Thanks, Bopper. That's just what I have!

John

Hey, I know that this may sound silly, but does AGE and QuickConform work with Vista?

I just want to thank all of you guys for helping me out! This has been the most informative thread yet!

Quote - *Thanks for the help, letterworks. I'm currently using Poser 6 and somewhere ( I can't remember just where) I got the idea that I had to group the bones from V4 with my dress, but bopperthijs didn't mention this in any of his seven steps. Is this not a necessary step for clothes making?

*I mentioned that in step 6. I use Quickconform to make the cr2 file. with this little utility you can inject just the bones you need. which is faster then the setup-room because you don't have to delete the unneccesary bones. You can also add "ghost " bones like the neck bone which you will need for strapless tops or bikini tops.

best regards,

Bopper.

Well then, there's my trouble. lol There are still some things that I just don't understand yet. Terminology mostly.

So, in Step 5 I make the maps for the dress and then in Step 6 I add the bones and make the cr2 file. And I have Step 7 down to a tee. So Poser isn't really needed for grouping. I like that!!!

So I'm guessing that you import the obj into Autogroup-editor, make your groups and then export out the obj. Then import it into Quickconform to add the bones and make the cr2 and vuala...for the most part. HA! And then use Morphing Clothes to inject the wanted morphs. Cool!

Oh, does Quickconform make the cr2 file or do you need one that it can edit?

Quote - Remember if you are making clothing to distibute (either freestuff or commercially) you can just inject V4's rig including morphs etc, you need to use the developement rig.

The Development Rig? Is that the development tool by DAZ?
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/figure-setup-tools?item=8115&_m=d

Thanks for the help, letterworks. I'm currently using Poser 6 and somewhere ( I can't remember just where) I got the idea that I had to group the bones from V4 with my dress, but bopperthijs didn't mention this in any of his seven steps. Is this not a necessary step for clothes making?

Quote - To get back on the tool topic, I have seen no-one mentioning quick-conform, It's from the same author as autogroup editor, and works very fast. I haven't used it for other models, but for V4 it works very good. It's an auto-rigging tool that works outside poser.

This is my workflow for making conforming clothes for V4:

1. Export a zeroed obj-modelfile from Poser.
2. Import in Hexagon (scaled up a 100 times).
3. Model your clothing around the model
4. Export your clothing-obj (scaled down a 100 times)
5. Load in Autogroup-editor to make the grouping (you can delete the groups you don't want)
6. Load in quick-conform to make a cr2 file.
7. Use 3Ddimension's morphing clothes to import the morphs and JCM's you want.

IMHO this is the easiest and fastest way (besides the texturing, but that's another story) to make a fully rigged and conforming piece of clothing.
But it has it's limitations:
It works only for pants and shirts, dresses,skirts, shoes need more work.
Morphs are not always perfect, some rimples and peek-troughs will show up.

Just my €.002

best regards,

Bopper.

Sorry to interupt, but I'm interested in trying to make my own clothing as well and I found your list helpful and I had a question...or two. lol

So you're saying that, with 3Ddimension's morphing clothes, I can get peek-throughs, but can I fix or adjust them in Poser to remove the peek-throughs?

Well that explains a lot! LMAO! Poser 6 is what I have. HAHAHA!!!

Man, that was a good catch, PhilC. That also relieves a lot of frustration. Man...like 1000mg of Ibuprofen just kicked in. HA!

I found that I can add them individually in the Python Script window so I guess that's what I will continue to do until I finally upgrade.

There's no "Scripts" there. That's what I'm trying to tell you. LOL! And, yes, I did restart poser after installing them. Is there some kind of addon that I need for the scripts tool bar tab? And, no, there's no scriptsmenu folder in my poser unless it's not in the location noted above.

Yeah, I have the PhilC also, but I had just received some from Fugazi1968. They are all .py files. I did figure out that I could open the Python window and load them into script like that, but Fugazi1968 has them in his tool bar.

That worked out just perfect! Thanks for the tip, TrekkieGrrrl.

Thanks, stepson. I knew that it was something simple that I was overlooking. And thanks for Antonia. I'll try this figure very soon.

Really? So that's better than just adding the file to the Poser library section?

Cool! I'll give it a go Thanks!

Oh Holy Hell!

That's with Poser?

You know, maybe I'm doing something wrong; and I'm sure I am but, when I import my figure into P6 all I see is a dial bar (not soap) to the right of the screen but no figure. And if I do see the figure, it seems to be just a texture.

In my defence, I've only been using Poser for about 10 minutes. LOL!

Why is it not so simple?