Maybe already asked, and maybe already answered... But has anyone seen a a morph of Dawn Wells (aka "Mary Ann" of Gilligan's Island)?

 

If not, what the heck are you all waiting for!

 

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Search for Maryann over at Rendo.  addy has a character Maryann that is almost the spitting image of Dawn Wells, circa 1965, young sweet and georgeous.  Now if I could just find a 60's era Tina Louise and a 60's era Bob Denver for a stranded raft scene.

I haven't had much luck to date with this utility, mostly because of textures and matching them. Gave it another bash this morning.

Got a big image to work with which unfortunatly was b&w so I had to colourise it a bit for a starting point. Genetared a FT face map, overlayered it with an existing map to try to match up the colouring of the torso (the hard bit).

Generated a normal map for the face. Put them all together and played a lot with the images and settings. Got an acceptable result (at last).

@L'Adair, I'm rendering my Edie/Mabel HD images with 50% of each HD morph. Maybe that is not the right way to do it. I'm still working on my renders. I got sidelined by strange appearance of the teeth when applying the HD morphs. I was not aware that morphs could change the appearance of the textures, but I have double, triple quadruple checked, and I cannot find an error in the scenes. Could it be that the HD morphs make the teeth thinner or something, making the light affect them differently?

I thought about mixing the HD, but decided against it. I also rendered each with 50% of the HD, but didn't see much difference between that and the 100% versions. Maybe SubD 4 wasn't enough.

I've never noticed an issue with teeth. I've got the Leroy/Dain scene open, so I'll take a closer look…

I did notice that rendering with 50% HD for each of Mabel and Edie actually seems to REDUCE the detail of Mabel. I think maybe the Edie 8 HD is counteracting some of the shaping of Mabel. I have looked looked to see if I am doing something wrong, and I can't see anything. This exercise has opened my eyes to strangeness I wasn't aware of before. I'm almost done with my renders. I'll post them soon.

I tested numerous combinations with Dain 8, changing SubD, adding Dain's HD, switching to Leroy's HD, and so on. I saw no difference in the teeth at all. I did notice the teeth had relatively deep ridges. So I checked the materials and found the bump was set to 2.0. That is probably fine for distant shots, keeping the surface from looking too polished. But it's a bit much for closeup.

It could be because the two I chose are fairly "normal" guys. Edie and Ollie are both more extreme shape morphs. Perhaps that's why you're seeing this issue with the teeth.

So I’ve been playing around with Blender and I bought Auto Rig Pro. It actually does a really good job of rigging a high-resolution (subdivision 1 or 2 if your feeling gutsy) obj export from Daz.

Rigging the eyes (at least on G8) is a little tricky. I ended up seperating each eye into its own object, setting the origin to center of mass (surface) and then tracking it to the appropriate eye IK bone thing. Expressions are much harder to do here, but one thing that you can do is export the ones you know you’ll want to use from Daz as separate OBJ's and then use blend-shapes to animate facial expressions.

I like this becaue Blender gives me a lot more control over animation and a lot more ability to have things like references in the viewer. I may even purchase the X Muscle System add-on and start playing around with muscle deformation and fat jiggling.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it's a neat alternative to Dforce, too. Since your character exists in the A-pose (or T-pose for earlier generations) you can basically just export clothes from Daz and then use the cloth simulation to drape them on your character. If you do your posing on frame 12 or so, you’ll get pretty nice results.

Might I ask how you're getting the cloth simulation to work a little more? This has been the only thing I can't get to work in Blender. I have a kimono on a character and I have her arm raised, but every time I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

Is that kimono a bought product or something you have made yourself?

I have seen objects falling off, or disappear into the body, but I don't recall any explossions.

 

The Kimono is actually this one: 

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kimono-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

I'm going to delve into learning how to make my own clothes here during this quarantine just to learn something new. Yeah, most times they don't fall off for me, but when I use the kimono, it's on the floor in 20 frames lol. 

