Clothing Issues
dreambornegaming
Posts: 28
Hi, everyone! I am just starting to make clothing for use in Daz Studio using Blender. I got some really good results with the armor that I made for my last render, but my second project has hit a snag. I designed a leather kilt-like garment for a warrior I am making using Gen8 as the base. I ported my clothing into Daz after I was satisfied with it, and it looked really good. I used the transfer utility to affix it to the Gen8 model as I had done with the suit of armor (I chose "none" for the projection template, since it didn't really fit any of the offered options), and ran it through. When I tried moving my figure within it, however, I discovered that instead of moving in a way natural for such a garment, it moved in bizarre ways that were in exact correlation to the ways in which I moved the figure, deforming the garment horribly. Does anyone know how to get it to react and move properly to movement of the legs?
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Skirts are usually not rigged to directly follow the movement of the legs as it often leads to lots of distortion and weird behaviour, they usually use specific bones to pose it properly. You would need to use a dress/long tunic or skirt template when using the transfer utility, and/or modify the rigging afterwards.
What I want it to do is hang naturally, but if there is pressure applied to it from the inside by the figure's leg(s) due to posing, to have it move and flow naturally as a result. Can you recommend a place to learn how to rig it properly?? Using the TU is all I know, sadly.
I don't think that's possible without a dynamic draping system. Daz doesn't have a native dynamic system, but there are options; there's the VWD plugin, or draping the outfit in Blender or some other application and then bringing it into Daz Studio.
I was really hoping to be able to share my work with others, but it appears that THIS outfit is not the one to try it with, since it will only really be able to be fitted for a specific pose at a time. Alright, thanks a ton!