I've been seeing some artwork in the gallery (claps her hands in praise of most of it) and a lot of 'em have characters in there with wrinkles/folds in the clothes that the figures have on, and I was looking for perhaps a tutorial on how to do it, and haven't stumbled across anything yet. Could someone point me in the right direction? I thought perhaps they need to be done in a paint program, but wasn't really sure. Thanks! WG

Well, you can do some using bump maps. Beyond a certain point you either have to fiddle with the model or do it in post-production.

If you have Poser 4 you can use a wave or magnet deformer on the clothes to make the folds and wrinkles. I haven't played with either enough to be able to tell you how, but the manual has the basic instructions.

Amorphium is the best program around to "destroy" meshes with...probably it's best use. Their latest ads even promote it as such. It's fabulous for putting wrinkles in clothes, as well as sheet metal! I would suspect that alot of the wrinkles you see are the ones that come in the Poser 4 clothes from the start...a very nice touch.

To me, the king of all places where wrinkles are needed to loook realistic is an old-type hardhat diving suit (those old heavy canvas things with a copper helmet that looks like some sort of Victorian spacesuit.)

The poser4 Magnet deformers are good for making folds in anything. If I can make a good example I'll post it. I think I need an Idea of what folds you'd like to make though. -JH.

Thanks for all the tips, everyone! Jeff, the kind of wrinkles I had in mind are mostly in clothing, like.. if someone has on a long dress, and the wind is blowing, kinda catching the bottom of the dress and whipping it around, or the kind of wrinkles you'd get on a scarf if it were blowing in the wind. I'm going to have to crack open the P4 manual and learn about these magnets, I haven't touched them yet :) WG