I am working on it at the moment and almost have a handle on some of it, but here are some of the tips I DO have:

1. Read up on the idea of "constrained" cloth groups. It is important that shoulder straps and so on that "hold up" the clothing be in this group most of the time to keep it looking natural.
    
2. Set the number of "frames" for the cloth simulation low... like 3 until you get what you want. Often even though you are not working with an animation P5 will try and simulate for 30 frames.
    
3. Read up on "drape" frames.

Now, my questions:

When I clothify P4 clothing, often the abdominal grouping of the clothing will separate away from the upper part. The  cloth simulation will treat groupings as separate clothing items. I need a way to tell the cloth room to weld the seams of clothing groups - but keep them as material zones.

Any ideas?

Load the conforming clothing item, export to Wavefront .obj with the "weld seams" option checked, then import back into Poser.

Dont use the ones with caps on them or double sided! I think I may have a fix on some things but give me some time. Ron

Do I lose all the material zones? Will it still conform or is this a one way all or nothing thing? The clothing room has a "weld" button int he group editor... will this help? Thanks!

It has to be one mesh thats how the cloth works. It can not have caps or be double sided. I think I have something for the double sided but have not tried it. Material groupings not sure about yet. Some others may. Post what you learn and we will all learn together. Ron

I'm working on a mix and match approach. For example a long sleeved full length dress would benefit from conforming from the abdomen up but have cloth motion from the hip down. There is a learning curve as we discover the influences of the various dials. Challenging but fun :)

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Poser 9 SR3  and 8 sr3
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Processor Type:  AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size:  1TB
Processor - Clock Speed:  2.8 GHz
Operating System:  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 
Graphics Type:  ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics 
System Ram:  8GB 

Hey Phil, do you know if we can add extra points in the face room for more accurate face shaping? If so how? :)

Poser 9 SR3  and 8 sr3
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Processor Type:  AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size:  1TB
Processor - Clock Speed:  2.8 GHz
Operating System:  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 
Graphics Type:  ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics 
System Ram:  8GB 

Umm? Still trying to find the door out of the cloth room. Is there a secret passage?

I accuse Don in the Materials room with a 30,000 polygon Rhino candlestick :)

Phil Hehehehehehe! Ron

Lmao Phil! You are so crazy!

Poser 9 SR3  and 8 sr3
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Processor Type:  AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size:  1TB
Processor - Clock Speed:  2.8 GHz
Operating System:  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 
Graphics Type:  ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics 
System Ram:  8GB 

We love you Phil!

... Mr. Boddy in the Registration Screen with a Bryce boolean.

Mr. Boddy is dead, man...miss him, miss him...

Nonsense. It was a setup. He faked his death, and is living off the residuals for Cluedo.

ROTFL...believe it or not, in recent e-mail correspondence, I told an old college friend that I always enjoy a good Klaatu joke!

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