I have V3, and I acquired the Abyssal Queen package. All in P6
Got the clothing to conform, got the hang of the magnets, a little bit....

Some of the morphs on the dress are confusing me! Perhaps someone could help me out?

For example, using the dress top, it has breast morphs, but they're different from the character morphs... So, I thought, okay, I'll make the character body parts invisible, like you do with some other peek through's.
Well, when I do that, the part of the character that is supposed to be visible disappears too.

So, now I'm puzzled, is there something in conforming to the figure that will conform the dress morph settings to the character morph settings?  Do I need to tweak and turn the dials till it 'looks right'. I'm not relishing doing this, as it seems it will take forever.
Is there another way that I don't know about yet?

Just a word of caution, I'm new enough to poser that some of the terminology still confuses me somewhat. I did read through the documentation and some tutorials, but it hasn't all sunk in, like I said, I think it's the terminology. Is there such a thing as Poser Dictionary?

Any help, suggestions, tutorial links, or tutorial search buzzwords would be very helpful and much appreciated.  

i think you need to decide whether you want the dress to conform to the breast size you want ,or whether you want the breasts to conform to the dress size(default) now reducing the character breasts to fit the dress is not too hard, just find which dial/dials reduce and keep tweaking till there is no poke through! the other way is more fun but trickier, making the dress fit the character breast size you have, again just patient dial spinning until you get the desired effect, if the dress has only four (or whatever) breast morph dials, then use those dials on you character, they should be called the same, i have that dress so will check for you later (my machine is rendering at the mo though!!)

an easy way to "remove" bodyparts peeping trough is to make those polygons invisible: - select the bodypart. - start the grouping tool. - create a new group (default is New Group). - select all the polys you do not want to see. - assign a new material to this group (default is New Material). - go to the material room to make this new material invisible.

I have that outfit and used it in my "Blue Angel" render last week.  And I must say that it's certainly not the easiest outfit to work with!!!!!!!!!!!  I have no clue about those magnets and  left the dress in it's default pose.  The sleeves on the vest are something else too!!!!!!!!!!!  I ended up doing a render with the vest and one without and then pasting the arm that was without the vest over the arm that had the vest and cutting away the vest sleeve entirely because it was impossible to pose.

I found that while i could get the dress top to fit my figure, it made her chest look way larger than what I intended.  I think I finally resorted to using Wardrobe Wizard to fit it in the end.  The only problem with that is I lost all of the morphs/magnets in the clothing.  Someone said that I could keep the morphs by using the advanced confrom to feature in Wardrobe Wizard, but I have no idea how to do that either because it wants you to do something about joints before the clothing will conform again.

I'd say that dress is definitely for the supreme advanced user because of all those magnets!

I do know it's not something I'm likely to bother with again. I'm glad I invested in it when it was like $1.00 or something during one of those mad Daz sales. I sure wouldn't recommend paying full price for it.  Pretty, but extremely difficult to work with.  I wish Daz had a reviews area like we h ave here for products.

Oh wow, that was quick!  Than you guys and gals for the help.

So it is the dial tweaking for fine tuning... bummer. But that's ok, I just didn't wanna miss something I should know...

I never thought of the grouping! That's a good idea. I think I used the grouping once before when I was experimenting.

As for magnets, they seem to work similar to the 'soft selection' mode in Max (any crossover modelers whom can confirm that?)

I'm little handier in Max and couple other programs then in Poser, so I thought I could handle the abyssal queen outfit... We'll see. 

I wish there's a cross command or a cross technique reference between programs. Has anyone made anything like that?

Unfortunately some of us don't use Max, and are stupid when it comes to magnets, so for us that dress because of the magnets is extremely difficult to work with. 

Quote - Unfortunately some of us don't use Max, and are stupid when it comes to magnets, so for us that dress because of the magnets is extremely difficult to work with. 

Or maybe I haven't used the magnets enough to get myself in real trouble just yet

LOL, I've tried magnets and have yet to get them to work at all. I've made it part of my New Years Resolution to at least to create  one magnet and get it to work for me!  LOL

how about this...i use max and haven't used the magnets! lol!

Well, now, you're talking about actually creating and making magnets rather then just moving around someone else's magnets...  That's an entirelly different skillset!!!

i use max and i don't even know what a magnet is lmao.

billy