I was going to make Dawn a handbag...

[Miss B]

The purse is looking good Earl. It just looks a bit stiff and blocky, though maybe that's the look you're going for.

I'm also wondering why you didn't attach the strap to the loops on either side of the purse, rather than running it through the loops.

 

[eclark1894]

If I was going to spend $4000 on a purse, it better come with $3950 in cash tucked in a pocket inside.

@eclark1894 nice looking handbag. I like what you did with the Hivewire logo. Cool.

I'm giving Rae 134 the credit for the logo inspiration, even though to be honest I already intended to do it.

 

[eclark1894]

The purse is looking good Earl. It just looks a bit stiff and blocky, though maybe that's the look you're going for.

I'm also wondering why you didn't attach the strap to the loops on either side of the purse, rather than running it through the loops.

I'm trying to model the purse as clos to the original as possible. That's how the straps are fastened to the purse. The only major design item I've changed so far is to make the strap all leather instead of the chain. As for the blocky, stiff look... well, it is.

 

[Miss B]

Ahh OK. That's a better reference photo for me to see how it's built. I think the blockiness I saw was because you made it almost as tall as it is wide. I went back to the original photo you uploaded in the first thread, and NOW I see the strap. Probably set up that way so it can be used as a double strap as well as a single, longer strap. I forgot it was like that.

 

[eclark1894]

I can make it shorter and wider if you want.

 

[Miss B]

Well not wider, but just a drop shorter so it looks more rectangular than squarish I guess.

 

[eclark1894]

Well not wider, but just a drop shorter so it looks more rectangular than squarish I guess.

How's this?

 

[Pendraia]

Morphs can be transferred with the transfer utility...most stuff I convert with autofit keeps all the morphs. DS does sometimes decide to hide them though so they appear greyed out in the parameters tab. They are easy enough to unhide though.

I don't know, but I look forward to learning the answer with you. I'm eventually going to be trying to convert some stuff to DAZ and I was going to use morphs in Poser for the Poser version.

 

[eclark1894]

Didn't even know there was a transfer utility, let alone how to use it.

 

[Pendraia]

Earl, it's very easy to use...I'm trying to get my head around Poser Weightmapping processes and feeling totally kerfuffled by it so I can understand that it might be difficult until you get your head around it but I'm happy to help if you want.

 

[eclark1894]

Earl, it's very easy to use...I'm trying to get my head around Poser Weightmapping processes and feeling totally kerfuffled by it so I can understand that it might be difficult until you get your head around it but I'm happy to help if you want.

Personally, from what I saw when I tried it, there's really not much difference between the way Poser's, Studio's and Blender's weightmapping works. My only regret is that I wish Poser's was more like Blender's and Studio's. The difference is that Poser weight paints by vertices which does give you a bit more control... sometimes.

 

[Pendraia]

You can do that in DS also Earl...if you have the weight brush selected you automatically have a brush that paints the weights. You have to select the section in the scene tab and then select which rotation you want to paint or even the bulge maps. To take away weight you hold the alt key and it will reverse the process and remove the red. If you right click on the work area there are different options for selection, fall off and brush mode. There is also a smoothing brush.

My problem with weightmapping in poser is all the tutorials I've seen so far assume you know how to do the basic stuff which I don't. Also I don't have a clue how to group...I'm going to check Traci's tutorial out and see if that helps me.

 

[eclark1894]

You can do that in DS also Earl...if you have the weight brush selected you automatically have a brush that paints the weights. You have to select the section in the scene tab and then select which rotation you want to paint or even the bulge maps. To take away weight you hold the alt key and it will reverse the process and remove the red. If you right click on the work area there are different options for selection, fall off and brush mode. There is also a smoothing brush.

My problem with weightmapping in poser is all the tutorials I've seen so far assume you know how to do the basic stuff which I don't. Also I don't have a clue how to group...I'm going to check Traci's tutorial out and see if that helps me.

Most of the time, i believe grouping is done during the modeling process.

 

[Pendraia]

Okay...is it just like setting up material groups? Or is it different?

 

[Sunfire]

If you have PP2014 or P11, thanks to the fitting room you don't need to group, it will group for you, though you might have to go in and adjust your groups.

Also I think the newer Posers don't need you to pre-group when you go into the set up room, but again, things will need adjusting.

 

[Pendraia]

Okay...that's good to know Sunfire. Hopefully Traci's tutorial does it that way.

 

[Sunfire]

Fugazi1968 has a couple of his newer tutorials that uses the fitting room to group.

 

[Pendraia]

Do you know which ones? He does really good tutorials...

 

[Sunfire]

It's been so long since I've looked so I can't recall for sure, but the new starter set, the Starter Kit for PP2014, I think he uses that method.

 

[Pendraia]

I'll have a look thanks for the info...sorry Earl for sidetracking the thread.