Hi,
I've been trying - fits and starts - to create conforming clothing for Poser 6 (V3). I came across an excellent tutorial for 3DS Max by Markdc at a mate's place. It walked through all the steps and kinda gave a mini-outline on how to use Max as well. I was almost decided to get myself a copy of Max until I priced it - in Australia, it's AUD $5500! Since my earning capacity here has actually dropped (compared to California) buying a copy of Max is not an option.

I've worked with Blender before - I have the current version (2.42a) - but now I find myself a bit puzzled how to accomplish the same things I did in the tutorial in Max. I've been able to bring a zeroed V3 obj into Blender (with all groups intact) and based on her create my model:

of a Little Black Dress. I need to assign groups now, since Blender supports groups and bones. In Max, one could 'freeze' V3 and she would stay solid, whilst the clothing mesh could be viewed in wire-frame mode. I've put my V3 figure into layer 3, and one of the group items - in this case, the hip - in layer 2 and just made layers 1 and 2 visible. Selecting the right faces is painfully difficult, though, because in wire-frame mode [ZKEY]:

you sometimes end up selecting the backfacing polygons as well when in wireframe mode

since the 'Limit Selection To Visible' button isn't available in wireframe mode, and you can't see the hip to select the appropriate faces for your group in solid mode. Even if I could made the faces somewhat opaque in Solid mode so that I can see the underlying body part, it would work.

Any suggestions on how to do this - or even how to better select the part of the mesh I want to create a group from? This is a bit of a showstopper...

Cheers,
Robyn

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