I'd love to make clothing for poser (because we don't have enough;) )I have Wings and 3dsMax but really don't know how to get clothing out of them. Are there any good tutorials for making clothing using either program?

I know that someone here does make clothes with Wings (darn good ones, at that), I'm still making hats, it's the best I can do for now.

 Yeah right now I can make a geometric shape and change it slightly, but clothing is way different than a box or ball. 

Quote -  Yeah right now I can make a geometric shape and change it slightly, but clothing is way different than a box or ball. 

Which version of Max are you using?  I know in later ones there was a Garment tool.  It's been a long time since I used it but I remember it being quite good, and reasonably well explained in the Max Help section.

Basically you lay out a flat pattern, just like a taylors blueprint, using splined shapes.  You can then turn those into cloth panels and use the garment modifier to stitch them together around your figure.  it then runs a kinda shrinkwrap on them, using the seams you define to pull the cloth panels onto the model (V4 or whatever).

Have a peek in your helpfile that max comes with, I'm sure if you search for "garment" you'll find it.

John :)

 In the Hexagon forum here there's a collection of links to "how to make clothes" - and they're not all Hexagon-based, they're actually more generic cloth making tutorials, Jim Burton has some on shoes and that one is made with Max. There's also C4D tutorials ect.

I would of course suggest using Hexagon for the purpose, but that's because it was the first program where I actually managed to produce something that looked vaguely like real clothes. I used Max originally, years and years ago, but these days, I'm a Hexagon-lover. It may not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it's an easy-to-grasp modeller (among other things because it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles) and it's good for making Poser stuff in.

Quote -  Yeah right now I can make a geometric shape and change it slightly, but clothing is way different than a box or ball. 

I make clothes with Wings. With box you can easy make any shape adding edges and extruding polygons.
1 First I import figure obj.
2 Remove head, fingers and another useless body parts.
3 Select all and choose "wireframe" view
4 "Lock selected"
5 Create cube, scale it and place around waist. (Cut cube along z axis and create virtual mirror)
6 Model cube adding vertical edges to obtain prism similar to belt. (Not too many - needn't be smooth atm)
7 Extrude top of prism (use "extrude region")
8 Extrude along y axis few times in small steps. After every step adjust verticles, edges or polygons if you see that clothes intersect figure wireframe. Too big (loose) cloth is better then too thigh.
9 Over shoulders add edges to create correct shape.
10 Add edges and join verticles to create shape of collar and sleeves.
11 Freeze mirror, select polygons inside collar and sleeves, choose material "hole". Select "hole" for bottom of shape as well
12 Cut shape in the middle and create new virtual mirror.
13 Extrude sleeves as above.
14 Freeze mirror select edges around "hole" material and make them "hard".
15 Select all polygons with "hole" material, choose "invert" and press "smooth"
16 Check if all figure verticles do not intersect created shape - adjust it if necessery.

17 Choose edges along which you wish cut shape to body part and use "loop cut" 18 When you cut shape for body part check if all unvisible polygons (where body parts touch each other) have "hole" material. I always miss some polygon and must do it again. 19 "rename" each shape with body part name: hip, abdomen, rShld etc. 20 Select created shapes and "export selected" 21 Import obj to Poser, go to setuproom and load bones from library. As a donnor use figure (blank) for which you created clothes.

Above are smaples which I created for M4, M3 i V3. Conforming or hybrid.