Diesel59 opened this issue on Aug 17, 2002 ยท 7 posts
bloodsong posted Sun, 18 August 2002 at 6:01 AM
Attached Link: http://www.3dmenagerie.com/
heyas; i have a theory that you can... almost do this. maybe. actually, i was thinking more of putting male clothing on female and vice versa, or millenium clothing on p4 standard... but my theory goes like this: you load your target figure, then the clothing that doesn't fit on it. make sure the target figure is zeroed out completely, so you're sure the clothing adjustments are making it fit on. start by scaling the BODY. okay, so if you're putting the male tux on the baby, scale it way down, etc etc. do NOT position the body! this doesn't work, the body position is always zeroed on conforming. then work on the hip. now position the clothing with the hip. rotate the hip (um, i didn't check if body rotation is saved, but my bet is you need to rotate the hip, not the body). once you have the two main controllers (body and hip) generally positioning everything, then work on scaling and posing (yes, pose the bits!) so they fit on the target figure. okay, like the gorilla leans forward from the hip (actually, it might not in the zeroed position, but let's pretend) so bend the abdomen forward. once you get everything nudged around into place and fitting, memorize the figure. it's on the figure menu. at this point you probably also want to save to the library, in case anything really bad happens.... then hold your breath and conform the clothing to the figure. since scaling bits tends to mess up the jointing, i'm going to guess that this method ain't gonna work so hot as you pose the target figure. i'm thinking you can get a good approximation with similar figures (ie: male to female or millenium to p4), but the further you stray from similarities of the original figure to your new target figure, the worse the result is going to be. the alternative, of course, is to do all the tweaking to the clothing, then export that as a new obj, and use my 'painlessly easy conforming clothing' tutorial to conform it to your new figure. check for the tutorial on the 3d menagerie goodies pages.