RobZhena opened this issue on Dec 09, 2019 ยท 111 posts
RobZhena posted Wed, 20 July 2022 at 7:15 PM
The Bollywood dupatta prop is the antithesis of Bollywood because you have to pose the right arm downward to match the prop. In Bollywood films, the ladies generally dance with their arms raised. But there is a solution! I was converting Salwar Kameez for G8F to La Femme. It includes a "scarf" that has, like the dupatta, the arm lowered in the pre-dForce clothing item. But it is angled to the default G8F A-pose when zeroed, less "down" than the Bollywood prop.
It just so happened the I had been converting some G8M clothing for G2M in Poser that was not rigged in DS, and the only way to export an obj version was in the A-pose. I had the same problems in the fitting room that I had with the Harmonia arm ribbons discussed earlier in this threat. So I tried the same solution--I used the Strigoi demon wings to rig an intermediate version, using the left and right wing bases and arms 1. The rigged garment posed to G2M fine, but the result needed morph brush work because a divot emerged at the cellar-shoulder join and the arm itself sort of stretched. The morph brush sorted all that out.
So I used this to rig the Salwar Kameez dupatta and copied the morph that fit the result to G2M. That worked nicely.
You obviously get some distortion of the material, but if you apply one that is solid, you can't tell. So now I needed to rig it for La Femme. I chose the fur coat we created earlier in the thread using the morphing fantasy dress because it has morphs that will work to move the dupatta along side the rigging. I scaled the coat to line up with the dupatta and went to the fitting room, transferring the rigging from the left side of the coat, plus out to both shoulders.
The result is great. La Femme and dance in a Bollywood film with her arms in the air!
I tried rigging the included dupatta prop this way, but the arm is angled at too steep a downward slope. So, if you want to home brew a better Bollywood outfit, start converting!