Here's that nightie / dress an 3 textures I made for it so far. I also added ruffles to the mesh, I will post pics of that as soon as I render them.

I like dynamic clothes but only if they have thickness and pockets, beltloops and modelled seams etc.

Love esther

I don't have a good texture for it yet, but here's the ruffled version with the blue dress texture.

I have to say that apart from the edges, that looks totally real!!!

Im liken it too.

Has anyone thought bout egyption theem?

You are doing some great stuff BionicRooster!

Quote - I made the textures 4096 x 4096, is that too big? Should I scale them down to 2048 x 2048?

Yes, scale the textures down.

I did scale all the textures down. even tho I'd like the lace to be a little higher def, it serves it's purpose. I may include the 4096 texture in a separate, add-on zip so people can download them if they want to use them. And as for Egyptian, I did that one Egyptian dress that's in my freebies. I'm not sure if you saw that or not from that other thread, that kind of brought about all this clothes making.

It looks very nice BR. :)

If you want them perfect, I'd make sure you add one more thing!

Seams!

Seams for the edges, seams wherever the fabric is sown together. It makes a huge difference for realism. Keep up the good work. I'll definitely pick some of your products up.

I think seams are what dynamic clothing makers find most difficult.

the material always looks like it's thin and has been cut with scissors.

Not necessarily. Just takes a different approach. :)

I use two different methods for my clothes.  For hires clothes I make some physical seams in the mesh, but only the seams that turn 'inwards', like the side of a shirt.   For edges and thicker seams, I use displacement maps, which works really well for thicker fabric too.

For constrained groups where the model stays put, like seams for underwear, I make real 3d seams too, works fine.

i found a way how to use simple seams on the cloth mesh without disaplcements.

i will open a thread and explain it.

looking forward top seeing what u have come up with.

Love esther

can you make a dynamic dress with bleats in it???

To some extent, sure.

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Looks absolutely brilliant. Good job. :)

Thank you Grappo :o) They're such a small detail that I kinda overlooked them, and they add so much more to the texture. As the saying goes, it's the small things the matter most.

This thread kinda turned into a WIP for this set, sorry all.

Grappo2000

I have to say that you make fine dynamic cloth sets for V4. Excellent craftmanship!

How about some nice sets for M3 or M4, as well?

funny I should be reading this thread. I am scouring the poser shops to find a nice dynamic men's T to put on V4 at the moment after she gets out of the shower.  As she's at M4's house and doesn't have her own clothes.

There was a very nice T that maybe acadia was making that had realistic thickened short sleeves and a very nice texture.  I can't find it though.

Love esther

Quote - Grappo2000

I have to say that you make fine dynamic cloth sets for V4. Excellent craftmanship!

How about some nice sets for M3 or M4, as well?

Can we include the robe idea for m4/ if you decide not to purchase poser2010?

BionicRooster:

Very nice dress.

*     "Can we include the robe idea "*

How about a towel set for males and females? (Over one shoulder, around the shoulders, around the chest, around the waist, turban around the head, one to drape over anything, etc.).  :)

LMK

Oh just the crumbs !!

It sounds fantastic.

Oh to have talent.

The towel set actually sounds like a good idea, I'll start making that as soon as I finish up this set. As for a robe, I made one for M4, it's just basic right now, but do you need buttons or anything that go down the front? Just wondering.

BionicRooster:

Actually, that robe, a little more full and with a lot of bottons down the front (and an edge seam that could be painted on)  would look like a Roman Catholic cassock. A white stepped collar could be part of the texture. Of course a cassock would also need sleeve cuffs. The belt (a cincture) would probably have to be separate.

http://www.liturgix.com/biz/images/cu403.jpg

lmk

Well I made it a little more full, and added buttons own the front. I need to work on the texture now.

Rooster It is amazing , you are going to have a lot of people after your work you have a real talent for 3D clothing, I just cannot wait for the final Robe this is so natural, the texture is quite smooth. The buttons for my animation, I only need three but I am sure the others will  be easy to disguise.

Don't tell me you made this with wings!

Well, of course I made this with Wings. It's all I have right now :o)

And the buttons are modeled into the mesh, so if you'd like a version with only 3, tell me where you want them and I will make a 3 button one. The color is still only a poser diffuse color. I am going to make the real texture with front seam sometime today.

Ok it's the three buttons at the top , they have a small seem that is the join.

If you look closely you may see its a sort of L shape from the collar.

As for the wings , in 6months you learnt this? I am astonished.

Pity you're not in the UK I might have signed up for a tuition.

However some times we can take on to much , I have just got the hang of fFinal Cut Express and am trying to work with Poser, so wings I am just tagging on.

Zee littlebrain cell over heating zum times!!

Hey BC, cool that you are using Wings, that's my weapon of choice too. :)

I think that the robe saibabameuk is wanting would be put on over the head, and thus would not need buttons all the way to its bottom seam.

This is looking very good.

LMK

Quote - I think that the robe saibabameuk is wanting would be put on over the head, and thus would not need buttons all the way to its bottom seam.

