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Marvelous designer to Daz studio questions

thenotoriousjedthenotoriousjed Posts: 397
edited February 2017 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I downloaded a trial version of Marvelous Designer and made this very basic blouse and dress for the 3d universe toon mouse. Now I need to know what steps are involved in adding textures/uv's to it and importing it to Daz as a clothing item that moves with the character. It's just an object now. Please know I'm a complete newbie to making anything, but I want to teach myself to use programs like MD and blender. Any help is appreciated. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804
    edited February 2017

    To make it move with the figure you would need to use the Transfer utility to rig it, or you could - I believe, possibly with FBX or Collada format - load the posed mouse into Marvellous Designed and drape the clothing there. I'm not sure about UV mapping - I was under the impression that, at least for the fabric, that was automatic since the fabric is just planes so you should simply be able to assign a tiling fabric pattern or shader in the Surfaces pane of DS.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,240
    edited February 2017

    SickleYield has a series of YouTube videos on the subject. Here is a link to the first one. This one might be even more pertinent. Look through her videos. She has a lot of helpful things for Daz Studio users.

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  • thenotoriousjedthenotoriousjed Posts: 397
    Richard Haseltine said:

    To make it move with the figure you would need to use the Transfer utility to rig it, or you could - I believe, possibly with FBX or Collada format - load the posed mouse into Marvellous Designed and drape the clothing there. I'm not sure about UV mapping - I was under the impression that, at least for the fabric, that was automatic since the fabric is just planes so you should simply be able to assign a tiling fabric pattern or shader in the Surfaces pane of DS.

    I realized that about the UV's, but the transfer utility in Daz doesn't show the Toon Mouse as a selectable item.

  • thenotoriousjedthenotoriousjed Posts: 397

    I can use the transfer utility for a shirt made for Genesis.

  • TottallouTottallou Posts: 555

    I don't have the Toon Mouse but I have the Frog & MD & the frog does not appear in the transfer utility either but if you select it then go to Figure - Rigging -Convert Figure to Weight Mapping - Pick Triax it then appears & you can then run transfer utility as you do with Genesis

    I do not know if doing it this way will make the clothes fit or not as I have not made anything for the frog but its worth a try :)

    Let us know how you get on & if you do solve this

     

  • thenotoriousjedthenotoriousjed Posts: 397
    edited February 2017
    Tottallou said:

    I don't have the Toon Mouse but I have the Frog & MD & the frog does not appear in the transfer utility either but if you select it then go to Figure - Rigging -Convert Figure to Weight Mapping - Pick Triax it then appears & you can then run transfer utility as you do with Genesis

    I do not know if doing it this way will make the clothes fit or not as I have not made anything for the frog but its worth a try :)

    Let us know how you get on & if you do solve this

     

    Yay, it works! Thank you. I've got a lot of playing and practicing to do to get a good product, but at least now I know I can make it work if I decide to get the Marvelous Designer program and make my own toon clothes. smiley

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  • DarkEdgeDesignDarkEdgeDesign Posts: 489

    MD is a awesome program, look at exporting with a higher density mesh either tri's or quad's.

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