 

I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

1. Make sure your character is scaled correctly, or the settings will not work reliably.
2. In all your objects, got to the Viewport Overlays in the upper right of the 3d viewport, and turn on Face Orientation. The outside of objects should be blue, not red. If you see red, your normals are flipped. But from your description, you seem to be OK.
3. In the physics tab for the kimono object, select a cloth preset to get reasonable physical values.
4. The default collision distances are way to high. Under object collisions, set the Distance to 0 and let Blender bump it up to the minimum value. Disable Self Collisions for now (but when you get the sim sorta kinda working and want to enable it, set its Distance to 0 as well).
5. Got to your character object's Physics tab, and set it as Collision. Under Softbody and Cloth, set both the Thickness Outer and Inner to zero, and let Blender set them to the minimum value. The effective distance is the sume of the cloth's distance and either the inner or outer distance of the collision object.
6. Hit the space bar to see the sim. Adjust the Collision's Quality parameter upwards if there's still penetration due to fast movements, etc. If the Kimono gets stuck in any object, try selecting Single Sided on that object's collider.
7. If it explodes, try changing the Damping parameter on the cloth object as well as the collision objects.

Good luck!

@TheMysteryIsThePoint, many, many thank you's! This looks to be exactly what I was looking for :) Also, I signed up for Quixel and have been loving the textures there, you pointed me in their direction a month ago or so, just wanted to say thank you for that tip as well! 

For modeling your own clothes, in my opinion there are only a few reasons to do it:

1. You want something really unique and can't find it anywhere so you decide to do it yourself.

2. You want to eventually become a PA so you want to learn how to do it

3. You enjoy modeling and/or making everything yourself

I don't think it is worth modeling your own clothes just to not buy them. Even for people that are very proficient and making them (the PAs that sell them), for the clothes to be worth their time, they have to sell them to a lot of people. I don't think the time creating a good item of clothing is worth it if it's just for one person.

For example and to show I speak from experience I attached a screenshot of a dress I made when I had just started out with Daz and decided I'll make almost everything myself (At that point I even wanted to make the hair). I have not really finished the dress. This is just modeled and moved to Daz. There I autofitted it with the transfer utility to G8 and that's it. It has no corrective morphs (other from the autofit ones) nor weight maps, rigging or anything. I just applied smoothing modifier on it and dForce and than used the Fit control to correct a minor pokethrough on the left hip and one on the breast area. I have also just made this dress when I modeled it purely from imagination with no design in mind.

 

I'm actually going to have to change the scale I work at in Blender - it's fine for modelling but running any cloth-sims / rigid-body sims is much easier if you're working at the right scale within Blender.

I actually never scale anything when importing into Blender. I use the huge scale that Daz has and almost always have to adjust my view to be able to see more than the original 1000m. It's a little annoying at first that you have to scale everything else in Blender to that size but I got used to it. The huge scale also helps with simulations.

Oh no, I'm not going to delve into it so I don't have to buy anything anymore, it's so worth it to just pay the 10, 15 bucks or whatever for an item here in the store. But I figure with all the extra free time right now, I should learn something I don't understand at all and maybe I'll learn something I didn't know before that could help in something else as I'm seeing so many things are tied together. 

 

I find Many advantages to modeling my own content.

Particularly if one needs more than just another tight mini-dress (As in Alex86's example),for the G8 females
I work in the MALE oriented sci fi genre.where I need future tech ,armors weapons etc as well as Sci-Fi environments.
I am also an animated film maker who not only needs purpose built content for my narratives
But will also need that content OPTIMIZED to be both animated and rendered in realtime environments( like EEVEE,Iclone) where 4K textures are not the best approach for animation.
Also the ability to support the older Genesis models with custom content is a huge advantage as the The G3/8 models present certain well documented challenges with external Character animation system such as Mixamo.
The older G1/G2 models have far less problems in this regard IMHO and based on my experience making a 93 minute feature length, animated film with Daz content&figures.
The attached image is a conforming Sci fi armor for the G2 male created in Blender 2.82
very low poly with blender procedural materials ,and converted to an Iclone realtime avatar for animation and Alembic export to Blender for EEVEE rendering
This is my advantage.

Oh! I figured out a Mixamo workaround for G8 last week! So you have to download the DAE and open that in Blender. Scale it up to however you want. Then export that as a BVH. Then bring in your Daz character and use the Diffeomorphic BVH tool and it works perfectly. I've been using Mixamo stuff all week, and you can change any part of the animation you want through the keyframes in the animation tab. This also works for G3 as one of the characters I used in a shot was Mei Lin 7, so it works for both G3/G8! 

How about a Crossgender morph transfer set?

Sickleyield and I did one for G8: https://www.daz3d.com/rssy-cross-gender-clothes-genesis-8

That's for clothes, not morphs.

Doh! You are right.  I don't think the cross-gender morphs would come out very good.  

