As is probably very common, I'm exploring some ideas for faerie/elven characters. I have Alice, and Delilah, and Wysteria, but even with such intimidating perfection around I'm still game to try my hand. I'm basing a character on Alice right now, and thus begins my first hurdle: the clothing sets I have to start from all seem based either on a lady more "endowed" than Alice, or are P4fem-based (in the case of Delilah/Wysteria). With the collective wisdom out there, what seems to be the "best" method for fixing, say, a stock bikini top so as not to need lots of extra stuffing to fit? I'm thinking either getting handy with magnets or making a form-fitting piece from skin polygons of the covered area. Am I on the right track? If magnets are useful enough to make nicely-form-fitting clothing, and if I find the manual a wee bit less than perfectly helpful in this area, is there a tutorial out there for such things? Many thanks in advance! Mark

Here's the early work on the character. I'm happy with her face, but the hair is going to take a lot of practice to get right. Credits to so many people for the props and such (it's Alice with the "smart hair" and a lot of playing with morph targets. The wings are from the Zygote creature pack. I forget where I found the antennae, sorry).

i like her the fringe is cool the back just needs a little work well done

Look for clothing sets that have the same morphs you have for your figures.

If you want skin-tight clothing, you might try drawing the clothing on the skin texture map. A lot of people do that for stockings.

The ultra-morph woman figure has built-in clothing morphs. You're somewhat limited in variety, but on the other hand, you have a guaranteed fit.

My understanding is that most of the fairies, starting with the one from DAZ are based on or similar in size to the New Young Woman model (who isn't as "endowed"). If you start with clothing for the NYW and modify theose pieces you should have less trouble. I'd also suggest talking to Traveler, also known as Morphing Man, because he is perhaps the best at getting things to fit once you've changed the underlying shape. Nerd and Bloodsong are good resources as well. Good luck, she is off to a great start! Carolly

Alice is based on Vicki, right? You may want to check out the3dwizard's Clothing Pack 1 in the parket place. It has morphs for DAZ's clothing pack for Victoria, and they may be able to help you.

Otherwise, get friendly with those magnets or a modelling program and make some morphs yourself.

Hope this helps.

Thanks to all, and good tip, JK. Just downloaded both sets, off to play. :-) Cheers! Mark

Hehehe...I said parket place. Damn typo gnomes! Obviously that's supposed to read Melrose Place.

Thanks again for all the tips and advice. Some of the answer is, of course, practice and experiment and stub toes until techniques come to light. :-) For the heck of it, here's a quick render using both the clothing morphs and some magnets (not intuitive for me, but they're starting to make sense). Even if she's Yet Another Faerie she's a fun learning tool. Thanks to PeteLite for the skirt texture and Mehndi's Delilah for letting me borrow one of her tops. Mark