perpetualrevision posted at 12:23 PM Mon, 28 February 2022 - #4435307

Thanks for this thread. I'd been wondering about that myself, esp. when I started seeing dForce outfits as freebies! @primorge: what you did with that nun outfit looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing :-)

It was the only decent "dynamic nun" uniform I could find. The item is all quads which isn't optimal for dynamics in Poser. Seems that diagonally bisected quads into tris works best with Poser dynamics. Quads have a tendency to produce folds that suffer from what Bagginsbill used to refer to as "Crystal Ridges" deformations. I subdivided the nun outfit as a prop and smoothed it a bit with external sculpting tools which helped to remedy the most obvious occurrences. Additionally I had to rearrange and resize the UVs because all of the UV shells of the outfit parts were on one tile. Not optimal for detailed textures. Also the outfit came only with a seamless bump tile, no textures, so I had to make some layer overlay fill textures. Anyway, it was a bit of work for an outfit, I think more thoughtfully constructed and unlayered conversions would be easier. I just did a render with the outfit, which doesn't feature the outfit predominantly, for a freebie promo image... shown below (Firefly). I think the outfit could use better maps and draping/fitting but it'll do in a pinch for distant full figure renders.

Thanks for the comment.