Is it possible....

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• Herald of Fire Posts: 3,504

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  So-called dynamic cloth works in Poser because it has the cloth room for draping. Unfortunately there's no such function in Daz Studio, so it wouldn't convert at all. The only dynamic clothing available in Daz Studio is created by Optifex via their own plugin. They have some free downloadable dynamic clothes on their site as well as paid for ones, but without their paid-for plugin, you'll have no real control over how the drape functions beyond very simple manipulations.

  It's one of the reasons I still have Poser. I usually run the drape in Poser and export it as an OBJ file for re-importing to Daz Studio. Not ideal, perhaps, but it works well enough for my purposes.

  As far as I'm aware there is no way for the end user to create their own dynamic clothing, even with the Optitex plugin.

  Post edited by Herald of Fire on March 2013
• aprilsunshine7_4526d47d74 Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  What version of poser do you have?

  If needed, I would buy the plugin from Optifex. It sounds like what you're saying is that there is no way to convert the poser dynamic cloth to Optitex dynamic cloth. Is that right?

  If I draped the piece of cloth in poser, then exported it into Studio as an obj., would it act as a conforming piece of clothing would? This is the part I'm a bit fuzzy on.
• Jaderail Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  No, it would be a single POSE object only. Your figure would need to be in the Drape pose so it matched the Poser Drape.
  
  The Full Dynamic plugin for DS only works for the Draping of Opti meshes. The engine is not avaliable to us DS users.
• Medzin Posts: 337

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  sikeus said:

  If I draped the piece of cloth in poser, then exported it into Studio as an obj., would it act as a conforming piece of clothing would? This is the part I'm a bit fuzzy on.

  I use that method quite often.
  The exported OBJ is a static prop. The Figure in DS has to have the same pose and shape as the one that was used in Poser. If you making any changes, the process has to be repeated.
• aprilsunshine7_4526d47d74 Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  Jaderail said:

  No, it would be a single POSE object only. Your figure would need to be in the Drape pose so it matched the Poser Drape.
  
  The Full Dynamic plugin for DS only works for the Draping of Opti meshes. The engine is not avaliable to us DS users.

  When you say the engine isn't available, does that mean the plugin, or the process of making the dynamic cloth?

  Thanks.
• aprilsunshine7_4526d47d74 Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  Medzin said:

  sikeus said:

  If I draped the piece of cloth in poser, then exported it into Studio as an obj., would it act as a conforming piece of clothing would? This is the part I'm a bit fuzzy on.

  I use that method quite often.
  The exported OBJ is a static prop. The Figure in DS has to have the same pose and shape as the one that was used in Poser. If you making any changes, the process has to be repeated.

  This is good to know. I use Genesis exclusively, so it may be a bit of work to go through the process. But if it drapes and fold once I've converted the conforming piece of clothing to dynamic, it could be worth it.

  Do I need Poser 2012 for it, or will Poser 9 work just as well? I have Poser Debut, but I'm guessing it doesn't have the cloth room.

  Thanks everyone for your help!
• Jaderail Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  sikeus said:

  Jaderail said:

  No, it would be a single POSE object only. Your figure would need to be in the Drape pose so it matched the Poser Drape.
  
  The Full Dynamic plugin for DS only works for the Draping of Opti meshes. The engine is not avaliable to us DS users.

  When you say the engine isn't available, does that mean the plugin, or the process of making the dynamic cloth?

  Thanks.The Process of making them. Let me re-state that, it is available but costs $12,000 plus US to get it.
  
  The Full Dynamic Plugin is in the Daz3D store.

  Post edited by Jaderail on March 2013
• aprilsunshine7_4526d47d74 Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  Jaderail said:

  sikeus said:

  Jaderail said:

  No, it would be a single POSE object only. Your figure would need to be in the Drape pose so it matched the Poser Drape.
  
  The Full Dynamic plugin for DS only works for the Draping of Opti meshes. The engine is not avaliable to us DS users.

  When you say the engine isn't available, does that mean the plugin, or the process of making the dynamic cloth?

  Thanks.

  The Process of making them. Let me re-state that, it is available but costs $12,000 plus US to get it.
  
  The Full Dynamic Plugin is in the Daz3D store.

  My eyes bugged out when I saw the price. Wow!
• Jaderail Posts: 0

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  It is owned my the Optitex company. We get our Dynamic items for DS from a employee for them who is allowed to sale the Items to Daz3D to support the Dynamic Plugin they sell here at Daz3D.
• SpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  sikeus said:

  Jaderail said:

  Let me re-state that, it is available but costs $12,000 plus US to get it.

  
  My eyes bugged out when I saw the price. Wow!
  Remember, that program is used by real clothes companies to make real clothes you can buy in a shop and put onto your actual body. That sort of price is not unusual.

  Makes it a bit more difficult to shrink the figure down a few percent for a better-fitting starting drape, though... ;-)
• aprilsunshine7_4526d47d74 Posts: 0

  April 2013 edited December 1969

  Thanks all for the replies. I am now a proud owner of Poser 9. (I have to admit Poser 2012 was tempting - running it as a 64-bit program would probably help with DSON, but I couldn't justify the extra money after all I spent on March Madness. :) )