Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Want to learn how to model clothing with open/close functionality

duanemoody opened this issue on Apr 14, 2015 · 21 posts


Glitterati3D posted Tue, 14 April 2015 at 4:45 PM

A dress shirt has buttons down the front along the placket that fasten and unfasten the shirt? The morphs in the modeler are opening each successive section?

Well, the shirt model itself serves no such function (fasten and unfasten) and is nothing more than an illusion. However, in order to make the morph you will have to export out the SHIRT, not the buttons. 

Now, in addition, I use a product for morph creation called PoseMorphLoader from colorcurvature.  In this case, I can pose the figure wearing the conformed shirt, export the shirt separately in the same pose and create morphs more easily.

PML exports the entire object with group names retained, but does not break apart at the groups when manipulating them into a morph in the modeler.

That's why you need the entire shirt exported - to ensure you are not moving the "chest" part so far afield of the "collar" part that the morph itself breaks the shirt into pieces.

Morphing is certainly not an easy task.  PML makes that task easier.