EldritchCellar posted at 5:54PM Thu, 11 June 2020 - #4391552

Deecey posted at 5:00PM Thu, 11 June 2020 - #4391531

CHK2033 posted at 1:50PM Thu, 11 June 2020 - #4391518

(makes you wonder why didnt they just model it themselves)

Modeling is, at best, 25% of the time involved to create a product. The rest of the work, especially rigging and creating compatible body morphs that follow the target character's morphs, is far more labor intensive. Refitting older clothing to a newer model and making it "commercial quality" is a lot more involved than taking something into the fitting room and generating the fit and morphs automatically.

OT, but while you are here Deecey, perhaps you could answer a quick question about La Femme and conformers.

I've been purchasing your conforming outfits and those of Rhiannon for La Femme, and also a lot of dynamics by Karanta. I'd like to model a specific kind of Corset for her, as a conformer. I'm figuring the modeling aspect will be pretty fun. I enjoy modeling and it would (as far as I know) just be a personal project. It would be a Billy T style corset that just covers La femme's upper hips and just below the breasts, lots of eyelets and cords. I've made conformers in the past but I'm wondering, wouldn't something like the corset I have in mind just require transfer of the relevant parts of the donor and copying over, say, your body kit morphs? And creation of adjustment morphs. Are there JCMs in La Femme's abdomen region I'll have to worry about?

The only parts that have JCMs associated with them are the shoulders and thighs. The shoulder JCMs also affect the collars and chest (and sometimes the neck, depending on the model), and the thigh JCMs also affect the hip and can also extend up to the waist. So the corset you intend on making MAY be affected by the thigh JCMs a tad. Something to keep in mind.

The thing that will be a bugger (talking from experience, because I like to do laced up stuff myself) ... are the details in the lacing and the eyelets in the corset. All those fiddly doo dads can be a challenge to smooth out when you exercise the joint rotations, and you'll probably need to get into smoothing out the bulge maps also. If at all possible, you might find it easier if you model the eyelets into the corset itself, rather than have them floating on the surface. The modeling will be a little more challenging that way, but there will be less risk of having the eyelets get buried in the corset, especially with the bend forward/bend backward rotations on the abdomen and waist.

I hope that helps! 8-)