I have a skin-tight costume  (basically a texture for the V4 catsuit) and I'd like to create a scene where the character wearing it has suffered an injury from a sharpened weapon (or a claw).

What is in your opinion the best method to create a realistic tear in the fabric?
For the actual hole I can simply apply a transmap to the material, but is there a way to simulate what happens on the edges? Loose fabric threads, ragged and lifted contours, and so on?

Giorgio

Probably a bump or displacement map will be best.

Still or animation?

Quote - Still or animation?

Definitely still. I want to show the final result, not the actual ripping.

Giorgio

If it's a matter of having ripped flaps hanging from the outfit if may be just as easy to model the rips in your modeller and parent them to the outfit as is needed.  Now, I've never done anything like that, but seems lie an easy way to go about doing it.

If you look in the RMP, Ravynsworld has a set of brushes with edge tears, use those to make a transmap in Photoshop or whatever, job done!!

I'm probably doing it wrong, but the one time I tried to import something with a hole in it into Poser, it filled the hole...;)

probably texture it in, I s'pose.. see above entries for better explanation...

If it's a still I'd do like thefixer says and postwork the rips in.

I'd do a render with the clothes showing, then do a second render with the clothes hidden.

Then in a 2d editor bring in both the renders... have the clothed render on top and nude render as background... then using a tattered/ripped brush I'd erase the clothes layer as I wanted.... the nude background keeps the skin underneath.

*If it's a still I'd do like thefixer says and postwork the rips in.

*Not what I meant, it'll look crap in post. You make a transmap in Photoshop and add it inside Poser, there's a tute on my web site for doing exactly this if you want to snag it!

Made by the same method TheFixer is suggesting here.

Very cool :)

The "two renders" method will give you the holes, but not as good as a transmap will (unless you paint in shadow effects). And even with the transmap method you'll still have to paint in the tatters and loose flaps of cloth.
I'd go for the dynamic cloth pathway, plus transmapping. That'll give you rips and tatters, including correct shadows.