Cujo31 opened this issue on Sep 24, 2001 ยท 4 posts
leather-guy posted Mon, 24 September 2001 at 4:50 PM
Hi! Nice progress on the dress! The little rolls on the shoulder thingies are called (of all things) shoulder-rolls, (or rolled eppaulettes) - to make one, you might try taking the standard poser prop torus (the doughnut thingy), applying a magnet or two, to deform, & texture map then just imbed thenm in her shoulders. The necklace-collar looks like it might be an ultra short ruffed collar. I think I saw one in freestuff, but can't recall if it was here or elsewhere. :-( If you can't find one, you could try painting it on her throat texture, and applying a bmpmap, or playing around with another torus, texture, bmpmap, & embed in the neck. The collar is a bit more involved, if you can't do anything with deforming & trans-mapping a prop cube (flatten it aout, curve & recurve with magnets, etc), I think I saw a similar style on a sorceress robe in freestuff. (again, apologies, I can't recall where, & I'm working today, so I can't search.) The hat is a style commonly called an elizabethan flatcap. (The overall costume appears to be based on an elizabethian middle class, or lower court garb by the way) Should be simple enough to construct again out of basic Poser props. take 2 spheres one for the brim, one for the crown, scale & flatten (the brim more than the crown), apply magnets, deformers, etc & a texture to give the impression of soft suede or velvet material. Usually has a broach on one side, & perhaps a feather or plume. Add a color coordinated belt, pouch, dagger, & gloves at the belt (I think that's what I see at her belt under her Right arm), and you've got a complete outfit! (gloves are avail in freestuff, you can flatten & deform to hang over the belt) This is a pretty much quick-&-dirty way of finishing the outfit using the tools in poser itself, so of course if you want something more commercial, or professional, you'd need to do pretty much the same thing in a 3D progam with exporting, grouping, uvmapping, etc. (plenty of tutorials. here & elsewhere for applying magnets, deformers, etc.) Hope you find some of this useful. It's a really cool outfit, I'd love to see it when done, or get a copy if you post it available. :-) Good Luck! Happy Rendering!