How do you turn off IK when you start up? I thought they were figure dependant. That would be an awsome sanity saver, for me. :)

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If your a member of DAZ club, the 'greek bath' comes with five statue poses, for a $1.99.

Acadia- I just upgraded to 6, i'll give the MFD-hybrid a try once i'm done cleaning house. I'll let you know here, probably tommorrow.

Well, i was waiting for three reasons to upgrade to 6 and after point lights and ambient occlusion the cloth room now make three. :) "Hold on to your lugnuts -- it's time for an overhaul!" -The Mask

Message edited on: 12/28/2005 14:31

It has been my experience as well that "welded" verts are atuomatically turn into choreographed, but Wardrobe Wizard might have affected this. As a trial I took the MFD and moved the choreographed group to default, and the sim results looked the same as the posted pic. Oh well, it was worth a shot. Observation, theory and experimentation are a tried a true method of learning. :)

My therory as to why the dress stretches, its because the dress hip does not have a choreographed group.

In Poser 5 cloth room, under the 'cloth groups' settings for [hip] click the 'edit choreographed group' button, you should see a ring of red dots around the top edge of the dress hip.

If not, then check the 'hide other objects button' on the 'group editor' to get a better view and zoom, pan, and rotate camera as neccissary (may want to switch to posing camera, so as not to lose the main's posistion). then select each of, and only, the top vetices of the dress hip. If you get any that you shouldn't, select the minus button on the 'group editor' and then select the vertices that don't belong. Click the plus button to start adding again. make sure to go all the way around.

When done, close the 'group editor', return camera, and run the simulation. If this doesn't work... well at least it's a good exercise for editing dynamic cloth groups. :)

Message edited on: 12/28/2005 12:03

Message edited on: 12/28/2005 12:04

Still relatively new to this, so i'm just doing stills right now, and i'm am still working with poser 5. (Gotta get P6 , if just for the point lights :) ) This is weird category: after rebooting my computer, the cloth simulation runs, but the "collide against" options now only includes 'figure 1' and 'body'. So when the sim runs the skirt drapes right through the legs. What am i missing? BTW, thanks Little_Dragon for the link to the thread, don't know how i missed that one.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but after all the posing is done you could just add a frame (or more) then set the "end frame" simulation setting to match. The cloth will continue to drape while the object remains in it's last position.

Ah, Thank you, all. I thought there might be an easy solution. Seems it helped others too. :)

Thank you, too Ajax. It amazing what you can do with the material's room. :)

Ahh,yes. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much, nruddock, for the mini-tutorial.

Thank you, that's what i thought but I can't get the effect I'm looking for. I want a snapshot of a figure appearing to fade from the bottom up. I tried pluging a P node (x=0,y=1,z=0) into a color ramp (white to black) and pluged that into the tranceparancy (set to 1)? However this fades too quickly and only the feet fade. Changing the y to a higher value only makes the fading transistion sharper not higher up on the figure. How do raise the overall fading height?