C8.5 Beta - Conforming Pumps on V4 broken?

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• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,784

  February 2013 edited December 1969

  I do not have those shoes but shoes always give me endless issues esp since I animate figures so I do this.
  export the shoes as an obj
  (for mapped textures this usually works better from studio)
  import the obj
  (reapply textures if needed)
  resize and align with feet with your figure in default position
  if you need a high heel pose use it but bear in mind the figure reverts to default position in the next step so lots of jumping between the spanner tab and hand tab needed.
  go into vertex mode using the spanner tool on left (not vertex room) so you can still see your figure
  with them selected choose symmetry on right
  now you can just select one shoe and rotate and size it to fit nice
  use softselect to shift induvidual bits that pokethrough and tweek them
  check periodically by clicking the hand icon next to the spanner going back to assembly room mode
  this needs to be done a lot using high heel poses

  now your shoes are fitted and lined up to the feet
  select them in the scene tab.
  hold shift
  select vicky or your figure of choice's hip

  with both selected go up the top to animation
  choose attach skeleton

  now they are rigged to the figure

  you can go into the vertex room and use the animation mode (between modeling and uv on right) then pick weightpainting brush to tidy up any wrongly boned vertices, just pick foot and toe bones and paint as needed.
• DustRider Posts: 2,691

  February 2013 edited December 1969

  Thanks Wendy! :-) Sounds like a relatively simple work around. When I get a chance I'll test a few high heeled shoes from here in 8.1 and 8.5 and post here to let everyone know if it seems to be a consistent problem with 8.5 (probably won't get to it until tomorrow - got another 12+ hour work day ahead of me).
• JoeMamma2000 Posts: 2,615

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  What specifically is the problem you're having? Is it the one shown in this image?

  If so, what I do is this:

  Once you have the pose applied that comes with the shoe to get the feet posed correctly, go to each shoe and zero out the X rotation for the shoe Toe bone (or was it the Foot bone...I think it was the Toe bone). That seems to snap the shoe into place. Just make sure you're doing the SHOE's toe bone, not the character's....

  You may also have to rotate the shoe's Foot bone into place.

  Another thing I do on occasion (as necessary) is to make the character's toe invisible so there's no poke-thru. And of course you want to apply the "foot for shoe" pose that comes with V4 or whatever.

  

  

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  Post edited by JoeMamma2000 on February 2013
• DustRider Posts: 2,691

  February 2013 edited December 1969

  Thanks!! That is exactly the problem I'm having. The key must be rotating the toe bone first, I was rotating the foot bone first, then rotating the toe bone, and things just always seemed to not work quite right - I'd get close but not quite there.
• JoeMamma2000 Posts: 2,615

  February 2013 edited December 1969

  dustrider said:

  The key must be rotating the toe bone first...

  Yeah, I think it is...

  What I do is just go to the X rotation value, which tends to start out as 60 or -60 degrees or something like that, and just erase that and put in 0.0