vincebagna opened this issue on Jun 19, 2007 · 58 posts
Letterworks posted Wed, 20 June 2007 at 11:25 AM
Vince
To elaborate a bit. I take the basic Poser figure, say V3, in poser and set one morph at a time to 1.0 then I exported the figure out with "weld vertices" checked. I saved all of these morphed tailor's dummies for later use. You should also do this for any JCMs incoperated in the figures. V4 and the G2 figures use magnitized morphs to automatically adjust clothing over SOME JCMs but there are still a few that need to be copied even in these figures. I saved all of these morphed dummies to CDs so I would have to do this each time, just pull up the needed morphed figure geometry.
Personally I like to use th whole figure when possible to get a feel for th over all effect. Like I said I;ve been trying to add some realism to the morphs, a wrinkle here or there to enhance the morphs by simulating th way real clothing would fall. There's no reason you have to do this tho.
One thing if you do delete parts of your figure be sure to keep all of the groups affected but the morphs. As they can cross group lines it's important to gettig the right look on your morphed clothing.
Once I have the morphs completed I use the AddMorph tool to install them. I'm sure there are other, similar programs, but I don;t know which they are. As fot the other tools in the tool set, I DO use most of them at one point or another.
Not to sound like an add but the most frequently used ones are ConCloth which will import the skeleton of a donor CR2 file into your clothing figure if the groups are the same, just like using Posers' Set-Up Room, BUT it strips out most of the unwanted information making for less hand editiing.
the FileRef routine is handy for checking and changing your texture or geometry pointers if you move your folders around. it also changes absolute and relative paths. Most stores require you to use relative paths for geometry and texture pointers.
And, of course the AddMorph routine I use ALL of the time.
For the price this has been one of the best purchases I've made as far as Poser utilities.
mike