Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Help Help Rigging a Shirt

kimbersue opened this issue on Oct 20, 2012 · 47 posts


DCArt posted Sat, 20 October 2012 at 12:09 PM

Quote - I have poser pro 2012 and if I click copy joint zone it is better but not perfect however I loose the shirt working with K4. I tried to go back and click conform to again but that takes it back to where I started.

I take it this means that it still isn't conforming correctly, and that the right arm is not fitting correctly.  I might be wrong, but it looks like the problem might be that the chest bone is off center (sort of looks that way from your "conformed" screen shot). It looks like it might be tilted toward the character's left arm (your right).

Another problem that I see is that it appears that you have some polygons that aren't grouped. The reason that I suspect this is because your skeleton included the bones for the shoulders, but didn't include the bones for the forearm.   The autogrouping was done before you deleted the bones, and there were probably some polygons that were automatically assigned to the forearm that no longer have a bone associated with it because you deleted those bones. It's most evident this is true if you look at the character's left arm, and you see an indented area near the end of the sleeve. Willing to bet those polygons are assigned to the forearm, and there is something similar going on with the other sleeve.

So you have one of two solutions: Either keep the forearm bones in (don't delete anything that has polygons assigned to it), or later modify your shirt groups so that the polygons that you now have assigned to the forearms are instead assigned to the shoulders. But then if you go the latter route, you'll have to modify the falloff zones of the shoulders.

Those are two areas that visually look suspicious. There ARE ways to fix these issues with the group editor and the joint editor, but will take a bit more 'splaining. 8-)

Welcome to the world of Poser rigging! There's a lot to it, but don't give up, every piece of clothing is a learning experience!

Quote - I closed poser and reopened it and when I click copy joint the shirt now moved with k4 but one sleeve still does not fit correctly. If I raise the arms the shirt comes apart where the auto groups in the set up room. The under arm comes a part and you can see k4 body.

Is this "pokethrough" type stuff, or is it that the seam is actually coming apart?