Has anyone been able to make vertical pleats?

What about shirt collars?

 

Never tried pleats.

Here is a shirt collar though, from a tux for Mike that I never actually finished:

Collars actually aren't that hard- lapels are hard!  ;-)

 

 

Jim you didn't make that with Virtual Fashion. That was what he was asking about.

There's no easy way to make collars in VF that I know of but I do think you can set a stiff material zone on a shirt neck and then a soft draping zone at the top that will drape down over the stiff zone. I haven't tried it yet but I have a vague idea of how to accomplish it.

 

As for pleats, the only way I can think of doing those with VF is by creating a displacement map for the OBJ file.

Yeah, it seems that for vertical pleats and collars, it will require some extra editing in a 3d program or something, which I am a complete beginner at, but I guess I will have to mess with it for a while.

Horizontal pleats are doable though, with VF's lack of numeric positioning, they are kinda hard. If there was a way to offset x amount it would be eaiser, but you have to do it by eye.

Opps, sorry, I misunderstood the question!

Are you "The" Jim Burton who made the high fashion models, Hollywood hair and the night life shoes?  I love all your stuff Jim, you're brilliant!

I downloaded the demo and found it difficult to make 'cuts' .  That might because it's a demo but it seemed very simple to use.   I want to read all the forums before I buy it because the cloth room should work very quickly, if it doesn't there's something wrong.  Actually I tried out Jessies' purple dress demo and I was impressed, it rendered in seconds!

Collars are do-able. It does take fiddling. The .obj loads in the cloth room with the collar standing straight up. So you have to fiddle with constrained bits until you get a render that falls the way you want and save that prop out again. Vertical Pleats? I think it could be done with a whole boatload of point editing, but I would not want to try it.

Oh, something I learned the hard way. If you make a lot of tiny cuts (spaghetti straps, say) it is better to cut the material group in VF, but don't delete it. Use a transparency map on the material group in Poser.  The render time goes way down. Poser chokes if there are too many missing polys.

Well I've only attempted it once but this particular shirt didn't work. I had the dark material zone set to be constrained so the top portion would drape down but it never would run in the sims.