a 4-phase ERC

mCasual

in the few dresses i made and some dresses/shirts i studied,
the CollarBend morph or the geometry of the clothes itself pulls
the dress/shirt away from the character. which is a way to avoid poke-through.

but for Aiko's bodycon dress i want to avoid this

so i'll split the CollarBend morph in 4 or 5 morphs

i read a bit about ERCs on this web site ( http://www.atlantis23.com/erc_download.html )
and here's how i'll probably implement the 4-phase CollarBend

in the dress's "BODY node" a constant value of 1, which i should probably hide

  valueParm PBMmcjone
   {
   name PBMmcjone
   initValue 1.00
   hidden 0
   forceLimits 1
   min 0
   max 2
   trackingScale 0.01
   keys
    {
    static  0
    k  0  1.00
    }
   interpStyleLocked 0
   }

in the Collars and the chest actors i have 4 morphs

  targetGeom JCMlCollarBendA
   {
   name JCMlCollarBendA
...
   forceLimits 1
   min 0
   max 1
...
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    lCollar:1
    zrot
   deltaAddDelta 0.080000
...
   }

  targetGeom JCMlCollarBendB
   {
...
   forceLimits 1
   min 0
   max 1
...
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    lCollar:1
    zrot
   deltaAddDelta 0.080000
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    BODY:1
    PBMmcjone
   deltaAddDelta -1
...
   }


  targetGeom JCMlCollarBendC
   {
...
   forceLimits 1
   min 0
   max 1
...
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    lCollar:1
    zrot
   deltaAddDelta 0.080000
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    BODY:1
    PBMmcjone
   deltaAddDelta -2
...
   }

  targetGeom JCMlCollarBendD
   {
...
   forceLimits 1
   min 0
   max 1
...
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    lCollar:1
    zrot
   deltaAddDelta 0.080000
   valueOpDeltaAdd
    Figure
    BODY:1
    PBMmcjone
   deltaAddDelta -3
...
   }

in Fig 1 you can see how each morph-phase is activated one after the other

in animated Fig 2 you can see approximately the intended result

ReDave

That's simply awesome!
But were do you set the ranges for each morph?

Edit: ah don't need to, clever!

wowie

Thanks, casual.

I see what you did there (Slaving the extra morphs to the first morph). That's another way to do a 'stackable' morph. I do wonder how complex the code will get when you need to make adjustment morphs/ERC with more than one axis.

My method is slightly different (and required more steps).