willdial posted at 2:36PM Sun, 08 December 2019 - #4372742

@Glitterati3D I have Hexagon 2.5. Also, I have done some sewing awhile ago. So MD doesn't look to overwhelming. Thanks for the tutorial. That will be helpful. Am I right in assuming that AutoGroupEditor will not chop up the geometry file like the Poser fitting room does?

Well AGE will group the file (chop it up) but it does it much better than Poser's Grouping tool. I am not a fan of Poser's grouping tool at all, but you may find it useful for your purposes. This is all a discussion of the process and the tools you use will be entirely up to you.

Hexagon is not a bad modeler. I know lots of folks have real trouble with it crashing, but when I started modeling, I started with it and it was very stable for me. I moved to Silo only because Hexagon's UV mapping is just so, so awful. Silo's UV mapping tools are more modern and useful, though I still cut my maps in Silo and do the base mapping then move to UVLayout. UVL is one of those tools you'll want to consider if you find you like doing this and can justify the expense. For me, the time savings in UVL are very worth the expense - it's Shift+B and go make a cup of coffee while UVL does it 's magic.

I agree with Movida that the Littlefox tutorials are very good, but she uses C4D (I think) as her modeler and it's sometimes hard to transfer that to Hexagon if you aren't very familiar with Hexagon's toolset. The JGreenlees Hexagon tutorials are very good if they are still out there on Youtube. They may be more helpful to you to start off. Personally, I think you just can't go wrong with Littlefox anything.

Remember to start simple and you can graduate to more and more complex as your skills increase.

I have nothing against MD and think it's a great tool if you want to do dynamic clothing. All of the quad meshes I have seen from MD, though, create some really unique grouping issues for conforming clothing.