You have lost me too!

I work with dynamic cloth a lot. I really love it.  I learned how to do it from a tutorial at Poser Fashion, and every tutorial that I have seen since that one has said to pose your figure mid way through the frame.

What I do with dynamic clothing is as follows:

1. Load figure
2. Add dynamic dress
3. Add props, hair etc. (then hide it all)
4. Go to frame 15 (I use 30 frames). Set pose
5. Go back to frame 1.
6. Go to cloth room
7. New Simulation
8. Clothify dress
9. Collide against figure
   -  uncheck head, hands, feet if you don't need those)

• uncheck "start draping from zero pose)

10. Save the file
11. Calculate Simulation.

What got me so messed up that I had to create this thread was because I was trying to follow Jim Burton's instructions in his readme for Dynamic Glamour at Daz.  I bought that sometime last year but never used any of the poses that came with the dress but the other night decided to try them. I ran into trouble and contacted him for help. 

He pointed out that his poses work differently than most because of the way he does the cloth room. So I looked at the readme and he starts his pose in frame 1.

I tried it and it messed up everything and gave me the results as I posted in the first post.

Here is what his readme says, It doesn't work for me at all.

Quote - **1. Open Victoria III or Stepahine Petite or Aiko in Poser 6, apply the correct Sheath Prop to the figure. *
2. Apply one of the included Poses to the figure.
3. If using the "Floor Crawl" or "Sitting Pretty Pose", set the Sitting Preset in the dress to 1.0 in Frame 1, it should be 0.0 in Frame 16.  If desired, apply the other morphs in the same manner.
4. If desired, set any body morphs in the figure in Frame 16 (should be 0.0 in Frame 1).
*5. Open the Cloth room, start a new simulation, set End Frame to 16. *
6. Click on the "Clothify" button, pick the sheath prop *
7. Click on the "Collide Against" button, click on the Figure box near the top. *
8. Click on the "Ignore Hand" and "Ignore Feet" buttons in the same menu.
9. I'd suggest the following setting in this menu:
*             Collision Offset    0.500          Collision Depth    0.500
*             Static Friction      0.300          Dynamic Friction 0.100
10. Click on the "Edit Soft Decorated Group" button, and in the menu , click "Add Material", add the "Soft Decorated" material. *
11. Click on the "Calculate Simulation" button.  This will take several minutes.

Eventually after dozens of tries trying to use his method, the figure ended up in the pose, but the top of the dress didn't fit properly...actually, not at all.  I'm not even sure it moved with  the figure and the collar was out in front of her chest instead of around her neck. I'm sure it had something to do with the "Edit Soft Decorated Group." I picked the group from the drop down as indicated and then closed the grouping window. That's when the problems with the neckline started.

I eventually reset my poser preferences for the whole program and tried again from scratch. I started with the figure posed in frame 1, did all the rest of his instructions, and again, the same thing.... wonky simulation and the top of the dress not being posed with the figure.

I had to reset my preferences again because  "Edit Soft Decorated Group" was always ishowing as the active one n the drop down regardless of whether I tried a new scene from scratch and even when I changed it it reverted back to that choice, even though it wasn't the one there at the very beginning.

This time when  I redid the scene from scratch again, I started with the pose at frame 15 and didn't do the "Edit Soft Decorated Group", and the simulation went along just fine from beginning to end with the figure ending up in the desired pose and the dress fitting her.

I've never heard of that "Edit Soft Decorated Group" before, but it totally messed everything up for me.

Can someone tell me how you work with that "Edit Soft Decorated Group"?  What do I do after I pick it from the drop down menu for the clothing?  Do I have to do anything with the other buttons in that window or just close it like I was doing?

For those who start their pose in frame 1, can you please list the steps you do for that? IE: like I listed mine above? Because when I start a pose in frame 1 it doesn't work for me.

How can you have a pose in frame 1 and have your figure default pose in the same frame?

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