@L'Adair, I'm rendering my Edie/Mabel HD images with 50% of each HD morph. Maybe that is not the right way to do it. I'm still working on my renders. I got sidelined by strange appearance of the teeth when applying the HD morphs. I was not aware that morphs could change the appearance of the textures, but I have double, triple quadruple checked, and I cannot find an error in the scenes. Could it be that the HD morphs make the teeth thinner or something, making the light affect them differently?

I thought about mixing the HD, but decided against it. I also rendered each with 50% of the HD, but didn't see much difference between that and the 100% versions. Maybe SubD 4 wasn't enough.

I've never noticed an issue with teeth. I've got the Leroy/Dain scene open, so I'll take a closer look…

I did notice that rendering with 50% HD for each of Mabel and Edie actually seems to REDUCE the detail of Mabel. I think maybe the Edie 8 HD is counteracting some of the shaping of Mabel. I have looked looked to see if I am doing something wrong, and I can't see anything. This exercise has opened my eyes to strangeness I wasn't aware of before. I'm almost done with my renders. I'll post them soon.

How about a Crossgender morph transfer set?

Sickleyield and I did one for G8: https://www.daz3d.com/rssy-cross-gender-clothes-genesis-8

That's for clothes, not morphs.

Sorry but I have a follow up on this. I saved a custom morph and for some inexplicable reason, well, inexplicable to me at least, if I remove or delete the one I made I'll get errors about it with entirely different characters. But if it's installed, I believe it's one of the many "duplicate formulas" that errors that I absolutely need to fix. So the question being, why is Daz referencing a file that I made that isn’t even being used in a new scene or with any random character?

@L'Adair, I'm rendering my Edie/Mabel HD images with 50% of each HD morph. Maybe that is not the right way to do it. I'm still working on my renders. I got sidelined by strange appearance of the teeth when applying the HD morphs. I was not aware that morphs could change the appearance of the textures, but I have double, triple quadruple checked, and I cannot find an error in the scenes. Could it be that the HD morphs make the teeth thinner or something, making the light affect them differently?

I thought about mixing the HD, but decided against it. I also rendered each with 50% of the HD, but didn't see much difference between that and the 100% versions. Maybe SubD 4 wasn't enough.

I've never noticed an issue with teeth. I've got the Leroy/Dain scene open, so I'll take a closer look…

@L'Adair, I'm rendering my Edie/Mabel HD images with 50% of each HD morph. Maybe that is not the right way to do it. I'm still working on my renders. I got sidelined by strange appearance of the teeth when applying the HD morphs. I was not aware that morphs could change the appearance of the textures, but I have double, triple quadruple checked, and I cannot find an error in the scenes. Could it be that the HD morphs make the teeth thinner or something, making the light affect them differently?

I would like four arms morph.  Daz used to have one for genesis but discontinued it.  Anyone make one for G8M or G8F?  Or G3 characters? 

Thanks for the reply nemisis10 but I do have that morph package and it still doesn't allow me to move the ears up or down on the side of the head or have them closer to the head or sticking out. It basically just allows me to morph the ears into fantasy shapes

it would be cool (at least for me) to add a function to save a set of morphs as a single morph

Basically it is a product for people who dial spin and mix morphs and this product gives you the power to easily list the used morphs in many ways, eg via alphabetical and dial strength or product etc. You can also instantly jump to a used morphs location with one click and it will show and highlight exactly where it is located on figure in studio parameters tab.

In a nutshell you can see all morphs used on your figure/character, shaping or pose, and choose to list only ones from specific body parts and they will populate, and you can arrange them to display the way you want.  If a morph isn't present on a specific area the script will dynamically not list its group. I find it extremely useful when I want to see what all the figure uses and from where the morphs comes from. It also has it's own search function.

Here is a promo, not finalized.

Well, I think this is, what we all expected from Daz Studio... from the ground!! Great feature!

When you own many morph packs, this product should help you isolate duplicates and the ones you don't use any more, so you can remove them (and reduce load times). 

Hello,

I have been playing around with the Winter Fae character and I wanted to bend her ears back towards her head but I can't seem to find a G8 ear morph that does that. I know that the old V4 had numerous ear morphs that allowed you to raise the ears, bend them back so that they didn't stick out so much etc. but I can't find similar morphs for G8. I do have the G8F head morphs package and the 200 head morph package as well but still no luck.

Am I totally missing something or do these morphs not exist? And if not, are there any morph packages that have these kind of ear morphs?

Thanks for any help.

nabob21

So I’ve been playing around with Blender and I bought Auto Rig Pro. It actually does a really good job of rigging a high-resolution (subdivision 1 or 2 if your feeling gutsy) obj export from Daz.

