Quote - .... I have not purchased ANY clothing set for over 3 years now, because now I can make the clothing I want, for the figure I want to use, and customize it instantly.  ...

Yes, even with my desperate lack of sewing skill I now make most of the clothing for my figures in MD rather than buy it. I'd never buy any Poser dynamic clothes.

Load up everything you need in Poser - figure (in T-pose), stairs and any other props if they will affect the cloth draping, (eg. shoes). The stairs need to be in the scene, but don't need to be very close to the figure, give yourself room to fit the cloth to the avatar in MD, but not too far away that MD has to work too hard moving the morph target into position.

Export the whole lot to MD as an object (just like you would if it was the figure only), use as your avatar and drape your cloth on the t-posed figure.

Back in Poser set up your scene with the posed figure on the stairs (like Rosemaryr said, if the pose is quite a long way from the t-pose then you might need some stages in between). Export the whole lot again as an object and import to MD as your morph target. Hopefully you'll end up with everything beautifully draped on the stairs!

Attached pic. shows the figure and stairs set up as the original avatar so you can see I've left some distance between them to give myself room to work on the cloth in MD.

But anyhoo. Draping stuff on stairs works well in MD! :)

Actually,I wonder if the simulation runs too fast when the morph target loads. Is there a way to slow it down? Then maybe the cloth can catch up....

Quote - That's an issue of MD's calculations between the original and the morph target:  it runs a straight-line interpolation between the two points.  So, if an arm is down and to the left at the start, and is supposed to end up over the head on the right, MD will try to run the arm straight through the body to get there.  The work-around is to have a series of intermediate poses.  Gradual changes work best.

Yeah. That's how it used to work for me, but now even a fairly small change in pose sends the arms flying in and out insanely. I think it must have been one of the updates that did something weird, but I can't get it back to how it was. Ho hum.

Quote - > Quote - Only problem I have with MD(2) at the moment is it's developed an annoying habit of bunching the cloth up madly like it's full of springs. That didn't used to happen so I've got no idea what's going on. It makes it a lot more difficult to work with :(

try reinstalling MD and it should be ok then. I have that issue from time to time with odd quirks. But  reinstall always puts it right.

I tried that and going back to an earlier version so far as I remember and it didn't work unfortunately. :(

I just fired up MD to test and I've remembered what the problem is. It's the arms on loading the morph target. They turn into tiny little flat sticks and pull right into the body so there's no chance of the fabric being able to follow it properly and then they shoot back out again through the clothes and mess the draping up completely. I think that's why the cloth all bunches up. I'm sure it didn't always do this, but I don't remember it being something that happened after an update. That's why I haven't done anything with MD for a while, I'd forgotten it was so bad! I don't know if a setting that's changed or something. I did ask on the MD forums but didn't get a reply so I guess it's not a problem anyone else has. Hmmm.

Yes. What Rosemaryr said. Export the stairs into MD and drape the cloth there. I do that with all kinds of props and MD can handle it with no problem.

I love MD! I just wish I had a better idea of how real clothes work so that I could figure out how to make my patterns better. Unfortunately I have the real world sewing skills of a grapefruit and that really doesn't help to understand patterns!

Only problem I have with MD(2) at the moment is it's developed an annoying habit of bunching the cloth up madly like it's full of springs. That didn't used to happen so I've got no idea what's going on. It makes it a lot more difficult to work with :(

So I need to download the VSS prop as well? Ah, Ok. I thought the shaders were something separate so that's why I was having trouble finding them before.

Thanks again.

Ok. Thanks.

There were three that Anthanasius posted above that looked really good so those were the ones I was trying to find. I s'pose I could just copy the settings instead.

Thanks!

Is it the file VSSM4HairBooster.zip then? There didn't seem to be anything else to do with hair and I was looking for the ones that were shown earlier in the thread.

Can someone tell me where to find BagginsBill's hair shaders please? Looked on his Google site and can't see them anywhere.

It's a great idea. But I find the accent quite hard to understand. Could you possibly get people to speak a bit more slowly when they record these?

Many thanks, Nanette!

Quote - Tried to download the update, but the zip files are empty..... anyone else getting this?

Ignore this. Got them now.