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  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,603

     

    I've got five days left on my trial. I've been trying to convert a few obj's to garments, but they keep exploding or dissolving on simulation. I'm going to miss using Marvelous Designer. It's such a wonderful program.

     

  • tikiman-3dtikiman-3d Posts: 42
    edited August 2018

    Has anyone using MD 7.5 been able to dforce-ify a garment with topstitch added? I've tried:

    1) Importing the garment without topstitch added and it works great with dforce in a little over 30 seconds to simulate.  

    2) Importing with topstich and it runs the "Springs" menu forever then immediately explodes whe trying to simulate.  SO I tried....

    3) Exporting the Garment from MD with the Topstich as a separate .OBJ Imported both to DAZ. Decimated the topstitch down to 7%. Exported both to a single OBJ then re- imported.
        dforce runs the "Springs" in half the time, but still explodes.

    I have tried to tweak the settings too but to no avail.

    crying  
         

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    It would be nice if something like topstitch was instead relegated to a material zone and a displacement, normal, or bump map, something along those lines, used instead. The stitch being located there in a seperate material zone would also allow a different set of paramers to be used for dForce since the stitching would stiffen the fabric along the stitch.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,063
    Tikiman-3d said:

    Has anyone using MD 7.5 been able to dforce-ify a garment with topstitch added? I've tried:

    1) Importing the garment without topstitch added and it works great with dforce in a little over 30 seconds to simulate.  

    2) Importing with topstich and it runs the "Springs" menu forever then immediately explodes whe trying to simulate.  SO I tried....

    3) Exporting the Garment from MD with the Topstich as a separate .OBJ Imported both to DAZ. Decimated the topstitch down to 7%. Exported both to a single OBJ then re- imported.
        dforce runs the "Springs" in half the time, but still explodes.

    I have tried to tweak the settings too but to no avail.

    crying  
         

    I guess the springs messags are telling you that the spring length is less than the offset value - not entirely surprisingly if you are trying to model stitching. You could try lowering the offset in the surface settings for the item, though that may cause poke-through or other issues. You could also/instead try adding more iterations in Simulation Settings to give the "energy" a chance to get away from the very tight stitch mesh.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    Just to update this thread as I started it at a time when MD7 was the latest version: I finally scraped the means together, helped by a significant discount at the moment, and bought MD8 today. Rather belatedly (almost a year since I had the trial version) I can't wait to get started on some projects.

    By the way, thanks for all the informative input to this thread - much appreciated by all, I'm sure.

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