Is it possible to create clothes in Poser 8.
If so, please share with me how.

Clothes/etc etc  are made in 3D modeling programs.. not in poser 
Poser is the compilation / rendering program.

For the most part, Poser does not lend itself to easy clothes creation.  It does not meet the qualifications.  You would need 3rd party modeling programs to accomplish the best results.  Recommended freebies would be Wings3D, Blender, Truspace, etc.  If you are looking at apending money, Carrara, Hexagon, 3DMax, etc would fit the bill.

 What a shame !
What a wonderful idea , just the basics of course.

The only thing you can do with clothes in Poser is:

1. You can create an article of clothing in another modeling program like Blender, Wings, Hexagon, etc. and import that object into Poser and use as a piece of dynamic clothing, or...

2. You can create a clothing mesh in another modeling program like those mentioned above and then import into Poser and set up the joints, etc. and make a conforming item from that.

1 is the easiest, 2 takes some know-how and practice.

Laurie

Edit: sorry for the crosspost hborre ;o)

Quote - For the most part, Poser does not lend itself to easy clothes creation.  It does not meet the qualifications.  You would need 3rd party modelling programs to accomplish the best results.  Recommended freebies would be Wings3D, Blender, Truspace, etc.  If you are looking at apending money, Carrara, Hexagon, 3DMax, etc would fit the bill.

If free programmes can make the effort Poser could help its marketing by supplying extra software. (A rhetorical question), in some ways but why not!. I would like to stay in house with Poser not run around the internet looking for plugins.

Quote - > Quote - For the most part, Poser does not lend itself to easy clothes creation.  It does not meet the qualifications.  You would need 3rd party modelling programs to accomplish the best results.  Recommended freebies would be Wings3D, Blender, Truspace, etc.  If you are looking at apending money, Carrara, Hexagon, 3DMax, etc would fit the bill.

If free programmes can make the effort Poser could help its marketing by supplying extra software. (A rhetorical question), in some ways but why not!. I would like to stay in house with Poser not run around the internet looking for plugins.

But clothes and prop creation are not plugins....lol. It's been done with other, outside 3D modeling software (tailored for just such purposes) since Poser began ;o).

Poser can't be all things :o).

Laurie

Thank you! I have used blender in the past, so I will use that to try and make clothing for Poser.

Attached Link: http://www.drgeep.com/p4/clothing/clothing.htm

Make clothing using only Poser? ... Sure, why not ! ...

Just click the link above the image to find out how.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"

 As Geep has show us, it's possible to some degree, and PhilC has his Clothibng Creator suite that works entirely within Poser to make several types of clothes.

But it's not what Poser is meant to do. You can hack and coerce and prod it and make it do a lot of things it was never intended to do... but often (although not always!) the results are as could be expected. It's like using the coffee machine to cook pasta.. sure it can be done.. but.. well...

 sorry for all the typos btw. I'm in a moving train on a minuscule netbook.. makes typing quite a challenge LOL

The Clothing Designer suite of tools will enable you to create clothing within Poser. By way of an example cole4965 used it to very good effect when they made this set for the Renderosity store.

Marilee Outfit for V4

You can find out more about the Clothing Designer at this link:-
http://www.philc.net/BasicClothing_page1.php

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - For the most part, Poser does not lend itself to easy clothes creation.  It does not meet the qualifications.  You would need 3rd party modelling programs to accomplish the best results.  Recommended freebies would be Wings3D, Blender, Truspace, etc.  If you are looking at apending money, Carrara, Hexagon, 3DMax, etc would fit the bill.

If free programmes can make the effort Poser could help its marketing by supplying extra software. (A rhetorical question), in some ways but why not!. I would like to stay in house with Poser not run around the internet looking for plugins.

But clothes and prop creation are not plugins....lol. It's been done with other, outside 3D modeling software (tailored for just such purposes) since Poser began ;o).

Poser can't be all things :o).
Laurie

Hey
Perhaps it's a good idea to think back once there was stardust , then someone something perhaps ( God ) modelled it into you and me Laurie. "Only a small step for mankind"
And a tiny step for Poser to be able to make cloth into clothes.BB could I know.
My personal joke is in India they call me MR Poser, and Laurie I no practically know nothing about Poser, I just made a short 3 minute .mov in Poser and Imove.Which  millions will see.
It's the old story 100years ago or less Walt Disney would have ripped your hands off for Poser.
If you do not believe me see; http://www.saibaba.me.uk

If you do get a 3D modeling program, my website is strictly for creating clothes. We have many tutorials. Most are Hexagon tutorials but the method can be used in any polygonal modeler.

PhilC's fine content-creation products are brilliant additions to Poser, but they do not come with Poser... at least, not the current versions of Poser. Thus, his Clothing Designer Suite of tools is one of several external-to-Poser solutions for creating Poser.

I agree with Laurie: the name "Poser" says it all. It wasn't designed to be content-creation software. More recently, the lines have blurred, but you will all have to agree that the bulk of Poser content is still created in specialised software desgned to manipulate mesh on a completely different level to Poser.

Thank you for all of the replies.

PhilC's clothing creator program seems very good and I would buy it, but unfortunately I do not have the money at the moment.

I will have a look at SSAfam1's videos (thanks!) I am using blender so hopefully I will be able to implement the same techniques.

With Blender and Gimp you can make n texture any thing.

I'd also add that the tutorial available at DarkEdgeDesign.com is really excellent at explaining the process. $40, but well worth the money.

He uses 3dsMax, but any modeling program will do a similar job.