boudicca36 opened this issue on Mar 17, 2016 ยท 103 posts
boudicca36 posted Mon, 04 July 2016 at 11:10 AM
As some may or not know, yes I was working on a tutorial for legacy rigging in D/S for a short dress on V4. Apparently the best result end result so far is not going to please very many people. So I have been trying all the ways I know of to make handles for a short skirt and that also is not working out very well in D/S4.6. Not that I ever mastered "handles", but still ... if time is money might want to consider the tutorials sold here for rigging in Poser.
One can stop at the hip bone and make all the poses, shapes required for the skirt as morphs. Rather time consuming but it's possible. One canNOT change the name of the bones on the Figure Setup Tab. One canNOT change the rigging of the thigh bones [what I was using to make handles] except to raise them straight up to the "belt" height [belt = hip]. On the Scene Tab one can rename the thigh bones to be "handles".
Next rock on the road: the "reset pose" feature, resets the figures to poses they do not load at. QuickStart and the BlankV4 have their feet flat. Translation into the clothing means the skirt goes wonky in the usual places. In checking the Parameters "per bone", there are a couple of settings for each "thigh/handle" bone that need to be manually reset to "0" for the clothing to look right. Those options tend to be not there when the item is "fit to" the figure.
So I tried another idea ... to model the dress "adjusted" and that's a no-go too. It then stays in the wrong place. BUT I noticed that the "shortcut" some of us use from time to time in Hexagon to get a unit together without loosing the uvmaps does NOT work with clothing items. The top was okay [chest and abdomen welded in D/S]. But the skirt was not [because the 2 "thighs" are not going to weld to each other as the rigging doesn't work that way]. This can be good news or bad depending upon what type of outfit one is designing. Bad if you're wanting a nice skirt. Good if you're wanting a skirt that will split in half down the middle ... but there is still then the front "V" issue to deal with ... maybe another day ... in the meantime, the fastest way to deal with those is to reload the item.