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Merging props into an outfit?

SnowSultanSnowSultan Posts: 3,802
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I downloaded some free buttons and parented them to several parts of the dForce Peasant Dress as shown below. They look fine until the dress moves, then all hell breaks loose.  :)  Although they're parented, some get swallowed by the clothing deformations and others end up floating above the surface. I'm familar with this of course, and usually I just make adjustments before rendering if it's one or two items, but I'd rather not have to adjust ten buttons individually every time I render this thing.

I'm pretty sure this problem can be solved with the geometry editor tool, but I'm only familiar with that for making new surfaces. If anyone could either walk me through the procedure or be willing to do it if they have this outfit and if it would be easier to actually do than explain it to me (I can send or post a scene file), I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,795
    SnowSultan said:

    I downloaded some free buttons and parented them to several parts of the dForce Peasant Dress as shown below. They look fine until the dress moves, then all hell breaks loose.  :)  Although they're parented, some get swallowed by the clothing deformations and others end up floating above the surface. I'm familar with this of course, and usually I just make adjustments before rendering if it's one or two items, but I'd rather not have to adjust ten buttons individually every time I render this thing.

    I'm pretty sure this problem can be solved with the geometry editor tool, but I'm only familiar with that for making new surfaces. If anyone could either walk me through the procedure or be willing to do it if they have this outfit and if it would be easier to actually do than explain it to me (I can send or post a scene file), I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any help.

    I think Mada, the DAZ 3D PA, said you use something called "node followers". If you have the G3M Tuxedo on the upper arms and elsewhere are buttons attached using node followers (I think that's the product she was talking about) as an example of that.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,313

    There's a tutorial here:

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,038

    Rigid Follow Node

  • SnowSultanSnowSultan Posts: 3,802

    Thanks, that tutorial and some help from Lyrra was what I needed.   :)   Never had a reason to use Rigid Follow Nodes before so I didn't even know where to find them at first.

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