Ready ! - mcjA3BodyconF - Slim fit dress ( bodycon ) for Aiko3

mCasual

today's small step

the 4 dress shapes that will be used to form the 4-phases-CollarBend-morph
( it's in fact the dress being rebuilt using a shrink-wrapping script )

JimmyC_2009

Cute, that really is a 'little' black dress :)

mCasual

JimmyC_2009 said:

Cute, that really is a 'little' black dress :)

hopefully i'll be able to reuse the work done here and tools for other dresses and well, summer clothes when it comes

mCasual

today's improvement:

yesterday you saw the 4 dress shapes that will form a 4-phase-morph

today you see the 4 morphs in action

the collar bones were rotated by 1-degree steps

there's no poke-through, even as the dress stays tightly wrapped

( a script is emulating the ERC mechanism for now )

you can also see the plane that was used to during the shrink-wrap operations

JimmyC_2009

Better and better.

mCasual

Aiko3 bodycon news
integrating the morphs in 4.5 didnt work as planned
so i'm moving the dress dev team (me and imaginary crew) to daz studio 3
here you can see the lCollarBend1 morph action on the dress

second image is a first attempt at blending the collarBend morph
when only one arm is lifted

cwichura

Does this mean this dress will be a DS3 item only, then? If so, many folks, myself included, won't be able to use it. DAZ doesn't even let you download DS3 anymore, do they?

JimmyC_2009

You can ask Support. They may allow it if you really need it.

mCasual

cwichura said:

Does this mean this dress will be a DS3 item only, then? If so, many folks, myself included, won't be able to use it. DAZ doesn't even let you download DS3 anymore, do they?

oh it just means, i'll use DS3 to complete building the dress
but this dress itself will be compatible with all versions of Daz Studio and all versions of Poser

mCasual

here's the latest multi-phased-collar-bend demo

the way the middle part of the dress moves is not entirely satisfactory

stronghands

I've been lurking and watching this. Looks good, very good, and I appreciate the care you take to make it so.

Thanks for being so precise, and I look forward to seeing this finished.

robkelk

cwichura said:

Does this mean this dress will be a DS3 item only, then? If so, many folks, myself included, won't be able to use it. DAZ doesn't even let you download DS3 anymore, do they?

I have yet to find a DS3 resource that doesn't also work in DS4.

(It's the other way around that's sometimes problematical.)

sjfryer_a638239a69

So are you still working on this? It looks pretty good as it is.

mCasual

so, to recap ... :)

i made a slim-fit dress then worked of a 4-phased collarBend morph

it works pretty good but not perfectly

what i'll do very soon is to publish the body con dress in its present state

i just have to add the thigh/buttock bend morphs

( which explains why Aiko was always standing straight in past renders )

mCasual

( working on the "sit" or "walk" morph )

mCasual

progress report

worked a bit on the leg-sit-or--walk morph

for small leg-joints rotations, like during a walk it's not needed though

stronghands

It's looking good. Very good. Love the spectral texture, and...ok, I admit it...the only image I enlarged for better viewing was the equations on the chalkboard. I'm such a geek....:red:

mCasual

stronghands07 said:

It's looking good. Very good. Love the spectral texture, and...ok, I admit it...the only image I enlarged for better viewing was the equations on the chalkboard. I'm such a geek....:red:

i used this while trying to figure the rotations of the vertices as they are rotated around the buttock and thigh joints

but i'll use a sort of quirk of DS 4.5 to do the job for me

i create the leg-bend morph, which fixes poke-through for a leg-bend angle of 90 degrees
and it's moderately easy since i work in transformed space

then (if all goes as planned) when i save the figure and i reload it, Daz Studio
made all the complicated work that moved my morph up the
to-do list it goes through when displaying the figure

shown below, the 2 leg-bend morphs in action ( in DS 3.1 )

and the song that goes with it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZPl2DXaI8

mCasual

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

mCasual

good news i found the way to take a morph applied to a posed/morphed clothing item,
and transform it into a standard early-applied base figure morph

