VirtualWorldDynamics opened this issue on Jun 14, 2015 · 787 posts
VirtualWorldDynamics posted Sat, 05 March 2016 at 7:01 AM
@arcanevonoblivio : I confess I am also tired of waiting. To purchase via PayPal VWD, you can send the sum of 50 Euros on my PayPal email that is: virtualworlddynamics@gmail.com. The personal code is no longer required since the material protection has been removed.
I would still like to give some explanations of the stalemate surrounding the tests in Renderosity. I do not agree with these tests. so I'll give you the results that I received :
"""""""""""""""""""""""" I must rescind my initial recommendation. While this remains a great idea, and IS well thought out, it does not work reliably and is too fragile for casual use. The eventually successful cloth simulation ignored V4’s hands. They’re part of V4 and should have been honored.
WD Cloth & Hair from the tutorial that I didn’t find last time!!
This program seems to be very well thought out, with a great deal of care put into various contingencies. Its goal is to allow the animation & draping of Conforming clothing and both prop and conforming hair.
The tutorial is very dense and is a dry read! But it breaks very easily and is very difficult to use.
So…. Is this intended to let the clothing follow our model as she moves? The Tutorial NEVER Mentions Posing the model. I seem to recall the youtube things showed V4 Falling down.
While the Script is running, the Poser Libraries are locked out. So if I forgot to add something I have to kill the script and Start over. Since that frequently doesn’t work, have to completely start over.
Clothing doesn’t work as nicely as hair…
I’ve managed to make the majority of the options go away! See Figure 1 below.
Following the steps correctly the dress I was expecting to animate disappeared!
There are a lot of steps to allow the animation to work. If you accidently skip one (like a newbie would or someone trying to follow along from the youtube video or if you are multi-tasking). The program does not seem robust enough to recover.
Load V4
No body morphs are loaded.
Load 3D age’s Hot Girl IV, Off Shoulder Set Shorts, & the Strapless bra.
Pose V4
Import V4, the shorts & bra as collision objects. Import the Hot Girl shirt as the cloth.
Open the scene viewer. Find out the shirt has handles.
Open Hierarchy editor and hide the handles. The whole top disappears. In Poser.
Close Poser
Reload scene, remembering there are Invisible handles on the top that must be hidden via the hierarchy editor before I launch this program.
Load hair and pose in a mild pose at frame 30
Launch the VWD Cloth & Hair.
Set V4, the shorts & bra as collision objects and the shirt as the cloth. Ignore hair. We can’t add it now.
Hang the clothing on the figure via Vertices tools, Free edges, neighbors.
Remove unwanted edges
V4 is shown in the Scene viewer at an angle, so it’s un-necessarily hard to remove unwanted verts. Furthermore you have to get them all at once!!
Go to Vertices group
Click Nail to Collision.
I’m asked to validate my choice. This is not mentioned in the tutorial.
This time it sort of worked, but ignored V4’s hands. Poser’s simulation would not have ignored V4’s hands.
Following up with the hair did not give a good simulation, the hair came to rest at eyebrow level.
The VWD simulation never stopped.
There are no instructions on how to do Hair and clothing. What happens if I choose my Shirt (a cloth item in the first sim) as a collision item for the hair sim?
Restore all does not restore everything to just prior to the VWD animations, as it completely hides the shirt. It is not invisible in the Property menu, hidden in hierarchy or hidden by Hide figure. It is both visible in the Camera and Raytracing It claims to be in the scene, but cannot be seen or rendered. .
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If you are not in agreement with these tests and / or if you would like absolutely to see VWD in Renderosity, send messages to Jenn.
For now, the sale seems blocked. Personally, I continue to develop to improve VWD.
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