Rigging the eyes (at least on G8) is a little tricky. I ended up seperating each eye into its own object, setting the origin to center of mass (surface) and then tracking it to the appropriate eye IK bone thing. Expressions are much harder to do here, but one thing that you can do is export the ones you know you’ll want to use from Daz as separate OBJ's and then use blend-shapes to animate facial expressions.

I like this becaue Blender gives me a lot more control over animation and a lot more ability to have things like references in the viewer. I may even purchase the X Muscle System add-on and start playing around with muscle deformation and fat jiggling.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it's a neat alternative to Dforce, too. Since your character exists in the A-pose (or T-pose for earlier generations) you can basically just export clothes from Daz and then use the cloth simulation to drape them on your character. If you do your posing on frame 12 or so, you’ll get pretty nice results.

Might I ask how you're getting the cloth simulation to work a little more? This has been the only thing I can't get to work in Blender. I have a kimono on a character and I have her arm raised, but every time I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

Is that kimono a bought product or something you have made yourself?

I have seen objects falling off, or disappear into the body, but I don't recall any explossions.

 

The Kimono is actually this one: 

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kimono-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

I'm going to delve into learning how to make my own clothes here during this quarantine just to learn something new. Yeah, most times they don't fall off for me, but when I use the kimono, it's on the floor in 20 frames lol. 

 

I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

1. Make sure your character is scaled correctly, or the settings will not work reliably.
2. In all your objects, got to the Viewport Overlays in the upper right of the 3d viewport, and turn on Face Orientation. The outside of objects should be blue, not red. If you see red, your normals are flipped. But from your description, you seem to be OK.
3. In the physics tab for the kimono object, select a cloth preset to get reasonable physical values.
4. The default collision distances are way to high. Under object collisions, set the Distance to 0 and let Blender bump it up to the minimum value. Disable Self Collisions for now (but when you get the sim sorta kinda working and want to enable it, set its Distance to 0 as well).
5. Got to your character object's Physics tab, and set it as Collision. Under Softbody and Cloth, set both the Thickness Outer and Inner to zero, and let Blender set them to the minimum value. The effective distance is the sume of the cloth's distance and either the inner or outer distance of the collision object.
6. Hit the space bar to see the sim. Adjust the Collision's Quality parameter upwards if there's still penetration due to fast movements, etc. If the Kimono gets stuck in any object, try selecting Single Sided on that object's collider.
7. If it explodes, try changing the Damping parameter on the cloth object as well as the collision objects.

Good luck!

@TheMysteryIsThePoint, many, many thank you's! This looks to be exactly what I was looking for :) Also, I signed up for Quixel and have been loving the textures there, you pointed me in their direction a month ago or so, just wanted to say thank you for that tip as well! 

For modeling your own clothes, in my opinion there are only a few reasons to do it:

1. You want something really unique and can't find it anywhere so you decide to do it yourself.

2. You want to eventually become a PA so you want to learn how to do it

3. You enjoy modeling and/or making everything yourself

I don't think it is worth modeling your own clothes just to not buy them. Even for people that are very proficient and making them (the PAs that sell them), for the clothes to be worth their time, they have to sell them to a lot of people. I don't think the time creating a good item of clothing is worth it if it's just for one person.

For example and to show I speak from experience I attached a screenshot of a dress I made when I had just started out with Daz and decided I'll make almost everything myself (At that point I even wanted to make the hair). I have not really finished the dress. This is just modeled and moved to Daz. There I autofitted it with the transfer utility to G8 and that's it. It has no corrective morphs (other from the autofit ones) nor weight maps, rigging or anything. I just applied smoothing modifier on it and dForce and than used the Fit control to correct a minor pokethrough on the left hip and one on the breast area. I have also just made this dress when I modeled it purely from imagination with no design in mind.

 

I'm actually going to have to change the scale I work at in Blender - it's fine for modelling but running any cloth-sims / rigid-body sims is much easier if you're working at the right scale within Blender.

I actually never scale anything when importing into Blender. I use the huge scale that Daz has and almost always have to adjust my view to be able to see more than the original 1000m. It's a little annoying at first that you have to scale everything else in Blender to that size but I got used to it. The huge scale also helps with simulations.

Oh no, I'm not going to delve into it so I don't have to buy anything anymore, it's so worth it to just pay the 10, 15 bucks or whatever for an item here in the store. But I figure with all the extra free time right now, I should learn something I don't understand at all and maybe I'll learn something I didn't know before that could help in something else as I'm seeing so many things are tied together. 