and i'll add an unrelated image because that's so fun :)

a reference image to study how real-life bodycons react to sitting poses

mCasual

Bodycon news Sunday edition

so i was able to make the 3 leg bend/sit morphs

there's a little imprecision error to fix

then i have to rig it ( or not ... i could leave it to the owner to adjust them manually )

so release wont be today 'cause i want to change my mind maybe watch youtube vidz or something non-productive like that :)

mCasual

bodycon news update

the leg-bend/sit morphs are now part of the DS3/poser-compatible figure

( whereas before they were only "living" inside DS4.5 )

meaning ... it''s not ready but but but i'm not stuck ! :)

TheCastellan

Casual said:

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

what stockings and boots are those, if one might ask?

mCasual

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

what stockings and boots are those, if one might ask?

they are the mcjA3OTKBoots by me and you can get them for free at
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcja3otkboots
you can see the making-of forum thread here (with many renders )
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/4975/

the illustrated index for my site is at

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/home

i didn't make many clothing items, mostly scripts

TheCastellan

Casual said:

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

what stockings and boots are those, if one might ask?

they are the mcjA3OTKBoots by me and you can get them for free at
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcja3otkboots
you can see the making-of forum thread here (with many renders )
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/4975/

the illustrated index for my site is at

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/home

i didn't make many clothing items, mostly scripts

How do you make the knee high strapy sandals to stay on Aiko's feet? When I parent them, they move off quite a bit. o_O

mCasual

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

what stockings and boots are those, if one might ask?

they are the mcjA3OTKBoots by me and you can get them for free at
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcja3otkboots
you can see the making-of forum thread here (with many renders )
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/4975/

the illustrated index for my site is at

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/home

i didn't make many clothing items, mostly scripts

How do you make the knee high strapy sandals to stay on Aiko's feet? When I parent them, they move off quite a bit. o_O

i think you have to select the shoes and create a keyframe
if the thing to keyframe is a figure, you do a "Memorize / Figure Pose" followed by a "Restore Figure Pose"
if the thing to keyframe is a prop/object , you do a "Memorize / Selected Item" followed by a "Restore Selected Item"
you access the Parameters Tab option menu by clicking in the upper-right-corner of the Parameters tab

there's also a "Parent Items in Place" menu option in the Scene Tab which is related to this issue

mCasual

bodycon news update

now that the legs bend morphs are in place i have to tweak them for the intermediary positions

TheCastellan

Casual said:

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

TheCastellan said:

Casual said:

that's the (brand new!) sit morph

so uh the always hazardous prediction for a release date would be this weekend

----

* note that this Quad amplifier and Tuner are low'ish-poly props available for free on my site )

what stockings and boots are those, if one might ask?

they are the mcjA3OTKBoots by me and you can get them for free at
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcja3otkboots
you can see the making-of forum thread here (with many renders )
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/4975/

the illustrated index for my site is at

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/home

i didn't make many clothing items, mostly scripts

How do you make the knee high strapy sandals to stay on Aiko's feet? When I parent them, they move off quite a bit. o_O

i think you have to select the shoes and create a keyframe
if the thing to keyframe is a figure, you do a "Memorize / Figure Pose" followed by a "Restore Figure Pose"
if the thing to keyframe is a prop/object , you do a "Memorize / Selected Item" followed by a "Restore Selected Item"
you access the Parameters Tab option menu by clicking in the upper-right-corner of the Parameters tab

there's also a "Parent Items in Place" menu option in the Scene Tab which is related to this issue

Sounds like a poser thing, I gots me Daz. ^_^;;

mCasual

TheCastellan said:

it's in Daz Studio

the parameters tab is normally present on your screen

if not it's made visible using the Windows/Pane(Tabs) menu

then in the upper-right corner of the Parameters tab

there's a button that brings up actions that can be performed on whatever is currently selected

memorizing and restoring the selected item or figure pose effectively "keyframes" the object

and this usually prevents the shoes from jumping away when you parent them to a body part

mCasual

the batteries of test Amy has to go through!