Ok we all know why I am asking but I need to know.

Obviously there are things that can be done to help set up dynamic cloth but since I have been gone for a bit :), I am curious what people expect to get.

Does this make any sense? Or is nooone doing this at all?

lol Now I don't mean a wish list, but what is the standard for a dynamic props free or otherwise?

Message edited on: 06/13/2005 04:53

I like to get dynamic clothing regularly, and without charge... Oh, you weren't asking that... :) I'd expect the simulation parameters and constrained (etc.) vertices to be set up. Opinions seem to differ on whether the clothing should be smart-propped or not, but I don't care either way. I wouldn't expect free or paid-for clothing to differ in how they were set up, but of course if a free item needed fixing myself I'd do it cheerfully. :)

Hmm. But doesn't the setup become timeline dependant.? If you provide it pre-set up how do you guarentee the setup is consistant with a static render oppose to an animation?

I may have misunderstood the basis of your question; but I'm ploughing on regardless. :) I don't have much experience of animating dynamic cloth to produce an animation, as opposed to animating to drape it for a still; but I'd expect that dynamic clothing that was set up for an animation would also function well in a static render. When making a still picture, the number of frames in the "pre-animation" would be important, but I don't think you can enforce that except by making suggestions in the readme. I haven't seen anything like that so far in dynamic clothing that I've bought or downloaded free.

I've downloaded a number of free dynamic clothing - you may want to check on svdl's free offerings as well as carib98. These are quite excellent and have had no problems using any of their items. :)

Attached Link: More anims on my website

http://mazak-grafikwelt.de/animation/PatioWalk_01.mpg

http://mazak-grafikwelt.de/animation/iloi_dyn_P5.mpg

http://mazak-grafikwelt.de/animation/iloi_dyn_final.mpg

Mazak

Dynamic cloth usually comes with readme's that explain the best way to set them up. How many frames, what collision parameters, etc.

Of course, if it just works "out of the box," with the standard 30-frame sim, that's a bonus.

I like dynamic clothing, but I is biased LOL, but please don't set them up, but parent them yes. The reason I say not to set them up with dynamic groups is that what you want affected may not be what I want effected in the simulation.

Maybe - but we're still at the stage where a lot of Poser users are new to dynamic clothing. If a garment is set up so that it can be used as it is, someone with more experience and specific requirements can easily change it.

I have never really gotten it to work LOL Well once .. mostly.

Hmm. Lots to think about. Thansk for the advice. I'll explore it some more.

I love dynamic clothing, but have no clue how to apply textures to them :( Some packages come with conforming as well as dynamic clothes, and textures apply to the conforming, but if I use the dynamic, I can't seem to apply the textures. So if a package comes with both, I would like instructions on how to apply the included textures.

I use svdl's dynamices a lot. Unfortunally for me, I only got V3 of the figuers he made dynamice clothes for. Fortunally for everyone else who made clothes for V3 :-) They are great to use. One of the reasons is, that you can make a piece of clothes looks like it's made of any kind of material. A silk kimono behaves different in wind than a leather coat do. M3 could use some dynamice clothes.

I'm not familiar with svdl. I have never seen that merchant name but then again I am not up on merchant info. Cool Animations!

Attached Link: http://www.planit3d.com/source/poser/p_dyn_clothes.html

svdl isn't a merchant. He makes freebies. Very nice blouses, skirts, dresses, tunics, etc. His stuff can be found at Planit3d.com.

Oh I see. Fun stuff. I Don't downlaod freebies usually, but the images look fantastic!