Converting Rhiannon’s Waterfall Duster to La Femme

On Black Friday sale, Rhiannon’s Waterfall Duster looks like a good candidate for conversion. None of my character closets have something exactly like it. I’m going to use the fur coat I created in an earlier Tutorial because I added opening morphs to it. G8F outfits except sleeveless dresses require some pre-posing to match the standard T-pose before exporting. Buy and install the product the DAZ 3D Library for in DAZ Studio (DS). Load the garment in DS; unfortunately, only iray MATS are available. Apply one so you will link back to that folder when you click Browse in the Material Room. You will probably want to apply Poser native materials later); and export to a folder as an obj.

Be forewarned: Whether you start with a cr2 or an obj and pre-fit it to La Femme before sending it to the setup room, you will want to export an obj of whatever you do using built-in morphs or the morph brush (save as DressName LF or something similar). File menu/Export/Wavefront OBJ; select weld body part seams and include body part names. Reimport it and position it so that it perfectly fits LF. You do this because Poser will nullify all morphs when it creates the obj it uses in the Setup room.

Let’s convert Waterfall Duster in five minutes!

1. Load La Femme. Select LF Body and on the Properties tab, change Subdivision Levels Preview to zero (0). Load a dress obj. Import the obj you exported from DS. Position the garment so thet you will be able to fix all poke through easily with the morph brush. I turned the x scale down to 94.

2. The five minutes will depend on how handy you are with the morph brush! Select the duster obj, open the morph brush, and create a new morph, which I will call LF Fit. Pick La Femme as the goal. Use the tighten and loosen fit settings (sometimes flatten and smooth come in handy, too, like if a butt crease appears) to make the dress fit LF on one side and then mirror it to the other.

3. When you’re happy, export the modified duster obj as a Wavefront OBJ, which I will call Waterfall Duster LF. Make the obj that you morphed invisible, Import the obj you just created, and position it to fit LF. SAVE. For ease of experience, find your fur coat in the character library. With your new obj selected, click on the Setup tab. Accept the dialogue box. Click on the library icon in the far upper right. Double click on the fur coat. Auto group and copy the morphs. I want to force autogroup to attach all the verts to the left, right, and back skirt controls, so I deselect the front and center controls. The rigging for the dress will appear.

4. Click the Pose tab. Poser may spend a couple of minutes calculating everything and then return you to the Pose room. SAVE. Your new obj is gone, replaced by a rigged dress with skirt controls and morphs. It will now be called Fur Coat. Select the dress Body and click on the Properties tab. Click the name and put the one you want. I use a lot of donors, so I usually leave a short reference to the donor rig at the end of the name so I remember what I did. You are all done! Was it five minutes?

Here is the conformed duster with the left side open.