Aww, thanks you two! Soon now, I think.

The feeling when the librarian comes back from the archives with just the volume you were looking for...

I really need to find myself a library scene to go with this outfit.

I think I'm zeroing in on the style I want for the "bookworm" outfit, but now I'm considering adding a shrug, as well. Always one thing more... (Also debating whether I should make the top a tad longer.)

I voted for ankle boots, but I do like the knee-high ones with this outfit.

Testing some socks that I plan to include with the bookworm outfit (bikini not included).

Too bad she’s French. If she were Australian, you could just give her some flip-flops (a.k.a. thongs).

As someone who switched from wearing Dr Martens shoes to Converses a few years back for foot and ankle health reasons, I think I have a different idea of what "no heel" means. So, I'll say ankle boots with standard "flat" heels. :-)

like you said, it's not a problem for poser.  just for uvmapper & related uv readers that can't see beyond the default tile. 

Yes, for the adventurer outfit I put the UVs for each item into a separate tile so I could see the layout better. Poser has been able to handle that since I can remember, as is pretty much any modern 3d software. If I remember correctly, there's a setting in the texture map node, which should be set to tiled. Will check after work.

Normally, I develop each clothing item separately, so everything's in the default tile.

ETA: if the multiple tiles are a problem to some, I can try to remember not to do that in future items.

You can download the free UVMapper. This will alow you to load the obj files and save an UV template in bmp format.

By popular demand, I've started on a long-sleeved version of the "adventurer" shirt.

@rhia474 I see that you've got the outfit working now. That's a relief.

Just a quick summary to address points that came up in the discussion:

- I save my clothing items as props. In P12 and P13, the default seems to be that the geometry then gets embedded into the .pp2 files, so there are no separate .obj's and nothing in the geometry folder.

- I do indeed use procedural textures for all my clothes. In part that's because I'm too lazy to search for fitting textures or draw my own, but it also makes it easy to modify colors, rescale etc. after the fact.

- That said, I take care to have good UVs. These are automatically generated by Marvelous Designer, but it's a bit temperamental about it, so I have to apply some tricks to make all the pattern pieces have the same scaling, get the UVs to match along certain seams and such things.

- The prop's geometry is indeed stored within the .pp2 in .obj format, but that does not make a .pp2 the same as an .obj. If some software accepts it as such, I would not trust that software much. :-) Probably best to export from Poser if an .obj is what you want.

- I do not provide UV templates with my items. Is that what you were looking for, @SIGASIGA? If I find an easy way to produce them with either MD or Blender, I'm happy to provide templates with my future clothing items.

hi,

you are very creative and productive.

Thanks! I often take items I made earlier and modify them, so that helps with the productivity. For example, the pinafore is based on a pleated shirt I made for Antonia. The crop top started as a shortened version of the adventurer shirt that I cut the arms off.

Would you agree to share your knowledge and experience of making clothes.

Happy to, but I'm not really an expert. I just make stuff up as I go, and sometimes it seems to work. One important tip that YouTube taught me is to always hem your clothing items. Hems give stability and make the cloth fall much nicer, and in addition give it a bit of a 3d edge. There's a little trick to constructing hems that work well in Poser dynamic clothes, which I may make a separate post about later.

For my part, I have projects in progress with Clo3d/Marvelous Designer on the LFpro and LF2 avatar but the import into Poser in OBJ is not always satisfactory with conformal clothing.

Here is one with odf's fabulous, free and easy to sim Adventurer Outfit (maybe a long-sleeve version of the shirt for the future?):

Thirded!