I'm just learning poser (I have poser 5) and I created a figure, and wanted to add conforming clothes and some conforming hair to it. Now i'm finding for some odd reason the conforming clothing...dresses, shoes etc...is in with the figures. When I select the clothes it changes the figure. I want to add it to the figure I already have...Vikkie 3. Also I can't find the conforming hair...theres dynamic hair and wigs/skullcaps but I'm stuggling to find the kozaburo hair the mention in my book. (Practical poser) Any advice would be greatly appreciate as I continue to fumble through this software.

Don't double-click on clothes. Use the single arrow instead (pop-up reads "add to scene.") The majority of decent hair is a separate download -- fortunately, much of that is free (like Koz's hair).

I have a problem too. I conformed the clothes...but there are pieces of skin, toes, etc that pokes through. I tried to resize/rework the clothes, etc and it just messes everything up. Help? LS

Heh. Welcome to Poser! To understand what is happening, you first need to wrap your mind around the concept that Poser characters do not normally "wear" clothes. Instead they stand in the same spot as an animated suit of clothes. If both of them hold exactly the same pose, the Poser person looks like they are wearing the clothes. Problems happen when the Poser person bends further than the clothes can bend, or has bigger hips than the clothes (and haven't we all been there!) Even when everything appears proper, the clothing can't quite bend exactly the same, and the crease on the Poser person might not be the crease on the clothing. So this is what you do; first-off, most clothing will have morph dials to match many of the character morphs. If you must have a double-D chest, there is probably a dial in the shirt to make it a little more roomy. Next, sometimes something as simple as bending the arm or leg of the clothing a fraction will fix the problem. Next up on the solutions is to select those body parts that would by all rights be completely hidden by the clothes, and make them invisible (usually by either control-i options, or by the Heirarchy menu). If you can't get away with that, you might add a couple Magnets to the scene and gently drag the clothing into position. And if all else fails, render anyhow, bring it into PhotoShop or PSP and paint the offending flesh away. Or go with dynamic clothing (or bodyskins) -- but these have problems as well.

Depending on what part of the body is poking through you can make it invisable. On V3, if you have the morph loaded into her there are shoe fitting morphs, squeezes in the toes.

You click once on the clothing item, then click on the double checkmarks where it says Create new Figure.

Don't forget to select the clothing item, and conform it. Your character may poke through the clothing if the clothing doesn't have the proper morphs. If the clothing doesn't have the proper morphs, you need to insert them into the clothing. The Tailor would help with that job.

Sometimes the clothes just don't fit right. You can try hiding body parts like someone already said.

Your other solutions depend on the cause of the problem.

Message edited on: 02/23/2006 17:16

Message edited on: 02/23/2006 17:17

Should add, just in case -- make sure the clothing goes with that figure! You really won't get a good fit trying to make The Girl wear Miki clothes. And more subtly, there are characters that have revised joint settings and scaled limbs, that will no longer fit standard clothing for that figure.

Attached Link: http://www.digitalbabes2.com/

Attached Link: A Basic conforming Tute.