Howdy,

I'm clueless when it comes to modeling progies, but I was wondering if there is a way to convert a conforming piece of clothing that has separate sections to a single mesh that can be used in the cloth room?  I thought I saw a thread once, but I can't find it now.  I know how to export the clothing and import it to Blender, but then I have NO idea on how to "weld?" the separates to one mesh.

Is it even possible?  I really am leaning towards going dynamic for most of my future needs, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if this is a repeat thread!

Thanks.

-Jeremy

Here is a good place to start:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=868

Thank you Basicwiz!  That was a great starting poing.  I knew I was missing something on export.  :)

in a very lot of cases, pieces of conforming cloth don't need any special treatment at all for use in the cloth room. So if you can give some more details...

Quote - in a very lot of cases, pieces of conforming cloth don't need any special treatment at all for use in the cloth room. So if you can give some more details...

For example:  A long sleeved shirt.  It'll have Chest, neck, hip, shoulder, forearm, etc (bone areas?)...in sections.  Then when simulated, break apart separate from the 'whole'.  I wuold like it to be all of the 'whole' without those sections that the cloth room thinks it needs to sime separately, thus breaking apart.

So far on the piece I have tested with, doing the import with the "Weld Identical Vertices" (From the tut Basicwiz linked) checked has done the trick.  Though I don't know if that is solution for every cloth item I will want to convert to dynamic in the future.

in general: Cloth Room is a real world simulator.

So pieces of cloth which in life are not stichted together (like: blouse, jacket, jeans, belt) should not / need not be in one continuous 3D mesh. The can be in the same sim.

Pieces of cloth which in life stick together and effect each others movements (like the chest, hip etc parts of one dress) must be in one continous mesh. If not - like in your example - the mesh need some repair - as you did. A lot of clothes are prepared well, by the way, and do not need further treatment.

Pieces of cloth which stick together but not affect each other mutually - like a thick lether belt and a piece of thin linen attached to it, the belt affects the linen but not the other way around - can be fixed as one mesh but can also be handled by putting the elements in different sims (here: belt first, then the linen with one row of vertices constraint to the belt).

As long as the mesh does not need improvement, parts of comforming clothes can be picked directly for clothification and do not need to be saved as props or whatever first.

All the best.

Quote - in a very lot of cases, pieces of conforming cloth don't need any special treatment at all for use in the cloth room. So if you can give some more details...

I use most conforming skirts and dresses in the cloth room with fairly good success "out of the box".  I just load the skirt and open the cloth room, clothify the hip of the dress/skirt and collide against the necessary parts of the figure/floor.  However, this only works from Poser 6 upwards.  With Poser 5, using conforming clothing in the cloth room using the clothify hip method, doesn't work.