What I'm picking up from you Laurie and from Mark is that the challenge is the room itself. Lots of settings, the purposes of which are not really clear. Whilst throwing a conforming item on a figure and conforming it is a no-brainer (two steps, done), dynamic is by its sheer wealth of options a megalo-cephalic.

A bit like Wordpad and Word. More options, more to learn.

I do want to learn this. I like how it looks when it is done. I've read a few cloth room tutorials, but they seem to not mesh in terms of workflow. One author I read indicated that it was really designed for animators. I just want stuff to drape naturally. Seems to me that should be a relatively simple thing to do. Pose your figure, then drape your cloth on it, sort-of like in Blender. But that's not it, is it? That's not how it's done? You have to start with your figure in zeroed pose? Now, if my figure is sitting in a quasi-"The_Thinker" position, how long do you think it would take for the average human to attain that position from the Michelangelo T pose? Two seconds? Three seconds? I'm talking comfortably. And this frames thing: Movies used to go at 16 frames per second. Now, there are currently three main frame rate standards in the TV and movie-making business: 24p, 25p, and 30p. So, which is Poser using when it says frames?

For me to go from the T-position to sitting in an armchair with my hands folded in my lap and one knee crossed demurely over the other takes at least 3 seconds. That's moving quickly, not leisurely. So, to drape a skirt is going to take an animation of somewhere between 72 and 90 frames.

Sheesh!

Wonder if they are looking at perhaps allowing draping of figures without the T-pose at frame 0 requirement. Has the cloth room changed much since Pose 5 at all, per those who use it much? Wonder exactly where development is on Cloth Room for Poser 9.

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