Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The "Isn't Dynamic Cloth Brilliant" thread

RobynsVeil opened this issue on Jun 12, 2011 · 269 posts


RobynsVeil posted Sat, 06 August 2011 at 11:21 PM

When one works with dynamics, a modelling programme as an adjunct becomes more and more essential. I'm sure that for most the Poser group tool selector works just fine, but it doesn't like me. Get too close with my camera and it fails to select anything. In Blender, it's easy to do edge-loop selects and give then a vertex-group name. And Poser's happy to use it!

There are so many things to try once you're in the cloth room (cloth prop parented and sim setting done) - I'm referring to groups. This is still a very grey area... and I'm only doing constrained groups using Blender's polygroups. Wow, what a concept. Kobaltkween very patiently explained what she was sure was already a concept, because I'd mentioned this some time ago. For some reason, because I'd never been able to make use of Blender's polygroup (vertex group) feature in Poser when I was using Blender 2.49b: it wasn't something that even occured to me to try to use.
So, I'm very curious how to really take advantage of that whole dynamic groups thing.

Side note: the whole process from importing that mesh to setting it up in cloth-room/parenting/material assignment etc is quite laborious - would be cool if one could write macros (in Python, maybe?) to automate a lot of this stuff. My only regret with all this is my lack of time to be playing with it all: automation would be such a cool thing, here.

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