New scene, load Judy standard pose, load dynamic cloth evening dress 1. Snaps to her just fine except for her legs. Pose her and the dress does not follow. This is nothing new I'm sure. My questions: 1. In order to get the dress to fit properly in the desired pose, (say leaning over a rail or sitting on a cube or something), are you suppose to start with the default pose, (standing, arms out), and let her bend in the animation to the desired pose? 2. When the dress is applied to Judy, her knees and a good portion of her legs stick thru the front of the dress. I have read that this causes havoc with the simulation run. How do you adjust the dress to cover the whole body without making it 140% in size. Might as well be wearing a curtain. 3. To maybe answer my own question, can I bend Judy any old way to get her beneath her dress and then do the simulation run to the desired pose? It's kinda frustrating because I have used the hi-res square as a cloth to blow in the wind and that was increadably easy. This dynamic dress stuff seems quite a stop up in complexity. I would expect cloth to be cloth. Thanks in advance for your time! Nebula

The one thing you might want to do is to open the Joint Editor (I'm going off of memory right now) and set the Zero Judy out. Again, I'm sorry for not using the specific names, but I'm at work and alas, no Poser. From what I've noticed all of the clothing was modeled for a Zero Posed character. I hope this at least points you in the right direction. ~ brent ~

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I have to admit I had similar confusions when I started using Poser 5. You have two options:-

ONE

• Pose Judy in frame one and in the cloth room set the drape frames to at least 30. Maybe higher if that doesn't produce good results.
• Select the "drape from zero pose" option.
• Calculate the simulation

TWO

• Load Judy and set at the zero pose in frame 1.
• Advance to frame 30 and set the pose.
• Now in the cloth room set your simulation to 30 frames.
• Leave drape frames at zero.
• Calculate the simulation.

Now a couple of notes. I tend to use method two because I have more control over the simulation. Sometimes the best look to the cloth appears at say frame 28 rather than 30. If I had opted to calculate all my cloth movement using "drape" I'd only have the start and end frames to work with. There are times when you'd want to add some frames at the end i.e. 30 frames of Judy getting into position, followed by 30 frames to allow the cloth to settle. Lastly I its not essential to start with Judy in the zero pose because the "drape from zero pose" takes care of it. However it gives me an initial indication that the dress fits correctly before I spend the time on the simulation.

You may find benefit in reviewing the tutorials that I have written regarding this. They are on the Curious Labs site or my own at the above address.

Thank you very much. I will give this a try. If I may ask, could you explain the Drape from Zero setting a little? As you explained in option one above, does this mean I can pose Judy any way I like and the Drape from Zero setting will adjust the dress from a "standing" position to the final? Thanks again both of you! Doug