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Converting conforming clothes to dynamic clothes
Where: Poser

Author: svdl
Created: 1/1/2005
Last Revision: 1/1/2005
Skill Level: Beginner
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Introduction


The process in short


The cloth simulator likes smart props best. So I will show you how to convert a conforming clothing figure to a smart prop. Then I will show how to set up the cloth simulator. The final result will look something like the image on this page.:

WARNING:


This process will not work on all conforming clothes. A frew definite no-nos:

  • Clothes that intersect the character. For instance all clothes that come with Poser for the P4 figures. The cloth simulator does not like clothing that intersects with the figure itself by default;

  • Clothes that consist of double-sided meshes, like the capes from the Princess sets by Baron Vlad Harkonnen;

  • Clothes that consist of separate meshes that have few or no vertices in common, like many clothes by BillyT.



The properties mentioned above have nothing to do with the quality of the conforming cloth itself! The clothes by BillyT and Baron Vlad Harkonnen are excellent conformers, but the way they are built prevents their conversion to dynamic cloth.

So check for these clothing properties (wireframe view is very useful here) before attempting the conversion. If one or more of the properties mentioned above are true, don’t bother to try. If none of the properties mentioned above apply, you’ve got a good chance that it will work.


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Comments

by shorterbus on Feb 3, 2005 12:31:12 am [homepage]

Thanks for the tutorial on converting conforming clothes to dynamic ones. It was well written and very helpful!
by saf on Mar 27, 2005 5:27:47 pm [homepage]

This tutorial is very helpful I have loads of clothes for Vic 3 and was looking to see if they could be converted to dynamics for use in Poser 6. My first attempt seems very promising.
Many Thanks.
by udgang99 on Apr 18, 2005 10:00:49 am [homepage]

This is an EXCELLENT tutorial!!! I have been playing around with different things to turn into dynamics ... so far it's been fun taking the caysuit for V3, oversizing it, and then dress V3 in it! :)
Also, BillyT's trenchcoat for V3 works great!
fun-fun-fun :)
by fuzion112 on Jun 1, 2005 11:29:21 am [homepage]

Thanks for the very infomative tutorial I've been looking for help on this topic. You made it so simple and easy to understand Now my clothing options are endless and no more bothersome magnets.
by zoe_shashini on Oct 2, 2005 7:08:34 pm [homepage]

Your tutorial is a godsend! Just thought I'd let you know it works for the V3 Morphing Fantasy Dress as well... looks best if only the skirt is in the dynamic group.
by paper-tiger on Nov 28, 2005 6:25:49 am [homepage]

This is a great tutorial! I love the flexibility(haha) of dynamic cloth, and now many of my beautiful-but-frustrating conforming clothes (hello, MFD) are seamlessly, dynamically posed for me. I LOVE it! Five stars!
*****
by kobanion on Nov 30, 2005 7:46:31 pm [homepage]

Thanks for an excellent, and very informative, lesson. I ran through it using V3 and the Jane Dress, and everything worked flawlessly -- with one exception.

Since there were, apparently, no seams to weld together, I got an unexpected result, to wit: an interesting, and unintentionally amusing, "wardrobe malfunction"; in other words, she busted her stitches, and the dress separated and fell away, albeit exactly as it should have done, under the circumstances.

So even in error, we learn things.

Good job. And extremely useful in future. (I just have to pay more attention to the craftsmanship of my models' clothes!)
by montyoum on Jan 16, 2006 6:56:15 pm [homepage]

It might just be me, but for some reason a lot of my simulations are stopping far before they last frame. I.E. I would put a skirt on a figure set to move for 30 frames and it would only go to say 8 or 9 depending on what type of animation it is. I've been trying to fix this for 3 days. And what really bugs me is that I COULD get it to work originally, and now it won't. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
by TSHamby on Dec 11, 2006 11:56:25 am [homepage]

This shall prove most useful ... thank you!
by jan_scrapper on Jan 24, 2007 5:35:57 pm [homepage]

After seeing this tutorial, I am going to try again in the cloth room. Thank you so much!!!
by Pete_xp on Feb 23, 2007 9:39:43 am [homepage]

Thank you for a great tutorial, I used the P4 Halter Top for the tutorial. I exported it out of poser, cut out the arm & neck plugs with blender, added a subsurf to it & sent it back in to poser. I then followed the rest of your tutorial, & my eyes nearly fell out of my head when the top went straight on to P7's Sydney.

