amlaborde opened this issue on Feb 27, 2003 ยท 6 posts
amlaborde posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 10:33 PM
Can anyone tell me the best program to create my own morph targets and clothes etc??? I am still pretty new to this 3D stuff and I have seen so many different programs, not sure which ones do what.
leather-guy posted Fri, 28 February 2003 at 12:30 AM
Attached Link: http://www.ev.ca/konan/downloads.htm
Konan's Extreme Morph is fairly inexpensive and specifically designed for creating morphs and deformations to existing meshes. Easy, straightforward interface, too (just "paint" to select the area you want to morph, then push and pull at it until it's what you want).
Sacred Rose posted Fri, 28 February 2003 at 6:47 AM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1123376
PhilC has provided several program links that could be of use to you for creating clothing and props etc. in the thread link above. Traveler has some tutorials for creating morphs etc in Rhino at RuntimeDNA.com They can be downloaded from the free area, but it requires site membership (which is free) http://www.runtimedna.com You can download a demo copy of Rhino from McNeel.com which is limited to 25-30 saves. The number of saves is quite adequate to learn the program as much as possible, before taking the final purchase plunge...you can start and restart as many times as you like, take care choosing files you feel you want to save if you are trying to conserve the number of saves you have available. http://www.mcneel.com For poser clothing/prop etc creation, the program you use is very much up to you. Rhino is quite popular. There is an amazing wealth of tutorials, shared knowledge and help available to get you started in most of the popular sites. Renderosity, RuntimeDNA, 3dCommune and PoserPros all have Rhino specific forums.
amlaborde posted Fri, 28 February 2003 at 6:55 AM
Thanks to everyone for all the links and tips. This should keep me busy for a while! I appreciate all of the help. I am going to go download the evaluation version of Rhino today and I will be sure to try out all of the other resources and let you know what I come up with.
fls13 posted Fri, 28 February 2003 at 11:04 AM
Blender is FREEWARE! You'll need to buy one of the books, about $50. The best deal in 3D. Best advice I can give to a novice.
Norbert posted Fri, 28 February 2003 at 11:21 AM
That eval version of Rhino 3 (and the full version, for that matter..) is not a very good example of how stable Rhino USED to be. Unfortunately, they released it before they should have. (guess they never heard about Curious Labs) You probably can't get yer mitts on an eval of Ver.2 any more, but if you can, try that so you'll know how good Ver.3 will hopefully become.