karibousboutique opened this issue on Jul 11, 2009 · 15 posts
Letterworks posted Sat, 15 August 2009 at 5:37 PM
Skirts and sitting poses, probably one of the worst poses in poser!
There are a couple of ways to make a skirt fit a sitting figure and NONE of them work very well, or very easily. You can make a full sitting morph (i.e. shape the skirt to a sitting figure so it looks good and make it a dial in morph), THis probably is one of the best looking and easiest to use ways to do this, but it;s big drawback is it only ones if one uses the same sitting position that the morph was made for, anything else just doesn;t work.
On the other hand there are body handles that allow you to "pull" various parts of the skirt depending on how many handles are included and how they are set up to affect the skirt you can get a large variety of poses in the figure and the skirt, but it takes a lot more work and even then there are limits.
Lately I've been trying a combination of the two. Pose the figure, Use the built in body handles to get the skirt as close as possible, then add adjustment morphs to help poke thru and shape the sitting skirt for a better look. Still not a perfect or universal solution but the best looking I've made so far with out resorting to dynamics (which have their oen problems).
In the pictures above one thing you have to remember is that Vicky has JCMorphs that "balloon the front of her buttocks/tighs in a sitting position to stop the earlier "flat thigh" look caused by the shape of the inner and outer MatSphere zones. You'll probably need to make your own JCM;s to match the build in Vicky JCM's (I know the manetize poses are suposed to fix this but since the skirt only has a HIP and NOT the BUTTOCKS or THIGH zones the manetize poses (basically magnets made to follow magnets in vicky's CR2 groups), won;t work.