I have a 'Great kilt' dynamic prop for M4.... Kilt, but if you want just the skirt portion, that can be easily done. Again, dynamic, not rigged or textured. And, if you need a tartan pattern, there's this site

While I agree that for most users, the desire would be for smooth, uniformly distributed hair. But for certain long fur, or wool looks, the clumpiness setting is critical. I have also gone with the short, smooth look for fur, as well. The trick seems to be vastly increasing the hair density.

On a side note about your proposal to simplify the style options to certain human hair styles.

While this will be good for human hair, I found the 'Clumpiness' setting invaluable for furs. Matted wool, short matted bear fur, etc.
You can see a medium length style in the capelet of this figure; Noordman
And a longer version on these caps (second image) Fur caps for M4

Going back over my hair experiment files, it looks like the hair settings get saved as a part of the figure or prop that they are on, and not as a separate hair setting file. So... not functioning the way I (mistakenly) remembered. It would be nice if they could be saved separately, so they don't have to be copied by hand...

[As for the gravity being downwards with the minus sign... we use that same convention in Marvelous Designer... It just is the directional indicator for the vertical axis.]

A lot of years ago, I played with the hair room, and figured out how to save my own presets, for re-use on other items/figures. I do hope you can keep that functionality intact!

(I do hope they did a clean transfer of the licensing database, so current owners can get upgrades easily.... .............?)

Next stage of development of my pic. Worked on finalizing the cloth: increased the resolution of the mesh and did some controlled adjustments of the drape, in MD. In Poser, I have been working on the face.... using the control points plus the morph tool. The reference image is odd (and limiting, as there is no side profile to check against): the front part of the face looks long and narrow, but the jawline is soft and round. I still need to perfect that.

operaguy posted at 1:56AM Wed, 06 February 2019 - #4345445

xocxoc,

Paul and Paulina have the chips for facial expression.

In all the suggestions you made, the Texture Transformer V4 to La Femme is most critical, in my opinion. [sarcasm...] And V4 should receive a royalty every time one of her skins ends up on the new gal. [end sarcasm]

In this celebratory La Femme thread, I have no wish to start a "model war," so I'll not respond to the V4 points you made. Some here know there is a response, big time. That's all.

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Another vote for a TT option for LaFemme to use V4 skins! If I'm going to use LaFemme more than V4, I will want to use some of those great skins on her!

Work In Progress:
Still got a looooong way to go with this one.

Anyone interested in a fairly simple corset morph? Partially dialed, partially morph brushed. Breasts moved inwards and up, waist narrowed (obviously!), hipbone crests smoothed out. Basic slender figure suitable for almost any period clothing where corsets and girdles were supreme.

Well, I got through my Saturday chores sooner than expected, so the Poser ready outfit is now up at ShareCG. Look for my (same) user name, and this file is called "LaFemme Basic Tunic and Pants for Poser" (should be at the top of the gallery listing). I have a runtime ready folder with the items as smart-props, ready for the cloth room, as well as the vanilla tri-poly OBJs in the zip file as well, for those who like using other programs besides Poser.

operaguy posted at 8:50AM Sat, 02 February 2019 - #4345026

Rosemaryr, thank you for your intelligent reply and information.

The triangulated version of the two .obj's mesh would be most welcome, and I'll do an animation right away. It occurred to me I could just sub-divide, that would end up with triangles, but with a twice-as-heavy mesh, right?

I agree that tri-poly is better for the cloth room.

Thanks!

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Okay. It'll take about a day or so to get it up. (Got some other things planned for today, I'll have to work on it tonight.) It'll be listed as a Poser Cloth room item, with the same name, over at ShareCG.

Yes, you may use the obj files as you please.
Both the top model and the pants model are fully welded, thin meshes.
But they are in quad form, which is a bit better for modelers who like to make/alter the base mesh for their own garments, rather than tri-polys which are a bit better in cloth simulations. (Quads tend to 'bend' oddly in cloth simulations.)
I can add tri-poly versions, if you want to put the mesh into the Poser Cloth room, if you want. (I have done that in the past, but got a lot of questions about "do you have quad mesh?", so I thought I would preempt that point.)
You can check out the rest of my offerings over at ShareCG to see that I have done Poser-ready clothing for the Cloth room before.

The point in providing 'slopers' (a clothing term referring to a fitted garment, that is used as a base, to make alterations and design changes) was to let others add their own design style, and have their garments start from a fitted size and shape. It is why I jumped all over MD when it first came out: I wanted to make clothing that no-one else was making, for figures/shapes that no-one else was using.

The sloper set is now up in my ShareCG gallery... same user name there as here. (Can't give a direct link, sorry!)

Also included are two OBJ files for the top and pants, in a nice quad format, for those that like to make their clothing that way...

I should have a set of MD-made garment slopers fitted to LaFemme done by this weekend. I'll post here when they are uploaded.