How to make clothes conform to a knife?

Patroklos

Is there a way to make an item, such as a knife, part of a character, or other method, so that clothes will conform to it?

Richard Haseltine

I'm not sure what you mean.

Patroklos

Ok,  I want a character to secrete a knife on his person, mauybe under his shirt, it will leave some sign of it being there in the shirt in the form of a slight bulge. Is it possible to simulate this, perhaps by making the knife part of the body of the character, or in any other way?

SimonJM

I think I follow what you mean and I think the only way woudl be via feo-graft - to 'extend' the figure. but I do not think the new mesh added is fully recognised as part of the 'parent' figure.

Patroklos

Thanks, how would I acheive that?

mlominy

Here's ma take:

Hide everything in the scene except character and knife.

Export as obj. Un-hide everything and import saved .obj.

Hide .obj and make clothes collide with it.

 

kaotkbliss

You could also use the Simtenero shape reprojector to combine the figure and the knife into a morph for the character, then the shirt would automatically collide as the knife projection would be part of the character.

WendyLuvsCatz

make the figure collide with the knife with it inside slowly edged out

Richard Haseltine

or use a dForm, or do a drape with dForce if the clothing works with that.

Patroklos

kaotkbliss said:

You could also use the Simtenero shape reprojector to combine the figure and the knife into a morph for the character, then the shirt would automatically collide as the knife projection would be part of the character.

That sounds good, that would definately work?