EClark1894 opened this issue on Mar 09, 2014 · 229 posts
Richard60 posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 8:53 AM
So since vendors can not make cloths that fit more than a single figure we have to dump Poser to support them? When I go to the store in real life I look for a size that fits. The reason 100's of people can wear the same shirt is because it is dynamic. That is it will fit any figure.
The following quote is from a product marketed at DAZ (Dynamic Classics for V6 and V5 supermodel):
"Dynamic Clothes flow with your character's shape in a more natural way. With conforming clothes, no matter what method you use, the more different from the base mesh your character is the more unnatural the clothes will fit. Particularly difficult fits are extreme shapes, where animated draping is recommended. Nothing fits more natural than dynamic clothes since these clothes don't fight geometry but flow with it creating exciting visual details with wrinkles and folds that dynamically change depending on your pose - enhancing realism in your renders"
So since even DAZ acknowledge the benefits of dynamics why don't the vendors support that method? Dynamic has been a part of Poser since version 5 and the lastest version has added bullet physics. I do know that DAZ does not have dynamics as part of the program and that it some type of hack/script add on and that each items has to be made by a single vendor/team. WHY?
V4 is popular however it has 100's of flaws that is a whole vendor support area providing fixes to those issues. Genesis 1 only lasted a year before being dumped. What assurance is there that Genesis 2 is all that? And even if Poser was to add native support what features of Poser would the current vendors add? The whole problem being they do not want to support more than a single figure/version odds are great they will not add any thing.
Currently the content I have for V4 is being used to convert to other figures. Basically I have turned V$ into a dress dummy that cloths are made on. This has the advantage for venders to make something that can be used by the vast number of users who refuse to upgrade and can be used by studio users also via the autofit.
Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13