Hello, i've been fooling around with the poser cloth room lately, and i was wondering, how would i get a skirt to lie on the ground like in a curcular shape, while the characer is sitting down? what would i have to ajust?

I don't think any cloth room setting will do that.  My suggestion would be to use a prop to guide the cloth.  If this is a circular skirt like a cheerleader skirt or a poodle skirt, I would add a primitive plane to the scene, placed just a tiny bit above the ground, and centered under the doll.  In frame 1, scale the primitive plane to be just big enough to catch the draping skirt.  In a frame fairly close to the end, scale the primitive plane up maybe eight times bigger, or so.  When you run the animation, the primitive plane's expansion will pull the skirt outward.  Have some frames beyond the end of the primitive plane's expansion so that the skirt can rebound.  Remember to untick the primitive plane's visibility before rendering.

This is the closest demo I have in my album,   with the doll kneeling...

Some gal requested this as a birthday present.  I don't do much goth/vamp;  more of a TinkerBell-loving guy myself.

Another method which might work is to keyframe the doll to drop her legs through the floor, pose the legs during the frames where her legs are submerged, then raise her back up to sit on the floor.

ok, thank you very much!

Wow, the Arah?? I so love your work!! You do brilliant stuff... thanks so much for it.

Not sure I understand the question - I've found that your final result is only partly cloth-room behaviour dependent. Modelling is a huge part of it. Which puts you in a lot of control, since you do model.

Did you want the cloth wrinkled and folded, like Seachnasaigh's image, or more spread softly about, nice and smooth?

haha, thank you! blushes i have to say i really liked your moongown in the market place! in anycase, i was looking for something a but more softly spread, i'm trying several different styles now though, but if you have any tips, i'd be real happy to hear!

It is possible. Jim Burton managed to do it in this thread, but I have never tried it.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2517340&page=1

The thread is about using conforming skirts/dresses in the cloth room in Poser 6 and up.

The cool thing about P9 and PP2012 is all the props I use to push cloth around like seachnasaigh mentions, you can now leave them in the scene if you like and in the properties pallet click off "visiable in render" or words to that effect. You see them in preview, but they don't show up in the render. No more back and forth make visable-hide games! Major cool new feature. :thumbupboth:

Quote - haha, thank you! blushes i have to say i really liked your moongown in the market place! in anycase, i was looking for something a but more softly spread, i'm trying several different styles now though, but if you have any tips, i'd be real happy to hear!

Thanks for the compliment, but that's HeRaZa's. I've got some models I'm working on but so farI don't feel they're quite up to scratch for prime-time... lol

I take it this is for dynamic use, is that right? You might want to have your model start out with the dress standing out at the hem (kind-of like a tutu, I guess) and make the drape frames like only short and not at the beginning of the sim... that way, your figure can get into position before the dress sort-of drapes itself around her? Or am I totally off base?

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Thanks for the compliment, but that's HeRaZa's. I've got some models I'm working on but so farI don't feel they're quite up to scratch for prime-time... lol

I take it this is for dynamic use, is that right? You might want to have your model start out with the dress standing out at the hem (kind-of like a tutu, I guess) and make the drape frames like only short and not at the beginning of the sim... that way, your figure can get into position before the dress sort-of drapes itself around her? Or am I totally off base?

thanks very much, i guess it'll take some work, but it's funny the gown isn't yours, it's on your store page, but in any case,

Thank you very much for all the answers! i really appreciate it!