I'm good again.  The last time this happened to me was almost three years ago with 3D Canvas Pro 7.  But it only clobbered my MS Visual Studio C++ compiler.

Watching some designer shows on TV (and looking through a Hugo Boss catalog) did give me some outfit ideas to model in Hexagon.  

Very good idea! I often wondered why high fashion is not more used on Poser models. After all, cloth design has no copyright protection (as long as you don't use the designers name). :)

I look forward to your creations! Myself I have to learn to sew first.. :(

Just getting whimiscal and seeing how fast I could integrate it into my routine, I created this posed dress and boa (Fur via Poser's Hair Room)

Stockings I made real quick in Max with the new toy "Wrapit" and garment maker.  I wanted to stripe the stockings but I forgot to map them while they were sane.

The ripples in the dress are a little jagged for my liking, but I suspect this has more to do with shading/lighting than the actual model.  Baggins could tell us for sure.

Hmm.. So that boa is dynamic cloth and you grew hair on it? I didn't know you could do that.. If you can, it'd be really cool.

Quote - It is not marketed at hobbyists LOL, hobbyists just noticed it while it was in beta. $700 is a steal compared to the OptiTex licence which is in the thousands I believe.

It's personal liscene would be for hobbyists, but is far too laden with restrictions . As for it's full liscense it is far too expensive for what it is compared to other feature rich software in that same price range in my opinion.

I believe you can grow hair on absolutely anything (except for other hair)

Quote - I believe you can grow hair on absolutely anything (except for other hair)

That's cool! 

Dynamic scarfs.. Dynamic fur coat..  Options are endless.

you can grow hair on any polygon.

Quote - It's personal liscene would be for hobbyists, but is far too laden with restrictions .

I'd say it's not very restrictive for a personal license to allow sales of rendered images.... But if I ever did want to sell clothing meshes, I dunno that I would ever be able to afford another $600.

And here is an example how to combine Conforming, Dynamic and MD clothing at the same time..

Wow, amazing work, guys !

Quote - For dynamic clothes though triangles works far better (in the cloth room).

Ah, is that so ?  I think that is a good point for me to note, next time I make a simple robe or two (I only use Shade and Hexagon, and only make veyr simple dynamic clothing).  Thanks for the information.

Yeah triangles tend to give less buggy drapes.

Also, nice clothing guys. :)

.."less buggy drapes"

Not only that but the (Poser) simulation runs up to 10x faster.

bookmarked

Quote - Uninstalling Marvelous Designer 2 trashed my registry.  I recommend just deleting the program from your hard drive in your "C:program Files" folder if you are using 32-bit rather than running their uninstaller.  I should have known better when I noticed Marvelous Designer 2 does not show up in ADD/REMOVE Programs in the Control Panel.

Just got this email now from the programmers:

Dear Marvelous Designer Users, 

We are sending this email to warn you "Do not run our Uninstaller of the old version (2.63 or below)". Please understand this email notification even though you are not registered in our mailing list because this is urgent and important. 

We've just found that our Uninstaller has a critical problem. It removes all registries in HKCU/Software and this can mess up some settings of lots of the softwares like Chrome, Firefox, etc.. And some application could be crashed so that you should reinstall it.. or restore Windows setting.

We are very sorry for this big trouble. We've figured out the problem completely and it was fixed since the 2.65 version. So if you want to uninstall Marvelous Designer, please download the latest version at the website (http://www.marvelousdesigner.com/Marvelous/Downloads.aspx) and run uninstaller. 

In the next time, we will get back to you with a good news. 

Best regards,

• MarvelousDesigner Team

Blimey !  I'll wait a bit longer before installing the demo version, in that case.....

It took me about a day and a half to repair my registry.  I was very close to re-installing Windows from scratch.  But I would lose a lot of apps that I have activated that could only be deactivated first before wiping a drive.

I used a restore point and that brought everything back to normal.

Mine is turned off because my drive is nearly full.  That's cool though that restoring to a previous point worked for you.  A lot of newer apps ignore Microsoft's restore trick.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2689692

Quote - Marvellous Design (software) Copyright (c) 2010 CLO Virtual Fashion Inc., which was in a trademark and/or patent application by reyes infografica (see att lnk).  I wonder if there were a connexion between the two entities.