This is looking very good.

LMK

Hi yes your right on over the head, however your idea for a cassock is great . 

I have to say this is the most exciting thread that I have had the privilege to be part of.

It totally goes along with the philosophy that I believe in . The working family.

I need to make some adjustments to the mesh and fix some uv mapping issues, but you'll have your robe soon enuough :o)

Here's what it looks like with the 3 buttons.

Wow that looks nice. :) Any chance you will be making a fit for V4 when it's finished too? 

If not, I wouldn't mind making a similar robe for her myself. :)

I have no problem making a fit for V4, shouldn't be too hard once this one is done. Just need to get the uv map fixed and it'll be all good   :o)

Awesome. Good enough to pay for, definitely. 

This is very much like the kaftans worn by both men and women around the world. An open neck, unbottoned version would add to the versatility.

http://www.accessgambia.com/information/large/kaftans.jpg

LMK

Quote - I need to make some adjustments to the mesh and fix some uv mapping issues, but you'll have your robe soon enuough :o)

Here's what it looks like with the 3 buttons.

What can can I say!

The work is brilliant, you are a very talented artist.

Thank You so much

No, you haven't mentioned the story, but it's nice to know that it already had a purpose. Thanks for the compliment :o)  I am just happy to help out.

Excellent stuff.

The issues I've always had when using some dynamic stuff is figuring out the best poses/movement etc. to put the figure through in order to get the dynamics of the clothing item to drape properly.

What sort of techniques have been used in the examples here?

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I personally don't want more dynamic clothes, because for me they're more trouble than they're worth. But I know others feel differently, so to each his own. As long as conforming doesn't go away, the more variety the merrier. I wonder if there's some other category on the horizon that we haven't thought about.

The really good dynamic clothes I saw were made by LaurieA. I don't know what happened to them though.  She actually had thickness to the edges and folds of cloth at the ends of the sleeves.

Ice boy has made some nice looking clothes too but he doesn't have much thickness to the edges of his cloth as yet.

Love esther

Quote - I personally don't want more dynamic clothes, because for me they're more trouble than they're worth. But I know others feel differently, so to each his own. As long as conforming doesn't go away, the more variety the merrier. I wonder if there's some other category on the horizon that we haven't thought about.

I can't count how many times I've conformed something, only to find poke thru issues and have to fiddle with dials until I get it fixed. I just see dynamic clothes as a full solution to most my clothing probems, run the cloth sim, and I'm done. But like you said, to each his own. And Conforming clothes outnumber dynamics by far due to many people being intimidate by the cloth room. Conforming will never go away, I was just wanting to bring the numbers up to some well made dynamics. They look good, and the content creators can spend the time they would have spent rigging, into making their product that much better! And considering the price that a lot of clothes sell for, the time spent rigging seems like "lost time" when it comes to making money. It takes a lot of work to rig conforming clothes correctly, and then they're expected to sell items cheap due to the fierce market here. Do some looking around, Rendo is by far one of, if not THE cheapest site for buying 3D content. I'm not greedy, it's just that now that I am now making props and clothes, I see how much work goes into creating content. So, I can do nothing by appraise all the content creators for their hard work and dedication.

Quote - I don't have any secret technique, I just load pose on last frame and run my simulation. I usually fiddle around with the cloth settings here and there, and collision depth, but I don't do anything special. Here's a link that's been a huge help to me when using dynamic clothes. It's all the cloth room settings, and their effects. I'm not sure if all of you have stumbled upon this or not, as this is not the 1st time I've posted it.

So rather than setting the end pose on the final frame and moving to it from perhaps a neutral pose over 30 frames, you instead just load the end pose at frame 30? What is the figure doing in the preceeding frames?

Probably not understanding fully. Could you give a brief outline of what you do to get the pose and cloth simulation for your examples - the only examples I've done have followed the guide where you get the figure moving around and/or add other figures to push the cloth in the directions you want etc.

Yup, frame 1, I make no changes. I load the character and clothes, and leave frame 1 alone after that. Then I go to frame 30, and pose the character. In the cloth sim, Poser fills in the gaps and will move the figure from Pose (A) to Pose (B) and the clothes will follow along. It's easier then a lot of people think.

BR, you are awesome.

That is all.

Quote - BR, you are awesome.

Thank you CW :o)  I'm trying.

Here's the robe now. I redid the uvmapping and made a new texture. Still have a little more to do on the texture, but it's getting close to completion.

Sorry, a little "morning" humor here.... hehehe

Quote - Yup, frame 1, I make no changes. I load the character and clothes, and leave frame 1 alone after that. Then I go to frame 30, and pose the character. In the cloth sim, Poser fills in the gaps and will move the figure from Pose (A) to Pose (B) and the clothes will follow along. It's easier then a lot of people think.

Yep, that and if your character has a special morph, like muscles or curves or something else, the clothing will naturally form around that too. :)  I always include tutorial for this when I sell something. And I agree, it's very easy once  you get a hang of it.