odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
bagoas posted Thu, 16 June 2011 at 12:28 PM
Quote - Many users have complained of the delaunay mesh output,
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on a futur update they will add the quad mesh option
The update with quad mashing was announed for May this year. They are silent since.
An issue I encountered when making clothing for Antonia (or any other popular Poser figure for that matter) with Marvelous Designer is that the base pose for clothing fitting is with the arms straight. pointing about 45 degrees down. (Take a real life shirt, lay it flat on the ground and look how the sleeves are directed.). So that is how the Antonia avatar needs to be posed for realistic results. Fitting clothing on an avatar in the usual 'arms horizontal' pose is possible of course, but you end up with too much cloth under the arm pits in normal poses. It you tailor the clothing to an avatar with the arms lowered and pose it to arms horizontal, you end up with folds on the shoulders (again like real clothing) but when you make this a conforming piece, the folds will stay (and grow!) when the arms are lowered.
Conclusion, quad meshing will not be a cure for all troubles. One step forward would be a 'MD-friendly' version of Antonia with arms lowered when in zero position.
Practical problem is that MD does not handle JCM's well. The Antonia avatar with lowered arms must be in .obj format.
Quote - Another problem is when you make something for two figure with a very different shape like V4 and Mavka, there not easy way to scale the patterns from one figure to another and the UV need to be reworked to match on the two outfits.
Just like real life clothing. Forget the scaling and morphing thing and keep to the cloth cutting analogon. If you cut a piece for a dress for Big Bertha from cloth that has, say, a two inch checkerboard pattern, it will have more squares on it than the same piece for a dress for Thin Lizzy. Some content cretors seem to think that Thin Lizzy's prefers 1" x 2" rectangles. She likes of course the 2x2" squares, but half as many as there are on Big Bertha's dress.
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