Diva For Dawn

[Satira Capriccio]

If you have an off the shoulder dress or one with a scoop neckline, it will tend to fall off the shoulders and keep falling. Adding a constrained group allows you to pin the neckline in place.

You'd use Soft decorated groups if you had like a patch pocket that you wanted to move with the garment instead of sliding off. Rigid Decorated group would be for buttons or things like that which are "rigid."

Off the top of my head, I don't remember when you would use the Choreographed group.

If you had a dress where you wanted the bodice to be stiffish, but the skirt to be floaty, you would add a second Dynamic Group. The bodice dynamic group would have higher fold, shear, and stretch resistance and lower cloth density. While the Dynamic Group you assign the skirt to would have lower fold, shear, and stretch resistance and a higher cloth density.

For basic information, get Esha's free dynamic cloth tutorial from RDNA. If you really want to get into dynamics, then get her masterclass tutorial. (I'm not sure if it's still on sale)

 

[Miss B]

Yes, Esha's free dynamic cloth tutorial helped me get started, and I did buy her Masterclass Tutorial, but haven't had a chance to look at it. Then again, Dawn/Lully includes one with her dynamic products, and I think, IIRC, you're planning on one to be included with your Nouvelle Aube set, so lots of ideas for working with Poser dynamics.

Thanks for this additional information, because I wasn't exactly sure what they all were either. I wonder if the Choreographed group has anything to do with animation, because getting dynamic clothing to sim correctly during an animated movie would certainly take some doing.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

When modeling your clothing, it helps to set up material zones for your dynamic groups.

For example, if I were creating a dress with a low or off the shoulder neckline, I'd select a row of polys along the neckline and set it up as a constrained material zone. Then when I create a constrained group in the cloth room, I can select that material zone to add to the constrained group. Same if I have a material zone for the bodice and another for the skirt, I can easily add the bodice to one dynamic group and the skirt to another by selecting the material zone for each.

It seems a lot more complicated than it is. Once you start experimenting with dynamics and you get a good tutorial like Esha's, it makes everything a LOT easier.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Oh yeah. I have a HUGE pdf that will be included with the Nouvelle Aube clothing and probably the poses too. It goes into a lot of detail in using the dynamic clothing with the conforming clothing and the poses and the furniture from the decor set.

If you print the pdf, you'd probably kill a forest.

 

[Pendraia]

Ah...answered my question from the first post in the second post. Some things for me to think about. Thanks again for the info and support!

 

[sanbie]

I think you can save the clothing item with the constrained and decorated in them can't you...so all the person has to do to use it is load and go

 

[Pendraia]

As I want to think about it some more I've been playing with the texture. This is DS Iray but the settings are really simply with only a basic bump and trans for the eyelashes applied.
I'm a bit happier with the mask but I still haven't settled on the colour it's giving more of the effect I was after...

 

[sanbie]

That my dear looks awesome

 

[Miss B]

YES!!! I like the way the mask is coming along.

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks...it is slowly coming along. I've never done skins other than alien ones...

 

[sanbie]

Well then congratulations are in order...you are doing a super job!

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks again...without using the wonderful Luna base as a MR I wouldn't have gotten this far.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Love the mask!

 

[Lorraine]

Fab, Pen! Diva looks absolute delightful in her mask. And in her sundress all ready for the Melbourne weather!

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks Satira and Lorraine...

@Lorraine, it's been cool for the last week. Supposed to get hot tomorrow though. Just about to head to bed so night all...

 

[sanbie]

Night pen

 

[Pendraia]

Morning...just checking the forum and then I need to get to work.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

We've gotten colder here I swear there was snow on the ground Wed. Certainly, the puddles were frozen last week one morning. Today it's raining and raining, but since it's warmed up a bit for the weekend, it will just be rain. Hopefully, when it gets cold again during the week, it won't rain.

 

[Miss B]

Poured here early this morning too. Not ideal weather, that's for sure. Then again, better than snow.

 

[Pendraia]

Morning Satira and Miss B...some images I did of Diva in Poser. I'm practicing my skills with using it for renders so I can do the promos. Just some basic shots.