prixat posted at 12:10PM Tue, 28 November 2017 - #4318786

Will doing all that save a lot of time eventually?

Or will it always be quicker to just use different figures with the fitting room etc.?

It's a time saver in the long run if you're willing to invest the time up front to make it all work. Because when you do it once you don't have to worry about it again. You'd have to go through and fit all your clothing to the mesh and all its shapes too of course, but again, once you do it once you don't have to worry about it later except for adding fits to any new clothing you buy - which you would be doing anyway if you wanted that new clothing to work on a figure it wasn't designed for. So I guess it depends on your point of view and workflow as to which approach would be easier.

To give a point of reference - it took me about an hour to convert all my generation 3 figures into one mesh and match the centers to the morph. That was using the PML script to load all the characters as morphs. Again I didn't go back and do any cleanup on the rigging and I didn't add any of the shaping morphs that each of those figures originally came with. So in all, once you get a rythm going, to get a fully functioning figure would probably take a couple dedicated days to do a clean job of it.