- Open a scene with La Femme. You will be using the morph brush, so change her preview subd to zero (0). Conform MFD PE to LF. Select MFD PE and copy joint zones from LF. We will be creating a new LF Fit morph, but you already now have a rigged MFD that can be a donor without modification for sleeveless or short-sleeve gowns. [Image 17] It can rig long dresses with long sleeves with small adjustments to the forearms in the setup room and the need to pose the forearms on the converted dress (a small sacrifice! See the next tutorial on using MFD LF as a donor rig in the Setup room, which also tackles shorter skirts.). [Image 17]
- Use the morph brush on one side to loosen (mainly backside) and tighten (bosom, neck, abdomen) MFD. [Note: If you use the INJ morph mentioned below, you don’t have to do this yourself.] The sleeves will not be not properly aligned when conformed, however. You can pose the sleeves—a simple enough procedure that you don’t need to save a pose file to use every time. I live with that on some of my early conversions for Pauline before I discovered the Evolution Rosetta Stone. When finished with one side, mirror the morphs to the other and clean up any little problems. I pushed the morph brush hard to move the sleeves on MFD to match LF, and my freebie for this tutorial includes an INJ morph for my LF. [Image 18]
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Select MFD’s body. Go to the Properties tab, click on the name, and change it to MFD LF. Add the V4 MFD to the scene. Select MFD LF and copy morphs from the V4 version. Delete the V4 dress. Save your new garment as an LF clothing item. When you conform it in future, you will have to set the LF Fit morph on the Body parameters tab to 1.
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Here is La Femme using pose 10 of Tempting La Femme. There’s some real hip twist in the pose, which requires playing with the thighs and skirt controls. There was some poke-through on the forearms and a tiny bit on the shoulder. I moved the MFD forearms slightly on the Z axis and used the dress’s morphs to eliminate the poke-through. [Image 20.]
I’m really glad I did this tutorial because my new version, MFD LF 2.0, is better than the first iteration. The crushing is gone, and it occurs to me that making LF’s abdomen invisible would also eliminate the poke-through when bending. Duh.
