Hi, im new to poser and having a problem.  Im using the V3 model and i apply a skirt to her.  I do the "Conform to figure option, but when i pose the figure, the legs go right thru the skirt?? How did i stop that from happening?  Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

some clothes , particularly full skirts have body hamdles and morphs to move the skirts and dont conform completely when poseing the figure .

If you say what clothes you are using you may get a better answer .

There are 3 types of clothing:

Dynamic:  This is clothing that you use inside the Cloth room. It takes longer to work with and there is a bit of a learning curve, but it's not too bad, but the results are more appealing in that the clothing actually looks more natural instead of "posed and stiff".  I have included information about this type of clothing further down.

Confroming- Non Morphing:  This is clothing that you conform to a figure. The clothing is made to fit the base figure.  If you change the shape of the figure you will also have to refit the clothing, which isn't always easy if there aren't any corresponding body morphs in the clothing.  Plus posing a character in positions where they are not nearly upright is difficult.  But many prefer this type of clothing over dynamic.

Conforming-Morphing: This is the same as conforming-non morphing, only there are morph dials that you can turn that have corresponding body morphs for easier fitting.  This is the preferred type of conforming clothing because it's easier to fit.

Using a clothing item on a figure that it is meant to be used on, after you have added morphs and adjusted the shape of the body,  can be problematic because the clothes are made for the default figure shape and not the new morphed up shape. So the clothing no longer fits and you get parts of the body showing through the clothing after you add morphs and change the shape of the body.

There are programs that can help fit clothing from one figure to another, or even from the same figure to one that has been "morphed up" using their morph packages.

The Tailor, which can be bought here:
http://www.daz3d.com/shop.php?op=itemdetails&item=677

Wardrobe Wizard (I use this one and it's great). It can be purchased from PhilC's site here:
http://www.philc.net/WardrobeWizard.htm

Clothes Converter, which can be bought here:
http://www.daz3d.com/shop.php?op=itemdetails&item=3069&cat=131

Changing the pose of a figure will also affect the fit of the clothing, especially skirts and dresses.

Look in the parameter dials to see if there are any "morph" dials that you can turn to help adjust the pose of the skirt.

Like the actual figure, clothing has "body parts" IE: hip, thigh, buttocks etc.  Make the skirt the active item in the scene and select either "body" or a body part and look in the parameter dials to see if there are any morph dials that you can adjust.

If there aren't then you will have to rely on making some of the figure's body parts that would normally be hidden by the clothing, invisible. This is done in the parameter dial properties. Just select the part of the body you want to make invislble IE: left thigh, and uncheck "visible" in the parameter dial properties.

You can also use magnets to try to adjust the fit.

If you want to use conforming clothing (from the figure library) and have your figure sit, you will have to learn how to use magnets, or find a dress like the one in this link, that has a "Sit Skirt" Morph.**

[http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=1295

](http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=1295)** Here are some links to magnet tutorials:

http://www.philc.net/magTut1.swf

http://drgeep.com/p4/m1/m1.htm
http://drgeep.com/p4/m2/m2.htm
http://drgeep.com/p4/m3/m3.htm
http://drgeep.com/p4/m4/m4.htm

A great option for skirts and dresses are to use them in the cloth room.

Dynamic Clothing (more information):

A nice thing about dynamic clothing is that you can easily use clothing on various figures.Here are some tutorials on how to use dynamic clothing in the cloth room:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2665209

http://www.philc.net/CC_sampleVideo.htm

http://www.poserfashion.net/howvic3dress1.htm

http://drgeep.com/p5/cr/cr.htm

Here are some links to some great FREE dynamic clothing:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=mapps

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=svdlhttp://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=Stegy

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=carib98

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=teyikung

It's also possible to make conforming clothing into dynamic clothing:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=868

And it's possible to take a conforming outfit and work with it in the cloth room so that parts of it act dynamic.  I do this technique all of the time now. However it only works in Poser 6 and Poser 7. For some reason Poser 5 is not able to do it.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2517340&page=1

that is a lot of goog information!! thanks a lot!