Helvegr opened this issue on Feb 06, 2011 ยท 26 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 06 February 2011 at 2:41 PM
The V4 figure and it's peculiar ways of dealing with poke-through are from Daz, not the Poser makers. If it's less easy/obvious to use than Poser promises, you're blaming the wrong vendor.
V4 is a complicated figure with some extra and unique steps needed for conforming clothing - steps called "Magnetizing". Now maybe you did magentize the clothing, but if you didn't, then we start there. Perchance, did you skip reading the instructions that came with V4 and also those that came with the clothing? If so, maybe they have something to say on this topic.
The transparency of the hair in preview is, perhaps, intentional. Not knowing how that product is configured, I'm guessing that it renders just fine. Step 1 in working with 3D is realizing that the preview has limitations in the interest of speed for posing, and also has some deliberate features that may seem not perfectly sane. Did you render it?
Stockings poking through shoes means you have to adjust something. Arguably this is perhaps the fault of the stocking vendor, since I'm guessing that the stocking is not actually very tight against the foot.
Quite a few shoes made for Poser/Daz figures are modeled with a lot of extra space around the toes for this reason, but I think they look stupid - Minnie Mouse shoes.
Looks like the shoes you have there are nice and realistically shaped, but if you stop to think about what that means, you'll see the problem. The natural toe positions without shoes on are not correct with shoes on. And the real-life gap between leather and skin, where the stocking goes, is incredibly tiny and shaped like the interior of the shoe.
The foot and stocking vendors can supply morphs to change those shapes, or quite often the shoe vendor will supply one for the figure. But the shoe vendor cannot anticipate every stocking you might choose, and the technology of morphing requires that they actually have the product in order to develop a morph for it.
Shoe vendors can also supply magnets to deform foot parts.
Have you looked into whether the shoe vendor gave you foot poses, morphs, and/or magnets to deal with this? How about the stocking vendor? Are there any "readmes" that need reading? If you did read them but didn't understand or recognize the importance of something, tell us that part and we can help.
If no toe-fit tools came with the products you bought, you have to make your own. This is where you would need to use the main tool you bought - Poser; it has magnets and the morphing tool for you to make custom deformations as needed.
It's unfortunate that you read the word "easy" as meaning that CG is easy. It isn't easy at all. However, it is a lot easier with Poser than the way movie studios do it - which usually involves writing specialized programs. Hahah!
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