Creating Clothing against a Genesis 2 Morph

twalling

I'm trying to make custom clothes for some Genesis 2 figures--I'm using Marvelous Designer. I make an obj out of a morphed character and model the clothes on it so it fits perfectly, but I'm stumped as to how to rig this properly.

I've seen this tutorial: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/modeling/tutorials/creating_clothing_against_genesis_morph_shape/start

Will that work the same way on Genesis 2 as it did on Genesis?

I've tried this method, but hit a critical stopping point when it tells me to select "morph" under the source shape-- I often use more than one morph to get the shape I'm after. They made one out of Aiko, but what if I want to make one against a pregnant Olympia with the "implants" morph turned on?

Is there a way to bake the current shape into one morph that would show up in the menu when you select "morph" from the "source shape" in the Transfer Utility?

Thanks for any answers to this vexing problem!

Herald of Fire

Working with multiple simultaneous morphs is a nightmare for me. I too would be very interested to see if there's an easy way to go about this. I've been making clothes using the Growing Up morphs which includes both the Youth morph and Youth posture. Getting it to follow one is easy enough, but getting it to work with both feels a lot harder.

I hope you get an answer to this interesting conundrum as it will no doubt solve a multitude of my own issues.

Richard Haseltine

Have you tried using "Current" as the source shape, assuming it is still morphed?

Bejaymac

Build it around the base shape and T-pose, then reshape the mesh to fit your morphed shape and add it as a morph to the clothing.

Only draw back is that G1 and G2 both use the "auto follow" system, which will dump skin tight morphs into your clothing that match the dials you spun to make your character.

twalling

Yes, I have tried "current" and it shifted the positioning of the clothing item.

Building the clothes on the non-morphed version of G2 is not an option I'm interested in. I want to build the clothes in Marvelous Designer against the shape of the character so that it fits the character, without stretching or distortion that you'd get from morphing.

There's GOT to be a way to do this. G2 is such a versatile figure, there HAS to be a way to make non-distorted clothes for them.

I'm still wondering if there's a way to make a full-body morph off the current dials that would show up in the "source shape" window..

Richard Haseltine

Make sure there's no translation or scaling being triggered by any of the morphs you are using.

Tramp Graphics

The trick I've always read for fitting clothes to various shapes for Genesis (and Genesis 2 I presume) is you first make the outfit for the base figure, then you create custom Full Body Morphs for the various shapes. The best person to talk to for that is SickleYield. She's an expert at that. She uses Blender, however.

twalling

Richard Haseltine said:

Make sure there's no translation or scaling being triggered by any of the morphs you are using.

Thanks, I'll check that out this evening.

twalling

Nope, didn't work, the clothes still jump.

Marmalade Boy

Hi Twalling,

I am not sure if you found an answer to this yet but just in case you did not, this is how I usually work.

1. I used the minotaur 6 body with Freak 5 superFreak
2. exported from Daz, imported into MD and created cloths.
3. run simulation and then export as OBJ.
4. import into Daz and use the settings pictured for transfer utility.