mcjShrinkWrapA for DS 4.5+ shrink wrap figures and objects - SAFE 2019 Update

mCasual

RAMWolff said:

You know, it occurred to me that perhaps you might actually develop a dynamics engine for DAZ Studio that can take simple obj's and drape them and then work up to more complex or outfits that were previously made. One of the factors that is gravely missing from DAZ Studio is a way use common and complex shapes to drape at the end users convenience rather than relying on that other system (which to me is too limiting).

the version i'll publish soon will be for "normalized" wrapper sheets/tubes
by normalized i mean -- ( like the primitive planes, and the tubes seen so far ) : rows and columns having a constant number of vertices
maybe later i'll add gravity which should give us interesting draping. but it wont be truly dynamic with interactions between constraints

non normalized wrapper objects are supported for the shrink process but not for the spandex effect
because my script has to analyze them and locate the rows, columns and rings of vertices before stretching them
and for now it can only figure easy stuff like grids

mCasual

somehow related to the shrink wrapper

with this topology ( architecture )

if i add selection-by-material ability to the script ( think i will )

then this could be treated as 3 grid-planes

with different material assignments, or it could be seen as 3 tubes

though my model is already well fitted, maybe a little shrink wrapping would add some credibility/realism

RAMWolff

Very nice! How about a nice tank top to go with the panties? :-)

mCasual

there's a nice tank-top for Aiko3 at LittleDragon's site http://littledragon.francemi.net/misc_01.htm

mCasual

RAMWolff said:

Very nice! How about a nice tank top to go with the panties? :-)

there’s a nice tank-top for Aiko3 at LittleDragon’s site http://littledragon.francemi.net/misc_01.htm

mCasual

RAMWolff said:

Very nice! How about a nice tank top to go with the panties? :-)

LittleDragon's tank top in action

Mostly Harmelss ( working title was mcjAnnoy )
for further aggravation, look up Caramelldansen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s4ghUUszKE

mCasual

will probably try to publish the new shrinkWrapping script this weekend

with an eye on usability for minimally complex structures like the short pants

in this case, i modeled them over an exported Aiko3, with her spandex" morph set at 67%

then i used mcjShrinkWrapA to push it onto Aiko

but for the next version of mcjShrinkWrap i'd like to be able to shrinh/drape/spandexity sections of a garment

RAMWolff

Coming along very nicely!

I've been absent lately. Been setting up my shiny new Windows 8 installation.... Just today getting back to things like attending my Marilyn M morph for Dawn. YAY!

patience55

Okay :-) shorts! -- says she hoping there's a little tutorial for that too ;-)

mCasual

Patience55 said:

Okay :-) shorts! -- says she hoping there's a little tutorial for that too ;-)

well maybe someday i'll do just that, but i don't really know the modern rigging ways applicable to Aiko3

been procrastinating on re-starting work on the shrink wrapper+spandex but i 'm pretty sure there will be advances this weekend :)

in other news i learned the terms "high waist cinch belt" and "high waist sailor shorts"

patience55

Casual said:

Patience55 said:

Okay :-) shorts! -- says she hoping there's a little tutorial for that too ;-)

well maybe someday i'll do just that, but i don't really know the modern rigging ways applicable to Aiko3

been procrastinating on re-starting work on the shrink wrapper+spandex but i 'm pretty sure there will be advances this weekend :)

in other news i learned the terms "high waist cinch belt" and "high waist sailor shorts"

lol ... not worried about the rigging! For some reason I have not quite got the nack for making the mesh on shorts fit that neatly. That's what I referring to.

Modern rigging as far as I'm concerned is to throw something on Genesis, and use the transfer utility tools. For A3, I have the clone.
[edited out by me - I got the FS tools for legacy working again ... and it was my fault that it wasn't.]

