Convert a dynamic dress

A lot of the clothing for La Femme is dynamic, so what if you want to convert it to conforming? I’ll use karanta's Ann dress for PE because I already bought it to convert to conforming.

1. Load La Femme and set her preview subd to zero in the properties tab. Load a dynamic dress prop. Some will load parented to LF, so select the prop and Object menu>Change Parent>Universe. [Image 1]

2. Follow the procedures above to fit the garment to LF with the morph brush, export an obj such as Ann Dress LF.obj, hide the prop, import the new obj, and match it to LF. [Image 2]

3. Find MFD LF in your Character library so you’re ready for the setup room. Go to the Setup room and use MFD as the donor rig. This time, deselect the center, left, and right skirt handles so the mesh will auto-group the skirt to front and back panels. [Image 3]

4. I want the front and back skirt handles to affect the mesh higher than usual because of the long slit, so using the right view camera, shift the front and back skirt handles up and reposition the tips to match the skirt. [Image 4]

5. Back to the Pose room, conform Ann dress to LF and rename it Ann Dress MFD in the properties panel. Save your new dress. [Image 5]

6. We have hacked the original PE dress mannequin to its limits, and at least for me, I got a weird protrusion when bending the back panel. [Image 6] Depending on the angle, that might not matter. Fortunately, however, the MFD morphs let you achieve the same effect without using the handle. [Image 7]