Quote - Wow Liz that looks awesome! I'm happy too whenever anyone uses dynamic clothing. It has a look that you just can't get with conforming. And you can never get the drapes and folds with conformers that you get with it. It's about time it starts to catch on. It's nice to see someone who was shy about using it (as I was for the longest time) see just how nice it can look and that it's not nearly as difficult as they imagined.

I also feel that the more of us that make dynamic clothes, whether commercial or free, are doing our part to get it out there and get it more and more in use. It's also just not that difficult to make if you model at all and you can avoid all the rigging and everything that goes with that. I hope that someday everyone will be using dynamic clothes and that the only confomers we'll see are shoes...lol.

Laurie

I agree most emphatically, Laurie!

I seriously doubt that even the original developer of this dress could have envisioned this pose and this look:

Click on the image of the large version so you can see the tummy a bit better. What I ended up doing was adding a few edge-loops in the abdominal region, which allowed for smoother, more natural crinkling. This is a fairly high-poly dress anyway, so it only went from 1438kb (15322 faces) to 1578 kb (16739 faces).

I do love Blender. The button to click in Blender 2.57x is under Mesh Tools: Loop Cut and Slide. I Loop Cut, but didn't slide.

So, this odd little image (lots and lots to learn about lighting and all that, still!) shows just how incredibly versatile dynamic cloth is, even though the cloth started life as a conforming cloth item.

BTW, no one has said anything about whether I've breached any MP rules in showing this item in another state than its intended original purpose.

Breached MP rules
[  ] Yes
[  ] No

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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