 

I find Many advantages to modeling my own content.

Particularly if one needs more than just another tight mini-dress (As in Alex86's example),for the G8 females
I work in the MALE oriented sci fi genre.where I need future tech ,armors weapons etc as well as Sci-Fi environments.
I am also an animated film maker who not only needs purpose built content for my narratives
But will also need that content OPTIMIZED to be both animated and rendered in realtime environments( like EEVEE,Iclone) where 4K textures are not the best approach for animation.
Also the ability to support the older Genesis models with custom content is a huge advantage as the The G3/8 models present certain well documented challenges with external Character animation system such as Mixamo.
The older G1/G2 models have far less problems in this regard IMHO and based on my experience making a 93 minute feature length, animated film with Daz content&figures.
The attached image is a conforming Sci fi armor for the G2 male created in Blender 2.82
very low poly with blender procedural materials ,and converted to an Iclone realtime avatar for animation and Alembic export to Blender for EEVEE rendering
This is my advantage.

Oh! I figured out a Mixamo workaround for G8 last week! So you have to download the DAE and open that in Blender. Scale it up to however you want. Then export that as a BVH. Then bring in your Daz character and use the Diffeomorphic BVH tool and it works perfectly. I've been using Mixamo stuff all week, and you can change any part of the animation you want through the keyframes in the animation tab. This also works for G3 as one of the characters I used in a shot was Mei Lin 7, so it works for both G3/G8! 

The original has the deformer attached to the head, but after conversion to weight-mapped, Studio will only allow the D-Former to be applied to the top-level figure, not any of the bones, i.e., the head. Adding a new D-Former to the figure and copying the exact parameter settings from the original D-Former (translation and scaling) gives the desired morph when dialing in the top-level D-Forms parameter setting.

Yes, that's one of the big differences between Poser and D|S figures when it comes to D-Formers — the D-Form effects are applied to the figure as if it's in its default pose, with all pose parameters zeroed. When you pose a bit of the figure, the D-Form parts don't move relative to the figure root, but the coloured "effect" dots will follow the posed body part.

And yes, it can be a major headache; it took me a while to wrap my tired little brain around the idea, but I think I've got it now... after several years trying...  

I create my own content with Blender from Genesis 8 base and I import my morphs and my characters back to DAZ.  The auto adaptation of the rig is very useful but very inaccurate sometime.  Auto orientation of the rig is very very very dangerous so better to avoid it exept for really, but really, bad behaviours of the rig (better never).  The eyelids problem is very common with particular morphs so I adopt always the simple, but annoying, manual solution correcting the Outer, Mid and Inner Eyelid rig.  I did this to Genesis 8 Female base but at the end I prefered to uninstall and reinstall everything.  After all this takes only few hours.

After the complete reinstallation of the library the problem disappeared. I deduce that the my morphs installed in the data folder (personal content is always in a different Library) were not the problem. Maybe I saved wrongly a morph ERC Preset in the previous version overwriting the rig of the G8F but I still don't know how I could do this (I am still trying to find out what is the exact mistake).  The advanced use of this fragile software can cause big problems sometime.

Same thing happens with FaceGen morphs for some eye posers. The product Shape Rigger Plus by Zev0 might help some.

So I’ve been playing around with Blender and I bought Auto Rig Pro. It actually does a really good job of rigging a high-resolution (subdivision 1 or 2 if your feeling gutsy) obj export from Daz.

Rigging the eyes (at least on G8) is a little tricky. I ended up seperating each eye into its own object, setting the origin to center of mass (surface) and then tracking it to the appropriate eye IK bone thing. Expressions are much harder to do here, but one thing that you can do is export the ones you know you’ll want to use from Daz as separate OBJ's and then use blend-shapes to animate facial expressions.

I like this becaue Blender gives me a lot more control over animation and a lot more ability to have things like references in the viewer. I may even purchase the X Muscle System add-on and start playing around with muscle deformation and fat jiggling.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it's a neat alternative to Dforce, too. Since your character exists in the A-pose (or T-pose for earlier generations) you can basically just export clothes from Daz and then use the cloth simulation to drape them on your character. If you do your posing on frame 12 or so, you’ll get pretty nice results.

Might I ask how you're getting the cloth simulation to work a little more? This has been the only thing I can't get to work in Blender. I have a kimono on a character and I have her arm raised, but every time I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

Is that kimono a bought product or something you have made yourself?

I have seen objects falling off, or disappear into the body, but I don't recall any explossions.