They have stated they are not the same company, & MD is in Korea I think, while the other was in Europe.

There are all sorts of clothing programs.  The drama occurs when such software is sold for under $100.  And companies in different countries can't sue each other anyway.  Lawyers still get pay-offs though.

Quote - > Quote - Uninstalling Marvelous Designer 2 trashed my registry.  I recommend just deleting the program from your hard drive in your "C:program Files" folder if you are using 32-bit rather than running their uninstaller.  I should have known better when I noticed Marvelous Designer 2 does not show up in ADD/REMOVE Programs in the Control Panel.

Just got this email now from the programmers:

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Marvelous Designer Users, 

We are sending this email to warn you "Do not run our Uninstaller of the old version (2.63 or below)". Please understand this email notification even though you are not registered in our mailing list because this is urgent and important. 

We've just found that our Uninstaller has a critical problem. It removes all registries in HKCU/Software and this can mess up some settings of lots of the softwares like Chrome, Firefox, etc.. And some application could be crashed so that you should reinstall it.. or restore Windows setting.

We are very sorry for this big trouble. We've figured out the problem completely and it was fixed since the 2.65 version. So if you want to uninstall Marvelous Designer, please download the latest version at the website (http://www.marvelousdesigner.com/Marvelous/Downloads.aspx) and run uninstaller. 

In the next time, we will get back to you with a good news. 

Best regards,

• MarvelousDesigner Team

I got the same letter and I never even bought their software. Weird!

"They have stated they are not the same company.."

There was a yacht building company in a Sweden that finaly succeeded after going bankrupt seven times. The owners liked to claim that none of the other owners or designers had contributed anything whatever to the result yet after each failure the company had emerged the next day with the same products and the same customers.

So please take whatever they say with a pinch of salt.

Quote - "They have stated they are not the same company.."

There was a yacht building company in a Sweden that finaly succeeded after going bankrupt seven times. The owners liked to claim that none of the other owners or designers had contributed anything whatever to the result yet after each failure the company had emerged the next day with the same products and the same customers.

So please take whatever they say with a pinch of salt.

Which could explain why, as a Virtual Fashion owner, I got the email from them about Marvelous Clothing Designer when I've never bought it.

I never bought MD myself, but I did sign on for their e-Newsletter and so I got the notification mail as well.

I am not a VF customer, however.

Wow, almost February...  It's on sale now with a promised D|S plug-in...  I assume the plug-in isn't free after the sale ends, but I wonder what the price will be?

Quote -
We've just found that our Uninstaller has a critical problem. It removes all registries in HKCU/Software and this can mess up some settings of lots of the softwares like Chrome, Firefox, etc.. And some application could be crashed so that you should reinstall it.. or restore Windows setting.

 thats not a bug. thats a disaster.

" thats not a bug. thats a disaster."

*Yep *

It's over and fixed guys, geez.  Why not focus on what the product actually does?

Quote - It's over and fixed guys, geez.  Why not focus on what the product actually does?

Hehe, I suppose it's like that joke where the punchline goes: "...But you shag ONE sheep..."

*:-)

Here is my first attempt at a real clothing item.  I spent about 30 minutes actually doing the pattern and tweeking it by some scaling, and tugging and pulling at it.  Here its shown on V4.  I loaded K4 in to MD2 and it only took maybe 10 minutes to refit the dress for K4. (no render, sorry)

Honestly, the ease of use of this app is amazing.  Sure, its features could use some additions and tweaks but still.  30 minutes from pattern PDF to a rendered 3D dress?  No way in hell could i do that in Modo.  Maybe Mada can or perhaps Bog.  Not me.

At the current $99 I can't see myself not going for it.  Even if the auth servers die a year from now (highly unlikely though), I think the price would still have been worth it.

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Since when are commercial posts advertising your own products allowed in this forum?

EZbrush, thank you for extremly valuable information!

thank you,

my post above is to help others, there is tons of FREE Tutorials on there all so

I learned a lot from your free tutorials EZbrush , so thank you very much for making them. In fact I basically learned how to model by watching your tutorials and the tutorials at Geek at Play Studios. I still watch your tutorials quite often.

