Is there any way to change a dynamic piece into a conforming piece?

If there is...is there a tut anyhwere?

TIA

Message edited on: 10/28/2005 13:23

You can, but it's much, much harder than changing conforming into dynamic.

For a tutorial...look at the tutorials on modeling Poser clothing, like this one:

http://www.morphography.uk.vu/modtut1.html

Really, it would be a lot faster and easier to use them as dynamic.

Thanks Randym77...the reason I ask was for exporting out of Poser for a program that won't accept dynamic clothes. Maybe just better to pic something else..out of V3's massive closest LOL

Which program is it? Vue? You can use dynamic clothing in Vue, even without Mover. At least for still images.

Try running the sim, then exporting the clothing from the frame you want, as an OBJ.

Nope not Vue(works fine in Vue). I'm going to be buying Carrara5Pro in the next couple weeks, which at this point does not support dynamic clothes....so I was checking in advance of this purchase to see if there was a potential work around. Pretty stupid eh? LOL Thanks again :)

dlk30341, bought the C5 beta and have been playing with the Poser imports myself lately. The clothing issue you mention brings up an interesting idea. I think the reason dynamic clothing won't work is because C5 imports the OBJECT in it's orignal form. Now if you want to use the Poser figure and clothing in a still render you could run the dynamic clothing sim, save the clothing Object in it's final shape and import it that way in C5. Of course C5 won't import it with bones (as it does Poser figures) so your stuck with the clothing in that basic shape.. unless you use Carrara modeling rooms to change it. Just some wondering thoughts I wanted to mention. mike

Export the dynamic cloth (in it's final posed state) as an .obj file. You'll save yourself a load of time and effort doing that. Oops - cross posted, it's still a time saver for still images

Message edited on: 10/28/2005 17:16

Thanks guys...that's the answer I was hoping for...simple is best :)

Um....not to make this a Carrara thread, but via Transposer (bundled with C4pro and C5pro), a Poser animation will import with dynamic cloth simulation intact. So you can make a dynamic cloth run then import the PZ3 to Carrara for render. And of course you can always run an "export obj" from Poser to save out the current state of the dynamic cloth -- as you've said above.