I was catching up on my Email this morning, and I got the idea for a gag picture to make to send to a friend. The picture involves a row of restroom stalls seen from a low angle with a variety of heads craning out to peer at something happening in the foreground (mildly rowdy, non-sexual). To work, there would need to be several sets of legs showing beneath the stall separators with a variety of trousers and briefs around the calves and ankles in an ..er... "pants-down" state. I realize this can be done in post, but I normally prefer to avoid post. Then I started wondering if anyone had done clothes with those morphs, or if there was an established technique for it already, or even if it was possible to do something like that with a poseable conforming clothing item that will still follow poses, or would it require specially designed and grouped figures? I know the technical aspects will bug me unless I find out, even if I never actually make the gag-pic that started me wondering. Anyone ever try it? I imagine it could be done the same way as posable ankle-shackles, but I don't know if that's ever been done either (that stay aligned with the ankles thru a variety of poses, that is). As I said, and EmBareAssing question. S

If you have Poser 5 you could probably try it with dynamic cloth in the Cloth Room, couldn't you?

1.. Apply the trousers to the zeroed figure and then conform them.

2.. Pose the figure as required.

3.. Unconform the trousers, ie conform to "none".

4.. Change the parameter dials on the trousers to be something like the sample values below....

Body yScale 17%
yTran -0.262

hip yScale 377%
xRotate 3 degrees
xTran 0.001
yTran -0.659

Abdomen Scale 101%
yScale 465%
zScale 120%
Bend -7 degrees

Right Thigh yScale 53%

Right Shin yScale 50%

Left Thigh yScale 46%

Left Shin yScale 62%

This was rendered in Poser 4.03 with no postwork so that you could get a clear picture of the technique. With carefull postwork you could make the dropped trousers look considerably more lifelike by the carefull addition of some creases and highlights.

Hope that this has helped.....

;)

Thanks for the excellent suggestions - I appreciate the picture especially!

You're welcome. ;)