Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Anyone had problems with Tailor?

queri opened this issue on Apr 08, 2002 ยท 30 posts


FishNose posted Tue, 09 April 2002 at 3:03 AM

In Tailor I don't set any values for any MT's, I leave them at default - remember that the Tailor automatically sets all channels to 0 or 100% respectively when it loads the figure. A look at the figure in the 3D window tells you that. You don't need to dial anything. But the MTs are all there, just zeroed for the time being. Then when creating the new dress MTs, Tailor automatically assumes the value 1 for each MT. 1. I chose individual MTs, like small shape changes in a single body part and made dress MTs out of them the usual way, one by one, and saved. 2. Then I chose an MT 'Alice' in one body part (any one) and right clicked it to choose all MTs with the same name. It told me 15 had been chosen. I clicked 'Morphs selected are like one Body Morph', then 'Create MTs in the dress', and went for a cup of coffee. Five or ten minutes later it was done and it all works - perfectly! Repeat process for 'Brigit', SMMV, etc. As simple as that. The only things out of about 160 MT's (took me all day!) that didn't work was MT's that make VERY small changes - Tailor says it can't find any vertices to change, because it doesn't think the MT does enough to affect the dress vertices in any way, and it creates no MTs at all. I didn't always agree, but that's another story. So my conclusion is, it can't possibly be the textures - they have NO significance at all. A tex cannot possibly affect an MT. It might be that you run out of RAM of course, that might affect things, I dunno. I have 892MB RAM which is a lot. I bet Tailor uses lots of RAM to load and analyse all those vertices. And props (including magnets!) are out. And be sure to save the figure ALONE, don't include any other figures, not even the EMC fixer/Null or anything. Quite honestly, I think the Tailor is the most amazing piece of work. It's like a dream, making all my clothes fit PERFECTLY! I mean, getting the catsuit to fit skin tight in spite of hundreds of MTs being set, with transparency, etc, and no breakthrough - it's what I've been in need of ever since I bought Poser years ago. Of course, if I change Vicki's pose more than a little, she breaks though some place but a few dials and some fiddling and I'm OK again. But it's really skin tight! The creator of Tailor need to polish up the interface, fix his English (!) and so on, but IMO the thing REALLY WORKS. Best of luck! :] FishNose