adp001 posted at 8:42 AM Mon, 3 October 2022 - #4445758

Briefly about your MD garments: I used Blender's "Tris To Quad" feature. Poser seems pretty happy with it (only tried two pieces though).

I'll give that a try. Could be quite useful for hems and such that effectively look like sequences of subdivided rectangles at reasonable particle distances. Not sure about surface interiors, though. These are irregular triangulations in MD on purpose, and just randomly removing some edge would not help too much, I imagine.

What is definitely needed are maps for the different areas. I've had very good experiences in the past with seams being at least marked as less stretchy, and a bit more sticky if necessary.

This sounds like you tried dynamic, not conforming? I don't know either very well, so it's a bit hard for me to guess.

Potentially I could cut and sew a narrow strip of fabric at each seam and give it a different material, which can then be turned into a dynamic group in Poser (at least I hope it can). In MD I can assign properties to the seam itself, but I think Poser wants a group of polys.

I had once started to make a script that assigns marked areas from image files to cloth parameters (UV map). This works, but would need an appropriate user interface for the normal user. And that's a lot of stupid typing just to get some widgets on the screen - I don't really like that much; although - or just because - I know wxPython inside out :)

One could indeed use the UV map for this because in MD, fabric seams translate into UV seams, and UVs are perfectly flat on each fabric piece (which you might already know, but just in case).

Last point: "bodice-dress.obj" has no content (0 vertices)

Oops, sorry about that! I was expecting to forget the weld button on export, but instead I forgot to select what to export. :-( Anyway, it's a very old piece that probably needs some work, so no big loss.

As I kind of mentioned before, I'd be happy to collaborate on some pieces with Poser fitting and/or cloth room experts who don't use/know MD. The ones I've put online were not made with Poser in mind, so if they're not ideal for it, I'd not be surprised.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.