Rex and Roxie have some new clothes for sale at Contentparadise. SmithMicro calims that the clothes are superconforming. I've heard the term before, but what makes something "superconforming and... more importantly,  how do they get that way?

Conforming clothes have skeletons that match the figure.

Super conforming clothes have morphs that follow the character.

Thats about it.

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Thanks Teyon. I get directed to this page so much, I've bookmarked it now.

:-)

So if I'm reading right, superconforming morphs follow the corresponding morphs on the figure. Does that mean that you can use Poser's "Copy Morphs" feature to create superconforming clothes?

You can get the morphs during the rigging.
In the setup room and in the fitting room you get the option to transfer the moprhs.

And in the drop down menu you can use the "Copy Morphs From" feature.

3 ways to get the morphs from the "donor figure" into your superconforming clothes.

They act the same as conforming clothes as they follow all bending, but they also follow all morphs you transferred or "copy from" the donor figure.

I'm having trouble distinguishing the actual morphs to transfer. Some of them don't really do anything and some of them aren't really morphs, like the sit control. So why are they listed?

My opinion.

For distribution?
Leave them out. it keeps the files smaller and they load faster and are more managable.
Secondly, let the end user decide what morphs he/she needs.

He/she has the same options to put them in if needed, or leave them out.

The term "SuperConforming" is pretty much dead when it comes to Poser 9 and higher.

SuperConforming had the direct references removed from the dials and partial dial rigging (head:1 to head, etc) so that you load the main figure first and with it selected, load the clothing.  This would make the clothing morphs automatically conform to the figure's when dialed on the figure.

It was basically a hack.

Now we set "Include morphs" in the clothes, under "When Conforming:" in the Body, save to the library, done.  The naming still must match the figure morphs/dials naming but no more text file hack editing.

It is silly now to say something is "SuperConforming" because if the above is ticked, EVERYTHING is Super-Conforming, given that the dials match. :P

They are a PITA to tweak because you can't do tweaks from the body, only individual zones.

oh you mean because of dial locking?  The designer could aleviate this by adding new master dials that are not matched.

So you'd have:

FBMMyBigBoobs (My Big Boobs) that controls PBMMyBigBoobs that is auto-matched.

and you'd add FBMTweakMyBigBoobs (Tweak My Big Boobs) that also controls PBMMyBigBoobs but doesn't exist in the main figure.

You could also make your own with Poser's teaching tool, if they aren't supplied.  If you are using a figure over and over, it might be worth taking the time to set that up for yourself for future projects. :)