Hi All,

Just a quick visit here to show my first attempts with this excellent program.  I'm not too familiar with Poser and don't have many clothing items to choose from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I795sG4qYs&feature=youtu.be  

 Thanks guys, for keeping us up to date.

Now I need to get some conforming clothes other than the one or two I have! 

 Many thanks for all the work you've done to make this available at the earliest time you predicted.

If our simulations are as successful as the ones you've shown on YouTube then it is a great day for Poser! 

More wonderful animations!

Remember to enjoy the summer as well as completing this.

This is your YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=QgIIAQ%253D%253D&q=VirtualWorldDynamics

 Mark,

Thanks for removing my comment as requested.  If I can't be a nice guy in real life I can pretend to be on the Internet!

Hi Headwax,

Thanks for the comment.  My thread under my other stupid name over at Carrara was deleted because it was deemed to link to a commercial product - although when I started the thread there was no indication of that.  I had replied in appreciation of your and others' comments but maybe it was pulled before you got to see that.

It's straying from the topic of your thread here but I think it may be that the existing workflow using the Dyn-To_Morphs  script may work with the new Poser tool.  The new tool seems to export chosen scene elements to run a physics calculation and then sends the results back into the cloth room.  Maybe the existing script for loading the results to Carrara will work as usual from there.

But the developer seems skilled enough and willing to go further - which I would be delighted to see.  Imagine the difference such a plugin would make!

On another topic, my DAZ purchases are too few to help with the survey you've been running - only 28 items over 3 pages.  With the new physics tool for Poser, I'd buy much more conforming clothing readily. 

Since I'm unable to find a way to edit the post I made above, I wish to make it clear that my somewhat cynical remark was not meant to be taken literally and was not meant to cause offence to any particular individual or group of individuals.

I'm sure that venture capitalists take plenty of time to research products they consider investing in!  

 "...to this day DAZ is a venture capital controlled and run company."

Comment removed at authors request

  My opinion only, of course.

 Thanks for your reply, VirtualWorldDynamics.

 Naturally, I don't want to distract you from completing what you've begun so well!

Looking forward to trying out the demonstration but don't let our eagerness put you under excessive pressure!

Thanks for your reply, VirtualWorldDynamics.

I took a look at the types of files that Carrara can open and neither .dyn nor .PC2 are in the list.

I also looked at the process of using the python script so that I could remind myself of how it is used (I'm a fairly inexperienced Poser user).

In Poser, I go to 'File / run Python script...'  The script is on my Desktop.

After it runs and I save the scene, I have a .pz3 file and a .pmd file both with the same name (I don't really know what these mean!!)

When I open the .pz3 file in Carrara, The figure, with clothing appears and all the animation data is on the timeline, ready to render.  In my experiments, I used the Roxie figure and had problems with the fit of the clothes - as though morph adjustments to the figure were lost and the figure had gone back to its original state.  (Roxie isn't really compatible with Carrara, I believe).

I'm sure I was correct in believing that the Dyn_To_Morphs python script was distributed freely (I never steal software) but it is marked as copyright. Here is an excerpt from the script, which I hope is OK to post:

Dyn_to_Morphs

This script will take the selected prop and convert a cloth simulation

into a series of morphs. It will then turn off the dynamics, and apply

these morphs in the correct frames. The resulting file can be used in

Carrara, or a similar application, to mimic dynamic cloth.

(c) Copyright 2005 by Dale Tacy - 2005-11-14

 
Here are links to my experiments in using the script:

FurtherPoserDynamic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZIOpQ3DnNo

DynamicClothingPoserCarrara  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3DCea_EKg

In carrara, it is possible to carry out soft body draping of cloth using Bullet Physics but animated figures pass through the clothing.  Here are some Carrara drapes:

DrapesInCarrara  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQewwMXv78

To all:  As a Poser user as well as Carrara user, I hope I haven't interrupted the main topic too much.

Finally (!) I would be happy to wait for some help information to be prepared before using the trial. 

 Hello, VirtualWorldDynamics and Hello to everyone else - this is my first ever post at Renderosity.

 These cloth simulations are amazing and I hope to buy the software as soon as I can after it's release.

 I'm a Carrara user as well as using Poser 10 and have experimented a little with bringing cloth simulations from Poser to Carrara.

The process is as follows:  Run a simulation with the character going from pose to pose.

Run a free Python script called Dyn_To_Morphs.  I picked up this script a long time ago but don't remember where from!  The script exports the morphing cloth frame by frame, I believe.

Then save the scene as .pz3.

The pz3 scene can be opened in Carrara with the cloth animated.

 When I tried this process, I was only using a mesh I had made myself around the figure.  The script is for Dynamic Clothing. 

 I am hoping that this information may help in some way towards your wonderful simulations being used in Carrara.