 

The Kimono is actually this one: 

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kimono-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

I'm going to delve into learning how to make my own clothes here during this quarantine just to learn something new. Yeah, most times they don't fall off for me, but when I use the kimono, it's on the floor in 20 frames lol. 

 

I try the cloth sim, it either explodes or falls off. I've figured out the pinning thing to keep it from falling off, but now it just inflates or fully explodes and I don't know what's going on. I know without seeing my settings it's hard to guesstimate what's going on with me, but what's your process for getting it to work if you don't mind me asking? 

1. Make sure your character is scaled correctly, or the settings will not work reliably.
2. In all your objects, got to the Viewport Overlays in the upper right of the 3d viewport, and turn on Face Orientation. The outside of objects should be blue, not red. If you see red, your normals are flipped. But from your description, you seem to be OK.
3. In the physics tab for the kimono object, select a cloth preset to get reasonable physical values.
4. The default collision distances are way to high. Under object collisions, set the Distance to 0 and let Blender bump it up to the minimum value. Disable Self Collisions for now (but when you get the sim sorta kinda working and want to enable it, set its Distance to 0 as well).
5. Got to your character object's Physics tab, and set it as Collision. Under Softbody and Cloth, set both the Thickness Outer and Inner to zero, and let Blender set them to the minimum value. The effective distance is the sume of the cloth's distance and either the inner or outer distance of the collision object.
6. Hit the space bar to see the sim. Adjust the Collision's Quality parameter upwards if there's still penetration due to fast movements, etc. If the Kimono gets stuck in any object, try selecting Single Sided on that object's collider.
7. If it explodes, try changing the Damping parameter on the cloth object as well as the collision objects.

Good luck!

@TheMysteryIsThePoint, many, many thank you's! This looks to be exactly what I was looking for :) Also, I signed up for Quixel and have been loving the textures there, you pointed me in their direction a month ago or so, just wanted to say thank you for that tip as well! 

For modeling your own clothes, in my opinion there are only a few reasons to do it:

1. You want something really unique and can't find it anywhere so you decide to do it yourself.

2. You want to eventually become a PA so you want to learn how to do it

3. You enjoy modeling and/or making everything yourself

I don't think it is worth modeling your own clothes just to not buy them. Even for people that are very proficient and making them (the PAs that sell them), for the clothes to be worth their time, they have to sell them to a lot of people. I don't think the time creating a good item of clothing is worth it if it's just for one person.

For example and to show I speak from experience I attached a screenshot of a dress I made when I had just started out with Daz and decided I'll make almost everything myself (At that point I even wanted to make the hair). I have not really finished the dress. This is just modeled and moved to Daz. There I autofitted it with the transfer utility to G8 and that's it. It has no corrective morphs (other from the autofit ones) nor weight maps, rigging or anything. I just applied smoothing modifier on it and dForce and than used the Fit control to correct a minor pokethrough on the left hip and one on the breast area. I have also just made this dress when I modeled it purely from imagination with no design in mind.

 

I'm actually going to have to change the scale I work at in Blender - it's fine for modelling but running any cloth-sims / rigid-body sims is much easier if you're working at the right scale within Blender.

I actually never scale anything when importing into Blender. I use the huge scale that Daz has and almost always have to adjust my view to be able to see more than the original 1000m. It's a little annoying at first that you have to scale everything else in Blender to that size but I got used to it. The huge scale also helps with simulations.

Oh no, I'm not going to delve into it so I don't have to buy anything anymore, it's so worth it to just pay the 10, 15 bucks or whatever for an item here in the store. But I figure with all the extra free time right now, I should learn something I don't understand at all and maybe I'll learn something I didn't know before that could help in something else as I'm seeing so many things are tied together. 

 

I find Many advantages to modeling my own content.

Particularly if one needs more than just another tight mini-dress (As in Alex86's example),for the G8 females
I work in the MALE oriented sci fi genre.where I need future tech ,armors weapons etc as well as Sci-Fi environments.

Plus, modeling skills also give you the ability to fix numerous less than perfect things in store products. That tight minidress, more than likely isn't going to fit more than a few shapes perfectly, or have all the morphs you need. Fit control and stuff is great for small things, but it's never going to be remotely close to custom morphs. 

Even female orientated stuff (which I do a similar genre in) is usually aimed at rather specific things repeated a few times. Also, if you're stuck with store products, it's not going to be particularily unique. I couldn't really imagine not being able to make stuff myself, or how limiting it would be.