philemot opened this issue on Jul 06, 2017 ยท 34 posts
tomyee posted Sat, 08 July 2017 at 12:18 AM
This is great news and I hope it leads to more Daz and Poser users adopting VWD! I agree about the learning curve, it still feels very intimidating to use because there's so much functionality to understand and then customize to the outfit that is to be simulated.
One idea I had was that maybe VWD should come with some standard wardrobe content? Similar to how when you buy Poser, you get a few gigabytes of free 3d models and figures and basic clothing so that the customer can start rendering right away. Then once they feel confident they can go on to learn about morph brushes, the material room, etc.
So VWD could include a basic business suit for a man, for a woman, a casual shirt and pants, a dress, shorts, socks, cape, tie, perhaps sci-fi outfit, or Victorian-era outfit, etc. The idea is that the wardrobe would be available for the new user to fit onto M4 or V4 or Genesis, Genesis2, 3, etc. simply by scaling it to match the body mesh. Then, each outfit would have a preset that VWD can load, and this will configure the outfit to simulate nicely (instead of making the user read the manual, try out various settings by guessing, retry again and again... the presets let them create a working, impressive simulation instantly without the long learning curve). One outfit might have 2 or more presets so that the user can load each one and see how changing the settings would make the outfit more stiff, or more silky...
Anyway, when there's no clothing included, then the user must begin learning VWD by relying on an item in their own clothing library. By including some standard clothes, it makes it easier to create a more universal tutorial, and gives the user a quick start to getting a working simulation.