According to the video (Bless JGreenlees' heart) I'm basically done. I'm supposed to fix the poke-through. I've gotten all of them... well except for that top piece in the front.

I imported at 500.00 so will export at .002

Also will hide the material as to not export MiL 3 with the pants...

Nice work.  Thanks for sharing the pix of your creation.

cheers,
dr geep
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Quote - Nice work.  Thanks for sharing the pix of your creation.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Any suggestions?

Suggestions? ...  from mois? ............. Nah, sorry, I don't have any expertise in that area. :biggrin:

Looks like Carara, no? :blink:

Geep I'll be calling on you when I want to rig. Hehe

I believe you did a thread awhile back titled, "Bones, bones, bones"

I want to add folds to the clothing. I believe to fix the top of the pants I have to add an edge. I'm looking over the video again to find out how to do so.

Quote - Suggestions? ...  from mois? ............. Nah, sorry, I don't have any expertise in that area. :biggrin:

Looks like Carara, no? :blink:

Oh I thought you knew how to model. Oops.

Actually it's Hexagon. Bought it like 2 days ago. I love it!

Da NSG had a Hex ....... but he lost it and now ...........  da Hex-a-gon.

Yes, I do modeling but I don't like to advertise it 'cuz, well, just 'cuz, ok?  ... ::b_cool:

Quote - Da NSG had a Hex ....... but he lost it and now ...........  da Hex-a-gon.

Yes, I do modeling but I don't like to advertise it 'cuz, well, just 'cuz, ok?  ... ::b_cool:

LOL ok. We'll keep it on the hush. Shhhh

If I wanted to make this conforming clothing, I'd have to buy PhilC's OBJ2CR2 right? No other way?

Perhaps, but that's probably the best way.

PhilC ????  You here? :blink:

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

 There's several other ways to make thngs conforming. But PhilC's is the one I would recommend anytime. I have several other programs that can create conforming clothes, but none of them as easily as Obj2Cr2.

I would suggest a taper at the top, they're very straight up and down at the moment. For the folds, I'd cheat and run it through the cloth room with a good lining constrained as to keep them from falling off L

Other than that? Perhaps extrude a single row of polygons along the leg to make a seam, but that's optional. You can do all that with displacement maps really.

Very nice first pants. I'd like to know how you started? And how you got  the neat loops on the bum?

I brought the top edges in as suggested.

Hmm, as far as the bum, other than smoothing...the only other thing I did was to select more than one vertical line (started from one side and went to the other) then Vertex Modeling---->Connect.

I'm following the video Pants tutorial by JGreenlees. Wonderful tut!

Trekkkiegrl---I can UV map in Hex? I won't need UVMapper? Is it easier?

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Very nice , the only qustion I have is at the waist in the first picture  about where the red arrow is the mesh goes a bit wonky. Is that deliberate or did it just happen ?

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Very nice , the only qustion I have is at the waist in the first picture  about where the red arrow is the mesh goes a bit wonky. Is that deliberate or did it just happen ?

Thanks! That was so NOT deliberate. LOL

Very nice start indeed! :)
Now you're going into modeling, you won't go back, trust me ;)

Very nice, well done. I have hardly opened mine.

Where is the tutorial you mentioned?

Thanks

Quote - Very nice start indeed! :)
Now you're going into modeling, you won't go back, trust me ;)

Thank You.

I sure won't! I'd love to model the "post-worked" blue jeans...fully. With pocket folds and everything. I don't see a lot of loose fitting jeans around.

Quote - Very nice, well done. I have hardly opened mine.

Where is the tutorial you mentioned?

Thanks

Hiya Anniebel!

Here ya go. Great tut! No way anyone can mess up following the simple steps in the video.

Modelling Pants (See post 2)
poserpros.daz3d.com/forums/viewtopic.php

Here's another one of hers:

Modelling A Simple Dress (Second Post from the bottom)
poserpros.daz3d.com/forums/viewtopic.php

Thanks for those.

Looking good, and thanks for the tut link. I would give advice but I have never made any clothes myself.  Looks like you're doing a good job to me.

cheers,

Mike.

What modeling advice are you wanting specifically?
I read something about poke throughs so I'll comment on that.

You need to be aware of the areas that are going to give you poke throughs while you are modeling, so you either adjust while modeling or apply a modifier/tool/etc that will expand your model to a safe distance from the figure...or go around and adjust by hand.
I would also grab the loop around the knee, turn on a soft selection and slightly contract those loops so the legs aren't perfectly straight.

Modeling is a learning curve. You want to know ahead of time where your trouble areas are, unfortunately you won't know that until you start modeling and making things, converting them into figures and trying them out.
Phil tool works, or just break your model up in your app and name correcrtly (lShin, rThigh, etc).
Every 3d app is different but they basically all do the same thing. You really need to explore your tools/modifiers/etc to know what each little crazy thing does to alter areas that are troublesome. It might be well worth your time to purchase a tutorial on your program and watch a pro as he/she works, this is where you will start to pick up on the small details.
You'll want to start adding extra loops around joint areas (knees, elbow,etc) to help with bending too, like you did in the groin area.

Looks great and keep up the good work.

Thanks for the advice DarkEdge. That's exactly what's missing---the loops around the Knees. Not quite sure as of yet how to do those and folds. You said I did it above. I don't know which step that was. I basically either molded a shape with all my arrows (Manipulation tools) or selected lines then connected them.

From modeling to conform what are the steps?

Am I right in thinking this?

1.)Model the clothes
2.)UV map the clothes
3.)Rig the clothes
4.)Make the CR2
5.)Texture the clothes

A five part process? In that order?

Adding loops and/or edges can be done in any app, you just need to figure out how and where that is in your app.

Your steps are just fine for creating clothes. My process is very simular, I save textures for the very end after all rigging is done and everything works in Poser just fine.

Good luck!

To create loops you need to look at spinquad.  It requires two adjacent polygons selected.  Its easier to try it than explain   :)

You can make a blank cr2 to use as the donor , then you dont need to rig at all. Just group your geometry and replace the obj file in the Blank cr2 with your geometry file name.   

You could clean up the top bit by some careful deletions and welds , but since its working move on .

Thanks.

Yeah I'm going to play around with this. I already know the steps to making pants (without having to watch the video) because I've played it so much. I'm going to try googling some things too.

I looked in the Hexagon forum over at Daz and it doesn't seem that alive. I'll post some inquiries over there too. I'm so used to asking and getting responses over here.

Quote - To create loops you need to look at spinquad.  It requires two adjacent polygons selected.  Its easier to try it than explain   :)

What/where's "spinquad"? I looked in my hexagon and I can't find anything named that. But perhaps I'm looking the wrong place?

This is how I'd do an extra set of vertices (don't mind the "pants" they were some I just whipped up from a box to show what I mean...)

Thanks Trekkkigirl!

I googled Spinquad and got a Lightwave forum.

Let me go try this out and post my results.

Brb.

Thanks so much.

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