I need some help please...

I have some dynamic kneelength pants (a hakama from Yangya, I think from poserclub.jp) for M4 that I just can't get to fit to him. The stay nicely on his hips, but the legs stand out to left and right, unmoving.

 

I removed the constrained parts on the pant legs, tried to rotate the pant until the sit right and create a constrained group then, so that it sticks to the right part of the leg, turned IK on M4 on and off, exported the pants as obj... nothing works.

 

Does anyone have a tip or a tutorial?

 

I also tried with choreographed groups on the pant leg, but Poser just doesn't work with me...

Can you post a picture? One of the model before simulation and then after simulation, so we can see what's going on. :)

Sure.

Here's the pic. I used default settings for this one, because all changes seemed to leave Poser unimpressed, too.

 

Ah.  Those pants seem to have a different starting pose than the zero.  I don't think you need to do anything with the pants.  Rather what you need to do is to spread Michael's legs out in the starting pose so they match the pants. :) Looks like something along the lines of 45 degrees.

Also make sure that "start draping from zero pose" in collision settings is unchecked.

And the reason they are created in a nonzero starting position  is the obvious balloon structure of the legs is too wide to drape properly without intersecting from a standard zero pose. As Grappos said, Pose M4 so that his legs are spread apart to match the pants at frame one.

Ok, I downloaded this item and there is indeed an included Starting Pose for M4 that you should apply to M4 at frame 1! It's in the PoseHisayan directory. Load this pose onto M4 at frame 1 and then your ending pose at your last frame of the simulation and you should be fine. The Pose Is called M4 and looks like this icon.

If you are wondering: yes, I feel stupid now. I should have thought of that... Anyway, it's almost right now, just a little pokethrough, but I'll get there.

Thank you!

Ah, thanks SteveJax. ^^ I'm just trying with the pose now. I downloaded this a while ago, and, okay, I don't think I would have thought to check the pose folder.

What a thoughtful creator. ^^

Glad I could help out. Dynamic clothing takes some getting used to but once you have the basics down, you'll find you enjoy the resulting finished renders a lot!