I'm in need of a little help. When I create a skeleton and try to conform any clothes to it, the clothes become distored. Am I doing something wrong here? If so, what am I missing?

Most all of the clothes are sized for the nude male/female figure. There are differences between the skeletons and nude figures that prevent the clothes from conforming the way you'd expect. Try using a nude figure to put the clothes onto, then replace the figure with a skeleton while keeping all props etc. attached. This might work. Any recommendations from the more technically adept here?

Some oldtimer mentioned earlier that the skeleton was based on the P2 geometry so conforming will not work properly. MadRed, good idea but when you replace the figure with the skeleton, won't the conformed clothes revert to their default pose? I think he will will have to Parent & pose. Or, perhaps DigitalArtist might try placing an invisible P4 figure in the scene and parent BOTH the skeleton and the clothes to the invisible figure?

Hmm, I like the last idea. Anyway, I mostly use my skeletons as-is, or give them some armor and weapons. This is an interesting one tho.

heya; i was visiting ghost effects and perusing the old/test images, and there is one called 'messed up conform' or somesuch, that has a male nude attempting to conform to a skeleton figure. well, the short of it is, it don't work. :) i dont think parenting the skeleton and clothes to a p4 figure would work either, unfortunately. :/ using posed clothing should be okay, i expect.

They're not perfect but they come close:

Having been stuck with Poser 2 for a LONG time now, I can say that that IS the P2 skeleton (I'd hoped that later versions had a better skeleton, but no such luck). It will conform rather nicely with the P2 characters, though, if you don't mind losing the ability to have facial expressions and poseable fingers.