How adept? Somewhat, I have created 1 morph with them, and fitted a clothing item to a morphed figure. So I've gotten the gist of how to use them.

How frequently do I use them? Not very, but then I haven't needed too that much.

Would I use them if only I knew how? I know a little bit, and would probably use them more if I knew more about them, but there are far too many tutorials that simply showcase the tool instead of giving a good reason to follow it, something like "How to use magnets to make a clothing morph so clothes fit morphed figure X" I think would help a larger number of people than "Here's the tool, this is what it does".

The second is more informative, but doesn't really give you a good reason to play around with the tool, regardless of how good the tutorial is. For example, Phil, your links are very informative, but are simply displays of what Poser's magnets are capable of. Now, a tutorial on how to use Poser's magnets to add the "ThighWide" morph to a pair of pants that don't have them, would in the end (IMHO) be more useful to people, and probably encourage them to try using magnets on other clothing items/morphs.

Not to knock them, because they're great clothes, but almost all of the clothing I've gotten from the merchant Xena have almost no morphs, meaning I have to pretty much use the default character body with the clothing. I'd love a tutorial that showed me how to use magnets to apply morphs to clothing so I could use that knowledge on her clothes.

Maybe it's not that we need a tutorial on what magnets do, but on how to use them in a useful manner.

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