Marvelous designer clothes with smoothing modifier

scyhoce

Hello, when I create garmets in MD and load them to Daz as an obj, they get really distorted and start to tear apart when I add a smoothing modifier to them. 

nicstt

Don't you have to weld something? Don't use Marvelous Designer, but remember looking at it, and not sure if I remember that or not.

snarkfu

As nicstt said you need to weld in your export settings though you may still have the same problem.

MD doesn't merge verts over seams which can cause issues when you apply a smoothing modifier or a subdivision, only solution I've found is to take it into blender (or your modelling program of cohice) and either merge the verts or mark the effected edges as sharp.
Marking as sharp can cause shading issues but merging the verts means you can't use the original file to create morphs in MD so pick which effects you least essentially.

It might be possible to reimport a fixed garment and re-simulate it in MD but I'm not sure.

scyhoce

snarkfu said:

As nicstt said you need to weld in your export settings though you may still have the same problem.

MD doesn't merge verts over seams which can cause issues when you apply a smoothing modifier or a subdivision, only solution I've found is to take it into blender (or your modelling program of cohice) and either merge the verts or mark the effected edges as sharp.
Marking as sharp can cause shading issues but merging the verts means you can't use the original file to create morphs in MD so pick which effects you least essentially.

It might be possible to reimport a fixed garment and re-simulate it in MD but I'm not sure.

Yea it seems that way. I found most artists use zbrush for this kind of thing, as it gives out best results, especially when dealing with morphs. thanks

owmastersboosting

export as welded / thin, exclude any stitches. Avoid thick like the plague xD should work fine then but you wont have any visible seams.