This has really opened up the poser wardrobe, thanks so much.
**runs off to raid Posette's dresser**
by trfalk on Mar 4, 2007 2:25:50 am [homepage]

I've always viewed Poser as the animation software it was originally marketed as.. and this tutorial is much appreciated. The author's freebie dynamic items demonstrate how dynamic clothing can be.. but now we uses have a way of using conforming products too! Well done
by phlynn on Apr 13, 2007 6:15:54 pm [homepage]

Creating an animation? I understand the fundamentals of the cloth room, but I have a problem getting my head around say animating cloth and a walk cycle at the same time. If starting at pose "0" in the cloth room and my animation start point ins frame 30 I only want from frame 30 onwards. Any suggestions, or a tutorial on this would be great!
Thanks!
by novelist999 on Oct 18, 2007 10:52:31 pm [homepage]

Thanks for this tutorial! I can't wait to try it. I have tons of clothes that I wish were dynamic. :-)
by nwachinaemelu on Jan 31, 2008 9:42:31 am [homepage]

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by three3Dguy on Feb 15, 2008 3:19:18 pm [homepage]

Wow nobody who post comments here are a beginner?!? Wow!,..

I didn't have any ideas of knowing that this was a advance tutor for only power users!,.. I'm already am lost when you just mention no clothes intersects and what heck does a intersects look like in a Poser mesh object?

There our no examples of this intersect for me to understanding it. What do yo mean by intersects?,.. for a example, like a closed off neck and sleeves meaning a opening neck and where the arms pop-out?

Do I need to re-model the clothing V4 neck and sleeves (by cutting holes in those areas ) first then re-import it back in Poser?

What if some of the clothing are modelled as solid mesh object if there is such a thing in V4 clothing which won't work either?
by Goldenthrush on Feb 24, 2009 10:03:03 pm [homepage]

Oh man, once again you save my sanity!! This worked great for the V3 Starlet dress and its serious lack of movement morphs! Thank you SO much!
by Fauvist on May 18, 2009 8:15:41 pm [homepage]

It didn't work for me. I went through the whole tutorial 3 times. I tried it in Poser 6. The figure I used was Victoria 2, and the clothing I used was the 1947 Dress by Rwaller
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=18198&

Victoria burst out of the dress like the Increadible Hulk.

by Gyna on Jun 1, 2010 2:45:38 pm [homepage]

Awesome! i tried it on an evilinnocence top and damned if it didn't work beautifully! thanks!!
by amarok on Nov 21, 2010 1:29:01 pm [homepage]

Cristal clear tutorial. Thank you very much, this excellent explication open new frontiers.
by SouthTuna on Mar 14, 2012 9:27:28 am [homepage]

Awesome! It works!

However, I have just one question-- How would I "Save the prop to your prop library.", mentioned in the last paragraph on page 5? I have no idea how to do that.
Other than that, totally awesome tutorial! Thanks for teaching! :D
by Challeron on Oct 27, 2012 12:08:27 pm [homepage]

SouthTuna, nobody seems to be paying attention to this thread any more (except me, because I have to keep referring to it every time I want to make dynamic cloth; short-term memory problem, heh heh); but to "save the prop to your prop library", click on the "Props" button in your "Library" window (the Library is where you get your Figures from; it should still be available in the Cloth Room, but you can go back to the Pose Room and call it from there), and – with the prop skirt still selected – click the "+" button at the bottom of the Library window.

Hope this helps.…
by SouthTuna on Dec 8, 2012 9:57:46 am [homepage]

Oh thanks Chall. I stopped Poser/DAZ for awhile but recently started again. Thanks for the tip. I refer to this rather often as well. Haha same problem I guess.
Thanks again. I appreciate. :]

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