Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
OUCH, that must have been one seriously messed up TShirt.
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Poser 11 question on realigning rigging in clothing for scaled figures
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OUCH, that must have been one seriously messed up TShirt.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Every clothing item I put out uses this method for morph refinement. Even Dawn's Shirt in the At The Office set had every breast morph refined using this method. You have the ability to "edit' the morph using all the morph brush tools in Poser. Since P9.
Much easier than exporting the object to the modeler, fixing the morph and creating a JCM. Same basic operation, but no need to fiddle in the modeler as you can do it right in Poser. And no more JCMs!
It's really an amazing tool and saves a great deal of time.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
OK, I'm going to do a quick step by step of putting Dawn clothing on Diva using the PRO version of Poser (9+). Since you need Copy Morphs From, you will need the PRO version to make this work.
Load Dawn normally
Load your choice of clothing and conform it to Dawn.
At this point, ensure the following options are checked on the Properties tab of each clothing item.
Once that is done, select Dawn>Body on the figure dropdown menu
Inject the Diva morph in Dawn.
Select a clothing item from the dropdown menu - Shirt>Body for example
Then, Figure>Copy Morphs From and choose Dawn from the popup menu
You will be presented with a window listing all Dawn's installed morphs. Uncheck Dawn/Body, since we only need to transfer one morph.
Scroll down the list until you find plDiva and click in the box next to it, then OK
At this point, the clothing should automatically fit to Diva, though there may be some crushing we need to fix in the next step
To smooth out crushing from the scaling
With the clothing selected (Shirt>Body) click on the morph brush tool
When the morph tool menu appears, we will go through a series of steps to alter the Diva morph and rid the clothing of the crushing.
It doesn't matter which body part you select, but I try to start where the crushing is the heaviest. You are not limited to this body part, so it really doesn't matter where you start.
Drill down in the menu for the Diva morph
As an aside, I always turn down the magnitude when working with the morph brush. The default setting of 0.5000 is simply too strong, even for intense crushing. Brush size depends on how much you want to cover in one stroke with the brush.
Choose the Smooth brush from the icon in the morph window and start to paint the smoothing morph over the crushing. You can smooth all the crushing in one go, regardless of body part. No need to go through the morph selection process for each one.
Once you have finished editing the morph, you can Zero out the Diva morph in Dawn and save the clothing item back to the library. By doing so, you have permanently altered the Diva morph in your clothing and the next time you use Diva, the clothing will autofit and auto follow Diva.
Here, I used this method to put the Pixieluna Must Have Casual clothing on Diva.
Load Dawn normally
Load your choice of clothing and conform it to Dawn.
At this point, ensure the following options are checked on the Properties tab of each clothing item.
Once that is done, select Dawn>Body on the figure dropdown menu
Inject the Diva morph in Dawn.
Select a clothing item from the dropdown menu - Shirt>Body for example
Then, Figure>Copy Morphs From and choose Dawn from the popup menu
You will be presented with a window listing all Dawn's installed morphs. Uncheck Dawn/Body, since we only need to transfer one morph.
Scroll down the list until you find plDiva and click in the box next to it, then OK
At this point, the clothing should automatically fit to Diva, though there may be some crushing we need to fix in the next step
To smooth out crushing from the scaling
With the clothing selected (Shirt>Body) click on the morph brush tool
When the morph tool menu appears, we will go through a series of steps to alter the Diva morph and rid the clothing of the crushing.
It doesn't matter which body part you select, but I try to start where the crushing is the heaviest. You are not limited to this body part, so it really doesn't matter where you start.
Drill down in the menu for the Diva morph
As an aside, I always turn down the magnitude when working with the morph brush. The default setting of 0.5000 is simply too strong, even for intense crushing. Brush size depends on how much you want to cover in one stroke with the brush.
Choose the Smooth brush from the icon in the morph window and start to paint the smoothing morph over the crushing. You can smooth all the crushing in one go, regardless of body part. No need to go through the morph selection process for each one.
Once you have finished editing the morph, you can Zero out the Diva morph in Dawn and save the clothing item back to the library. By doing so, you have permanently altered the Diva morph in your clothing and the next time you use Diva, the clothing will autofit and auto follow Diva.
Here, I used this method to put the Pixieluna Must Have Casual clothing on Diva.
TaishoBee
Adventurous
I followed this exactly but this happens. I'm using the Scarecrow outfit by BYU Dragon Breath. All I did here to cause the brak was move her thigh side to side. Mac, Poser 11 Pro, all updates Mavericks OSX.
Also this is using the fitting room thread's tutorial, sorry about that.
Also this is using the fitting room thread's tutorial, sorry about that.
Yes, as you can see the chest (and upper back), sleeves and neckline need some smoothing, but the hip area is totally out of control, and I'm not sure the Morph Brush would be able to mend that easily.
At first I thought it was because I did the steps in a slightly different order than you explained here, but I just tried it using your steps, and got the same result, as you can see in the render above.
The t-shirt is part of OOT's Mega Wardrobe Bundle I bought when Dawn first came out, so she didn't have to run around naked in my first renders.
I think the mess was caused by 2 or 3 gently modeled folds in the hip area of the t-shirt.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Yeah, I got the same results from OOT's Mega Wardrobe. But, remember, that was released for Dawn at her initial release. A lot of Dawn rigging has changed since then, and OOT always has used her own method for creating those wonderful clothes she puts out.
Some things, rigged unconventionally or back when DAWN was new may not convert well.
Some things, rigged unconventionally or back when DAWN was new may not convert well.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Again, like any other figure, it depends on the rigging in the initial outfit - and the model to some degree.
In my opinion, TB's problem is Poser's grouping during the conversion process. I never let Poser do the grouping, but during a conversion in the Fitting Room, you have no other option.
Besides, TB said her results were from the Fitting Room and not an attempt to edit the morph in place. Frankly, I use the Fitting Room every day for rigging purposes, but I have never gotten good results for conversion from it. I get better results using Crossdresser.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
You're welcome, Pen. Always willing to share information if I have it.
Now, I'm gonna eat my words........tried the OOT Mega Wardrobe again this afternoon and got a good conversion to Diva. I should have spent a few more minutes with the morph brush fixing that pokethrough on her left thigh, but it still went very well.
Oh, now that looks good, and encouraging, because that mega bundle has some nice everyday things Diva could wear. Not all, but certainly the short and long sleeved shirts and the jeans/pants. The tube top? Nah don't think so. I also agree about OOT's work, and the fact that it was made for the initial Dawn base.
Anyway, I just played with Dawn's Skinny Jeans, and even though it still needs a little more work on the legs, and I need a smaller brush for the top above the belt, it's not bad. Not bad at all.
Anyway, I just played with Dawn's Skinny Jeans, and even though it still needs a little more work on the legs, and I need a smaller brush for the top above the belt, it's not bad. Not bad at all.
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Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Those jeans look good Miss B!