I have been trying to figure out the contols for the Group Editor in the Fitting Room in Poser 10 Pro. The video tutorials at Smith-Micro don't mention it  (Fitting Room 101 and 201) and the manual has a very brief mention- almost a footnote on this sub-menu.  The menu is reached by clicking on the exclude radio button.

I have a figure in a long coat. If I press the fit button the coat shrinks to fit the figure. This is good for the top of the figure but not the bottom of the coat which is suppsed to hang loose and is now too small and close to the figure. From what I can gather, the exclude button should allow you to exclude the bottom of the coat by nullifying the underlying figure in that area.  However the controls are something of an enigma.  I have tried trial and error without much luck. I am beginning to understand the rest of the Fitting Room but this part has me confused.

Does anyone know of any tutorial or information on the use of this feature.

 Thanks for any help,

starboardtack 

Did you try to paint the Tighten W-Map for the shrinking?

In the fitting room menu, you can select the Tighten function.
There you can Paint how much a clothing item gets tightened to the underlying figure.
Click on the paint palette just behind the Weight dial to paint where the Tighten function has to do less Tightening.
Use the Substract brush to do so.

I just tested it and it works.

Hey that was your first post?

Welcome to the forum, and you can click on my examples to enlarge them.

Vilters, 

Thank you for the responce. I was trying to use the exclude button, but your method seems much better. Thanks for those images, they were worth the thousand words.

I have followed your instructions and have used the brush tool to paint the W map in the area to be effected, ( deleted ?)  but I am puzzeled how you were able to remove the section of the highlighted  dress.  After painting the Weight Map so that it was hghlighted, all that I coud think of doing next was to go to the  FIT button. After the render it was hard to tell if the highlighted selection had any change at all.  What is it that I am doing wrong ?

Thanks,

Starboardtack

When you first go in the Fitting room, load your clothing and load your figure as in my first screengrab, Mark the Checkbox "Display Weights" under the Dial.

All of the clothing should turn into "GREEN" dots, meaning that all of the clothing will be tightened completely.

Then open the Weightmap paint palette (the yellow box) in the screengrab.
Select the Substract tool, and "paint" => is removing weight for the tighten.

The GREEN will reduce to yellow-blue-red- and eventually dissapear completely.

That is the fall-off zone where you gradually reduce the "weight" of the tighten map, clearly visible in the middle of the dress.

In the second screengrab to show the result?

I unchecked the "Display weight" so that you could clearly see the result after the tightening.
Have a nice day.

Vilters,

Absolutely incredible.  It works, it works, it works.  Thank you for the help - I was lost in the wilderness. 

By switching back an forth from the Subtract to the Add buttons I was abke to fine tune the weight map... Before I was only erasing to the light yellow. This feature is well worth the upgrade.

Again thanks for yur time and patience.

Starboardtack