Lzy724 opened this issue on Feb 18, 2010 · 19 posts
Letterworks posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 2:52 PM
As a vendor I CAN say the basicwiz has explained the problem for the most part, also include that the vendor may not have ALL of the morphs you think ar necessary (unusal but possible if the morphs came out after the item is well along in the creation process, we have to buy them just like you in order to fit the clothing). Another thing is the skill involved, believe it or not. Personally I think I make ok models but morphing an already created high poly figure I find quite hard and stressful and, just like the real world, some clothing just isn't appropriate for some body shapes so I tend to leave morphs out. It;s also a balance of time/cost vs profit, if it;s going to take weeks to make and rig the clothing and still more weeks to add all of those morphs it may not be worth it on a low priced product (believe it or not the prices that are common in the market place actually reflect very low pay per hour involved in creation which is why this is mostly a hobby driven market place... not complaining just stating a fact of life).
All of that said MorphCloth but D3D IS a wonderful tool generally speaking, It;s cut my personal stress by a lot allowing me to add more morphs in my products. Still there are some adjustments that are necessary for clothing to look "real". Since the app operates on math it has it;s limits. As a common example take breast morphs the program moves the verticies of a figure in direct proportion to the morph of the base figure so a morph for larger breast will affect the clothing but stretching the clothing directly over the breast leaving the area between them in it;ls original shape causing the so-called :bullet breast" effect, where as that area stretches from breast to breast in the real world. This can be adjusted in a modeling program and most vendors will do that to reflect the real world shape, if they have the time, while many users just let the clothing go in the name of ease. In some cases this same effect can cause clothing to pass thru itself in certain instances, the pregnant and beer belly morphs can cause this.
My point is when using MorphCloth or Wardrobe Wizard you may find you;ll still need a bit of hand adjustment or postwork to get a really good looking finished piece of artwork. Don;t let this deter you tho the app is still one of the best that you can add to your tool box.