Pulling up jeans?
glennblackphotos
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Hi I am trying to create some images that I would later like to animate of my character getting dressed and pulling up there jeans/leggings ect.
I have noticed some products in the market place that have mophing clothes but wondered if Dforce replaces the need for morphing clothes?
Can someone please give me some help and advise in the least troublesome workflow I should take in approaching this idea please?
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A suitable set of jeans could work with dForce, though they'd then need a dForce AddOn to do them up if they were to work for wearing. I'm not sure which, if any, of the available products would work for this.
This is pretty much the Holy Grail of 3D animation. Pixar are the ones that managed to pull off cloth physics the best though their approach has its own limitations. Animating a character getting dressed is something even they shy away from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPiqUryHfs
DForce simulates the 3D mesh as if it's cloth but it's very limited in its application. There are many products which can be simulated with dForce which get good results but something that can help you animate the whole process of dressing/undressing a character is currently technologically impossible. The way I would go about it is use implied-dressing/undressing. Avoid all the shots like unbottoning/buttoning the pants and just show the bottom half of the pants slide off or on the legs.
Very interesting thanks.
I can recommend you this Products:
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/taking-it-off-for-greybros-g8-jeans-and-tee-male-edition/136188/ (there is also a Female version )
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/greybros-unisex-jeans-for-g8/135846
https://www.renderotica.com/store/sku/59649_All-In-One-For-Manly-Denim-Jeans-G8M , requires this: https://www.renderotica.com/store/sku/59411_Manly-Denim-Jeans-For-G8M
(male clothes fit also much times to females, in case you wanna use it on Female. )
Edit: Sparkman make also good dressable clothes:
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/dforce-boyfriend-jeans-for-genesis-8-female/132943/
That was 2 Clicks, 10seconds work.
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In Daz Studio should you get Mesh grabber + Rotations its a Must have! and it Allows you to do that undressing.
Also I would recommend, just use Dforce jeans and go to the Surface tab and set the Stretchness/Bend to a negative value + collission offset to very low.
To make the dropping a bit smoother, you should add a Weight Map and stopp the dforce at the middle. I show you how.
I will edit this post soon.
I made a Video and... during the Tutorial did my Weight Map Brush dissappear -.-.... I hate bugs :/
And... I have not a single Jeans for G8F which is "marked" as Dforce, but the one I used have dforce from base on it.
https://www.daz3d.com/dusty-hd-cowgirl-outfit-for-genesis-8-females
I cut now the video, where I show how you make this.
Optional:
https://www.daz3d.com/fit-control-add-on-for-genesis-3-and-8-bundle
That can also help, but... it makes for me too much problems, because I use a lot clothes on a char and the addon simulates ALL items, also the unchecked and not visible :/
Here is the Video made for you and everyone (I will also post it to the Freebies).
that is brilliant many thanks.