Quote - I got sidetracked clothes shopping in the marketplace last night so I didn't get around to your method until a couple of hours ago.  It's been 2 hours and it's still calculating. lol

Yeah, sometimes depending on the dress, it takes some time.

Quote - I've never messed with the animation frames because I don't do animations so I had no idea that pertained to anything else.  Can you explain why I had to move the slider to frame 15 and what exactly the frame slider does?

The reason you have to move the slider to an advanced frame is so that as the figure moves into it's pose, Poser calculates the clothing to follow that pose.  Since you set the pose at frame 15, the figure is completely posed at frame 15.  The next 15 frames are strictly for the clothing to adjust itself around the figure based on the collisions and other settings you have chosen.

You don't necessarily have to have 30 frames for the animation, often times it can be done with less. But for best results, more frames the better.

Quote - Also after it's done calculating do I have to set the pose again?

No.  After you have finished the calculation, go back to the pose room.  Render your image from the last frame.  If you want to add more things to the scene, you can do it at the last frame too.  Don't delete the other frames because you will undo what you just did :)

Quote - I just saw your clothing room tutorial thread so I'm going to check that out too.

Lots of great ideas and help in that thread. Hope you find it helpful.   Sorry if there are some broken links. RDNA redid their site and all of the links broke and I haven't gotten to fixing all of them. I have a number of bookmark threads, so it's time consuming and tedious. I just haven't felt up to taking the time to fix them yet.

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