So, no rush, when it's available, as long as things remain stable around here, I would follow beautiful tutorial on how to make nice neat shorts ;-) And rig them.

mCasual

tomorrow, tomorrow i restart work on the shrink wrapper

( well i did change 1 line of code while making the belt/high-waist pants

patience55

That's beautiful modeling!

mCasual

Patience55 said:

That's beautiful modeling!

thanks, i think what i really need is the stretch/folds/wrinkles in the fabric to make it look more like fabric

patience55

Haven't got the texture on this computer, but am working on something that produces lots of nice wrinkles in any cloth!

Skirt and belt part basically done ... hope you like purple.

Tugpsx

Wow this is moving great. Thanks for sharing. Love what you have done thus far and getting great results.

mCasual

Tugpsx said:

Wow this is moving great. Thanks for sharing. Love what you have done thus far and getting great results.

thanks, i'm slowly restarting work on this, it's the last mile ( saying that but there's probably 5 miles to go :) )

Figure 3 - current work is to make the script usable with any orientation of the shrinkable cloth

Figure 5 : mold/press stretch-Y stretch-X

mCasual

geometry in 3D space is hard ! ( dont worry the floor is cushioned ) ... having issues when i try to project curved cloth ( like a section of a cylinder )

Figure 2 - in green and red the "convex hull" process , which is used to make cloth look as if it was under tension

GlennF

looking forward to the update.thanks for this script.

mCasual

GlennF said:

looking forward to the update.thanks for this script.

thanks!

today i work a bit more on the case of grid-like cloths
shown here is the easiest case where there a wall behind Aiko, so all collider "rays" hit something

patience55

Oh that would be good for encasing scifi characters in deep freeze display units :-)

3dOutlaw

Interesting, how does the calculation know to NOT press/bend between the legs, but it does press/bend under the breast area?

mCasual

3doutlaw said:

Interesting, how does the calculation know to NOT press/bend between the legs, but it does press/bend under the breast area?

there's 3 phases ,

-shrink-wrap ( project the cloth )
-stretch the horizontal threads
-stretch the vertical threads

in this last picture i didn't do the vertical stretching, else it would look like

I've been thinking of ways to add belts, a bit like in Poser Cloth simulation, you can have groups of vertices that are like glued in place

and i may use the surface textures as the way to specify what gets simply shrink-wrapped and what gets the spandex effect

mCasual

I’ve been thinking of ways to add belts, a bit like in Poser Cloth simulation, you can have groups of vertices that are like glued in place

and i may use the surface textures as the way to specify what gets simply shrink-wrapped and what gets the spandex effect

in the example below,

the yellow ( red + green ) vertices will be Shrink-wrapped And Horizontally spandexified
(like a tight skirt )

the white ( red + green + blue ) vertices will be Shrink-wrapped, Horizontally spandexified and vertically spandexified
( like a rigid belt )

the magenta ( red + blue ) vertices will be Shrink-wrapped, And vertically spandexified
( like uh suspenders )

mCasual

in another thread i posted a free script to create primitive planes that are better suited for the mcjShrinkWrap tasks

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/28830/

GlennF

Any Updates?

mCasual

GlennF said:

Any Updates?

i got diverted in the physics simulation project
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l6GdTCLSWs )

but will come back to this one,
the lattice-deformer prohject

and the mcjTeleblender project

soon'ish :)

ghastlycomic

Wow, this is getting close to Marvelous Designer cloth simulation. Almost to the point where it will work with patterns! Amazing work.

3dOutlaw

my bad I forgot to create the collider ...dismiss

mCasual

SAFE 2019 Update

Q. : Do you really need to update?

A : With the old version of this script if the wrapper object was a subdivided surface, and you saved this scene as a .duf file, the scene  file would become un-openable !!! 

A : The new version has 2 new options and 2 help buttons

A: Since mcjCollider is now Mac compatible, Mac afficionados can now use this script !

uses the services of the free mcjCollider
plugin to shrink wrap tubes around figures and objects

it's ready ! https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/mcjshrinkwrapa

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