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My avatar, being a cat - so this is shocking - is sitting up and begging. ;)

Wow! This is amazing.  I am not sure what Voodoo you are working here but it looks fantastic.  You definite got me to sit up and take notice.  Now want to see me beg?  I want I want.  LOL  Looking forward to this plugin.  :D

Shirt looks very nice!

If I was doing this, I would probably make the pants dynamic cloth and the belt a prop (or else treat both as dynamic and use soft and hard groups on parts of the belt).   Add morphs to the belt if needed to make it fit.  Or else make it a conforming figure but for something like a belt that is not really needed.  Parent (as child) the pants to the figures hip.  I would then parent (as child) the belt to the figure but check the adopt bend of figure option as this will allow the belt to bend with abdomen and leg movements to some degree.  At first frame you would have everything zeroed like normal.  Skip a few frames to allow for simulation and pose my figure.  Adjust belt as needed to fit figure and allow for pants to fit underneath.  Go in the CR and set the pants for dynamics.  Manually select collision for just the body parts on my figure I want the pants to drape against, but include the belt so that I get collision with it.  If necessary set a few contraints at the waist on the pants, use soft groups on any belt loops you have.  

If two separate objects I personally would opt to work with them as such and would not try to combine them into a single hybrid clothing item.  :O)

You see dresses with long skirts as hybrids quite often.  The skirt portion is all made part of the hip group.  The dress is a conforming figure, except there are no leg/feet groups.  This allows you to sleek the hip group and convert it to dynamic cloth and use the simulator to drape the skirt.  If the group seams are weld so that body part groups are all one solid mesh (not sliced) than you do not need to constrain the top (waist) of the hip group.  If however the outfit was made by actually slicing the mesh so that each body part group is separate than you may need to constrain the top (waist) part of the skirt to keep the simulator from causing it to drift free from the abdomen section. 

You would do your pants the same way, make them all hip group.  Or else make the belt abdomen and put the dynamic parts in the hip group.  The mesh should be solid with the body part seams weld together so that the hip part does not come loose from the abdomen part.   If you use only all hip group you probably will have to constrain the top of the pants to keep them in place.

I have experimented with hybrid clothing.  It works okay, and is good for speeding up the posing and draping process since you only need to run the CR on the dynamic parts.  However, IMO, there is not that much to be gain in hybrid over full dynamic, except for maybe things like long full skirts where you can include morphs and body handles to help pose the skirt part - or else run the skirt part as dynamic cloth.   I suppose certain types of sleeves might also benefit.

-Rob

Here is a nice memorial - go to link on side for "Barbara Sindley"

http://www.broadusraines.com/index.cfm

I have heard the same.  She and I kept in touch for the longest, but sadly the correspondence grew further and further apart.  I know she was having some major health problems but I know none of the more recent details.  I do know I will miss her very much.

BM - Thanks Laurie for the wealth of info!  **
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Thanks Krisiti!   :O)

Got it! 

Thank you very much!

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That did the trick!  Thanks so much!

Have a great day! :O)

I ran into the same thing testing for a friend.  Changing ext from upper case to lower case solved the load issues. :O)