Hi Gadget!
Ok so I have made mmm four .. fitroom helper kits so far. Paul, Pauline, Dawn and Dusk
Each set has poses and magnets in them to help you convert clothing and footwear to the target figure from V4, M4, and so forth.
you CAN use them without the fitting room or in DS but you will have an extra two steps
1 - load the target figure , in this case Dusk
2 - make sure the position/pose of Dusk is zeroed. Check hip and body to be certain x y and z trans are set to 0. Also the figure should have no shaping morphs applied.
3 - load a clothing item made for m4. do NOT conform.
4 - The next part is the reshaping. First load the M4 to Dusk POSE onto the clothing. This should rescale and align the clothing to fit over Dusk in the zeroed position
5 - If the clothing now fits you can jump along to step 6. If the clothing still does not fit you should select the clothing item, and then apply the M4 to Dusk clothing magnet set in the props folder. This should reshape the clothing and leave none of the figure poking through. If the fit is still not right you may need to adjust the magnets, or use Posers morph brush to gently adjust the clothing mesh to fit better. I suggest using the Loosen brush set to a value of .1 and a large soft brush.
6 - The next step is the regrouping and rerigging, handled in Poser. If you do not have the Fit room or are in DS skip to the Optional Steps.
7 - Go to the fitting room. Start a new session. The clothing gets loaded into the first box. Turn OFF all the boxes. You want to keep the pose and deformations. Load Dusk into the second box with Zero pose selected, just to be certain
8 - Since the garment is already fitted all you need to do now is select create Figure and choose a name for the clothing item. I usually just add the figure name to the clothing name.
9 - Now a dialog box will come up asking you about rigging and morphs. I generally keep my rigging trimmed, but if you leave it at default nothing bad should happen. You probably want to turn Morph Transfer OFF and then turn ReGroup ON.
10 - After the dialog finishes, delete the session and return to the pose room. Please note .. this method leaves the new and the old clothing in the scene. Before you delete the old clothing I usually use the Transfer Morphs option to copy the clothings specialized morphs from the old to the new. This includes morphs like sway, loosen, puff sleeves, and so forth.
11 - Delete the old clothing now. Select the new clothing, conform to Dusk. At this point it is ready to use. You can also use the Transfer morphs tool to copy Dusks morphs into his shiny new clothing.
12 - Save this clothing into your Dusk clothing folder. Now you should be able to load this into your library whenever.
NOTE - This method does NOT save custom rigging like handles on long skirts and so forth. Also poser's autogrouping can do some odd things. Keep an eye on the thigh/hip joins as that is where most of the issues will come up.
Optional Steps that skip the Fitting room
1 - once the clothing item is posed and shaped around dusk, export the obj.
2 - you can now import this object and rig it as you would any Dusk item.
3 - in poser you should import the obj, go to the Setup room and apply rigging from your selected Dusk rig donor.
3a - in DS use the Transfer tool (dot with arrow) Dusk goes in the left box in the dialog, and the clothing in the right.
After rigging you will of course need to test joints, adjust as needed, add the materials back in, and add morphs.
It looks like a lot of writing, but the whole process is pretty fast. Most people can refit a clothing item in less than 10 minutes. I did the hard part for you with the reshaping, everything else is essentially paperwork
Please ask if you have any questions about individual steps !
Lyrra