Anyway,  I don't know much about Marvellous Designer though. I could make a dress like the one in wolfie's example in hexagon, but it would certainly take me longer than 30 mins.  Plus all the time spent on UV mapping and texturing.... I think the dress wolfie made looks very nice. But what are those thin red, green and blue lines?

head up there is going to be a price change soon on marvelous designer application
http://www.marvelousdesigner.com/forum/news/37

Quote - Since when are commercial posts advertising your own products allowed in this forum?

I'm fairly certain that that only pertains to advertising "Threads" not individual posts that are on topic to an existing thread.

I would so love for there to be another MD sale - i'd probably bite this time.... :blink:

Quote - I would so love for there to be another MD sale - i'd probably bite this time.... :blink:

Maybe on pink Monday? I'd love to have this too.

on macs you can clone a harddrive very easily eg to an external drive, and then if something goes wrong with your old harddrive with the operating system on it and you take out the damaged harddrive completely and replace it with a blank one, and restart your mac, the computer just starts automatically from the clone (because when it starts up it looks for a drive either external or internal with the operating system on it, and if the original start up disk can't be found it chooses the clone) and everything works as normal. no problem with serial numbers of disks (macs don't care about that) etc. ie you have your original computer back from your clone. you don't have to restore anything, you don't need any DVDs etc.  then you can just clone back to your damaged drive if you like or to your new hard drive that you have placed internally.

Does not windows have a similar feature?

Love esther

In windows there are a variety of backup methods both build in and 3th part. The mac version sounds nice, but real life is more complicated. You can have more than one hard disk, with partitions, you need to do several backup versions 1,2, 3 from different dates, you want to choose what you will back up and so on and so forth.

The mac is made for simplicity, to make life easier for the average untechnical user. But we real men (of both sexes!:) need something more.

A question on MD... from what I understand, the mesh is this Delaunay-type thing, which is an assortment of tris. Not sure if I'm right, but that what I understand. There is some talk of Poser finally getting subD, which apparently doesn't like tris?

Or am I completely wrong?

XXCLONE (free & paid) does basically what estherau is describing for Windows. It will create an exact clone of the system or any other partition with a few clicks. If you clone the system partion, it will be bootable. I haven't tried it with an external HD but but I assume that works. IIRC, it will even modify the Windows boot screen to allow you to boot to the original or the cloned system drive/partition.

http://www.xxclone.com/

Windows make registry backups but I use ERUNT which is more flexible, allowing you to make backups at will or autimatically and provides a way to revert to any saved version - which can be very helpful on occasion.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ 

RobynsVeil,

The whole MD team is working intensive with the quad mesh, to the point that all other things are on hold. The quad mesh is several months late, it may be that they have underestimated the difficulty of it. After all, no one else has ever succeeded making a tri to quad converter that is good enough.

Meanwhile we MD users have learned retopology the hard way, everyone using his/hers personal favorite method. A conforming cloth item that is not quad will never do, subdivision is only one issue of a long list. The MD way is still a great time saver though, even included the time for the retop. And the quality is much better with natural falls and wrinkles. Above all it is great fun! The animation has improved to the point that you can make short animations like OptiTex in Daz Studio. But OptiTex doesn't allow you to make your own cloth, so what do you prefer?

I agree: what MD offers at this point is indeed very tempting. Perhaps not $200-tempting (which is a fair bit more than what I paid to upgrade either Poser or Vue) but still... perhaps they may run a special again at some point: I'm very likely to bite then, as I said.

On retopo: I recently "invested" in BSurfaces for Blender (eventually going to be free, but I'm a huge supporter of anything Blender so I got it)... tried to do retopo with it. The results well much less than stellar. Probably something I was doing wrong, no doubt. So, still looking for a decent retopo tool... :blink:

I looked up BSurfaces in youtube and it looks good to me. Perhaps you should not do everything manually. You save time if you first use the ordinary clothing tools in your application, I am not familiar to Blender but I am sure that Blender has those. Besides the advantage of getting 2/3 of the job done free there are certain things that a machine does better. Like flowing lines in very tight places for example.