What prevents Daz from doing a cloth room similar to Poser?

Testing6790

I've always wondered, and always hoped it was in the works, but I'm too curious! The Dynamic Clothing Control plugin is slick, so I don't understand why Daz, or anyone, make a "clothify" plugin. I'd easily drop $50 on that plugin. I understand that Opitex uses a pretty expensive engine to do theirs, but Poser Smith Micro obviously has their own.

Is it a IP conflict with SM? A conflict of interest with Opitex? A simple lack of technology? A WIP? (:D)

My guess is probably the risk of putting in all the extra effort for perhaps not enough interest? I may be willing shell out the big bucks, but maybe not enough people would?

mjc1016

Paradigm67 said:

I've always wondered, and always hoped it was in the works, but I'm too curious! The Dynamic Clothing Control plugin is slick, so I don't understand why Daz, or anyone, make a "clothify" plugin. I'd easily drop $50 on that plugin. I understand that Opitex uses a pretty expensive engine to do theirs, but Poser Smith Micro obviously has their own.

Is it a IP conflict with SM? A conflict of interest with Opitex? A simple lack of technology? A WIP? (:D)

My guess is probably the risk of putting in all the extra effort for perhaps not enough interest? I may be willing shell out the big bucks, but maybe not enough people would?

It's many things and nothing at all...and no, it's not a conflict with SM or an IP issue, as almost every 3D suite has some sort of 'cloth room'. Probably the biggest chunk of the reason is that whatever was supposed to happen between Optitex and Daz just hasn't...and there's no real word if it is just slowed down to a slower than normal 'soon' or has fallen apart totally.

Testing6790

So, somewhere in the middle of "WIP" and "Opitex"

Renpatsu

From my point of view, DAZ did mainly try to improve content creation in DAZ Studio as of late (and quite brilliantly for most part), which goes along with DAZ being primarily a content store. Personally, I don't think we'll see a generic dynamic cloth plugin from DAZ, but I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two dynamic plugins from PAs this year - work has already begun.

Jaderail

The Nice people who brought us the Look At My Hair plugin are working on a dynamics for Daz Studio plugin right now. I've been looking at it and believe it will be good once finished. They have a few examples posted in one of the threads.

Testing6790

Any chance you can link one of them? I've been doing a lot of reading about dynamics and I haven't heard of this, yet. This is wonderful news!

fixmypcmike

Paradigm67 said:

Any chance you can link one of them? I've been doing a lot of reading about dynamics and I haven't heard of this, yet. This is wonderful news!

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/38257/

icprncss

Given the fact that the Optitex application is proprietary and DAZ turned over all aspects of cloth dynamics to Optitex after the merger with Gizmoz, I started to have my doubts there would ever be a cloth creation plugin coming from them. It would involve opening up their proprietary code and that's not something companies like doing.

Actually, Curious Labs was the company that owned Poser back when Poser acquired the face room, hair room and cloth room.

The face room is a scaled back version of Singular Inversion's Face Gen.

The cloth room is by Size8 Software.

Hermit Crab

I've been building my own draping clothes in Carrara using Physics. There's quite a long thread in the Carrara forum but most of the posts were from me and a couple of others only!

Anyway I just posted this example there a little while ago.