bandolin opened this issue on Jan 06, 2009 · 74 posts
svdl posted Sun, 18 January 2009 at 4:26 PM
Hmm.
Making morphs can be quite time consuming - and tedious.
There are several tools that can help you create morphs. The quality of the resulting morphs varies.
There's The Tailor at DAZ (not free), which I do not recommend for non-subtle morphs - and bulking up Apollo is NOT a subtle morph! An advantage of The Tailor is that it will work on any figure - even a horse, if you would want to add the horse morphs to a saddle, for example
In general, the morph quality that The Tailor generates is unacceptable.
I have considered writing a sort of The Tailor myself, with better algorithms, but that would take an enormous amount of time.
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Netherworks has magnet-based clothing deformer kits. One kit per figure, and while the kits themselves are reasonably priced, the total amount of money involved gets bigger as you buy clothkits for more figures.
The quality of the morphs is generally a lot better than those of The Tailor, and you have the option to tweak every little bit, using extra magnets, before letting the software create the morph.
I use the Netherworks kits for my morphs.
I don't know if Netherworks has made a magnet kit for Apollo, though.
Then there's Wardrobe Wizard. .I don't have any experience with Wardrobe Wizard myself, but from what I've read here in the forums it is a very good product, and customer support is excellent.
Morphing by hand, using magnets - they're akin to 3DS Max FFD modifiers, except that the volume is always an ellipsoid, and that it uses an S-curve (editable) for falloff. A lot of work, especially if you're not used to magnets and their peculiarities yet.
And of course you can model the morphs yourself in 3DS Max. This method will give you the most control by far.
It's useful to have a morphed Apollo as a mannequin to model (morph) around. Means quite a lot of morphing and exporting Apollo (at least, exporting his legs, you don't need the rest).
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