Not talking about dynamic cloth here. I'm asking about tools for designing original clothing models. If you look at plugins for apps like lightwave, they have items to let a prop be shaped around another prop easier. For example: http://smorigin.scm.cityu.edu.hk/intranet/lm3/docs/how_tos/cloth/ or better, does carrara have anything that might simplify a project like this: http://www.royriggs.com/tanktop.html Let's say for example that I was 'As Shanim', minus all of his knowledge ( :) ), and I wanted to make one of the outfits he sells for V3. So I've got this 3D modeeling app now, and I'm a wannabe modeller, and I know I want to perhaps make a loincloth-leotard like thingy (as a random example), and a pair of boots. Is there a tutorial anywhere that tells me, as a newbie to the process, what to do? And is Carrara a good choice for doing it? Somewhere a few years back I saw a lightwave or Cinema plugin that would do something similar to the Poser dynamic cloth room, but when starting with just a cube wrapped around your figure and sort of 'shrinky-dinking' it down onto the figure. Lacking such a tool, would it be good to do something like make a cube, stick a figure inside it, and then do some boolean extractions and then keep only that inside surface cutaway of your ex-cube, tweaked and scaled around to taste for a garment? While the Poser dynamic cloth room is nifty, you have to start with an existing prop to use it, and its the creating of that existing prop that I'm seeking here. For people who do know how to make complex items like the clothing we see being made for Poser figures, where and how did you learn to do it and if you had to start learning today, would you think you could pull it off with Carrara and the advice out there for Carrara users in the Carrara community? :) This one might be a tall order for a question... But that's where I stand. :p I know nothing, but I know where I want to get (making clothing props for my Poser characters). With Carrara 1 my big frustration was not seeing how to close the gap with knowledge, and a set of tools that didn't seem fitted to the job when I tried learning with tutorials prepared for the higher end apps...

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