Dawn Clothing WIP

[Shellyw]

So I finally have gotten off my tush and got back to my clothing sets for Dawn.

Basics 2 is finally finished I think.

it has a short sleeve top, long sleeve top, pants, and flats ( same shoes from basics 01 )

while I had images rendering I went ahead and opened up Silo and started on set 03. lol

Screenshot of it in Silo. This set will include an undershirt, overshirt, leggings and the shoes if I can get the buggers to work. Me and shoes don't play well together.

I also have a skirt and top in the works but I have a lot of weight mapping to do with the skirt in DS so it is on the back burner for now. I will probably play around with in between projects until I decide that I have done all I can do with it.

so this is what I am up at the moment. I have a ton more of things already made but I haven't gotten around to finishing up the sets. Just little pieces here and there.

The bathing suits stuff I have put a hold on due to the fact I am going to redo them from scratch. I had some mesh problems going on.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Shelly, these are gorgeous. I love that long dress at the end, and I am really digging the turtleneck in the first picture! Great job on the material zones of the Silo outfit also!

These all look wonderful.

 

[Miss B]

WHOA! You've been a busy little beaver there missy. Good to see you creating again.

 

[Miss B]

Shelly, these are gorgeous. I love that long dress at the end, and I am really digging the turtleneck in the first picture! Great job on the material zones of the Silo outfit also!

These all look wonderful.

I suspect Richard/paganeagle is going to love that set with all those mat zones. He's so into texturing.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Very, very cool Shelly!

 

[Shellyw]

Shelly, these are gorgeous. I love that long dress at the end, and I am really digging the turtleneck in the first picture! Great job on the material zones of the Silo outfit also!

These all look wonderful.

Thank you very much, had fun making them. I have read time and time again that texture artists love material zones. So I try to put in as many as I can so that you can get as many different looks from one piece of clothing. I've always loved making dresses when I just did poser, but I am finding out that dresses are a whole new ball game when it comes to DS.

WHOA! You've been a busy little beaver there missy. Good to see you creating again.

yeah that is cause you get first dibs at finding all my faults and boo boo's when I make something! lol

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I suspect Richard/paganeagle is going to love that set with all those mat zones. He's so into texturing.

He's not the only one that loves those mat zones!!

I have read time and time again that texture artists love material zones. So I try to put in as many as I can so that you can get as many different looks from one piece of clothing.

Yes, I absolutely LOVE the extra material zones. As a texture artist, they are absolutely essential. Clothing that only comes with a single material zone on it isn't likely to ever see me texture it. I like the extra flexibility, and when I'm modeling a clothing item, I try to do the same thing in terms of working in the extra mat zones for folks to play with for just that reason.

Plus, even if someone is not interested in texturing the whole item, having those additional material zones still makes it MUCH more versatile in the program, because they can just set the opacity down to zero on the zones they don't want showing in order to turn it into other types of clothing items. Multiple mat zones are definitely the way to go on clothing!

 

[RAMWolff]

Nice looking outfit and I love the draping in the gown length skirt! NICE!

 

[Pendraia]

Looking great!

 

[FairyFantastic]

both outfit look fab hun

 

[paganeagle2001]

Silo..... My program of choice!!! Lol.

All the best.

Richard

 

[paganeagle2001]

I love making clothes, but I hate doing UVing, always have, always will.

All the best.

Richard

 

[paganeagle2001]

Shelly didn't mention that you can also switch off certain parts and so give the top and pants set a whole new look.

All the best.

Richard

 

[Shellyw]

Glad everyone likes them.

I used to love making dresses but since I have been using DS and Poser, dresses aren't as much fun anymore. Course I could just go back to making them for Poser only but then that wouldn't fun either. I've kind of gotten used to using both programs for development now, I will admit I am better in Poser than I am in DS. Lots more to learn on the DS part.

Yeah I love silo for modeling ( and uvmapping ), only time I ever use hexagon now is when I do morphs with it from DS. I used to really hate uvmapping but silo's uvmapping is the bomb.

Make a few seams, put in a few pin points and boom, I have me a nice uv map. Some I got to play around with to make them all nice and pretty but sure beats using uvmapper pro. Course it helps since uvmapper pro don't work for me on my machine anymore.

I use classic nowadays just to make my templates is about it. I know I can make them from Silo but they all come out in black and white and with classic I can get a nice pretty color one showing all the material zones.

Before I started using Silo for uvmapping I would spend more time on the uvmaps than I would the model. By the time I got done with the modeling and uvmapping I was already tired of looking at the project and start a new one. lol

 

[paganeagle2001]

Write a tutorial and make people like me keep our hair while doing UV Mapping!!! Lol.

All the best.

Richard

 

[Shellyw]

what I learned about uv mapping in silo I learned from all the tuts I bought by Fugazi1968 I bought a ton of them when I first started using Silo.

 

[paganeagle2001]

I'll have to go back and watch them again.

All the best.

Richard

 

[Miss B]

Yes, I have a lot of his tutorials too, as I was mostly a prop/environment modeler in Blender before I got Silo and played with Fugazi's tuts.

 

[Shellyw]

was going through my backlog of Silo files and found something I made for Dusk. Forgot I even made this, now if I can figure out how to fix "skirts" in DS I might get around to working on this outfit.

 

[Miss B]

Ohhhh, I like that. It has a lot of potential.