Need Help Finding A Thread

Faeryl Womyn

I know I saw a thread somewhere on how to make dforce clothes from scratch, yet I can't seem to find it, been searching all day and have a headache now...lol Does anyone know where this thead is? I have a dress I want to make and need to make sure I do it correctly for dforce. I have no idea if I need to rig it or do any weight mapping.

Odaa

A few pages in the middle of this thread deal with that: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/208141/how-to-use-dforce-creating-a-blanket-draping-clothes-on-furniture-and-much-more-commercial#latest

The short version is that if you model the clothing to fit the default pose of your preferred figure and are willing to live with doing animated dforce simulations everytime you use it, you don't need to rig it. Weight-mapping in the context of unrigged, dforce clothing is mostly important for making rigid pieces stay put.

DrNewcenstein

Marvelous Designer is available on Steam (the game distribution service) for considerably less than buying it directly ($320 vs $490 for a perpetual license). There are also subscription plans - $50 a month, or $300 a year.

With a perpetual license, you get affordable upgrades to the next major release (currently $122 from 7.5 to 8), but with the Steam version, each new version is $320. I don't think you can convert the Steam version to a Subscription, or get a discount on the Perpetual.

It's laughably simple to use, and overly powerful. A lot of what you're seeing for sale these days has Marvelous Designer written all over it. There are elements of the Daz community who have been influencing MD's development over the last few years (since version 4 at least), to the point that there is a Daz Studio import/export scaling option.

Faeryl Womyn

Thanks Odaa, that links has lots of information I can check.

Thanks for the suggestion Dr Newcenstein, however, you mention nothing of how to use these clothes modelled in MD with dforce, which is what I was asking for. As far as I can tell MD is just another modelling program.

Richard Haseltine

Don't forget that the Steam version doesn't get the same upgrade rights (they have done discounts just after the new version releases, but not beyond).