I am playing with the trial version and want to know if I will be able to animate Victoria once I have her in DAZ as I have seen in the  demo´s???  If so--how, since I  an unsure of how the draping will work...?

No. the cloth doesn´t move in Daz. You have a few options depending on what you want. if you just want still images, you can pose her in Daz and bring those poses into Marvelous Designer. this way the cloth will be shaped to that pose when you export it back. They are going to eventually make a Daz plugin that does dynamic cloth.

The other option is to animate her in Daz and export the animation to Marvelous Designer. Then you can record the cloth dynamics into a motion file.

The animation player beta has just been released.

Tom

You won´t be billed $99 for using the trial version, it will simply stop working when the trial period runs out.

The purpose of the free trial is to allow you to try it for a while to be sure it fits your needs before you buy it. If you have purchased it without trying it first I would imagine you´re out of luck.

hummm do u know when the plug in will be created--and will I then be able to animate?

I believe they were told by Daz that it would be best to wait till the next version of Daz comes out for programming reasons.

the reason you can´t have animated cloth now, is that the cloth dynamics are proprietary to the Optitex format in Daz. 

That´s why they need to make their own plugin.

tom

meshman Wrote:

You won´t be billed $99 for using the trial version, it will simply stop working when the trial period runs out.

The purpose of the free trial is to allow you to try it for a while to be sure it fits your needs before you buy it. If you have purchased it without trying it first I would imagine you´re out of luck.

thkaufm Wrote:

hummm do u know when the plug in will be created--and will I then be able to animate?

I believe they were told by Daz that it would be best to wait till the next version of Daz comes out for programming reasons.

the reason you can´t have animated cloth now, is that the cloth dynamics are proprietary to the Optitex format in Daz. 

That´s why they need to make their own plugin.

tom

amakyn Wrote:

Making Cloth for Victoria 4

This tutorial deals with the overall process from cloth draping in Marvelous Designer to the final rendering in DAZ Studio. You can learn the following topics.

- File import/export for DAZ Studio

- Draping

- Pose change

- Texture setting

All these works can be done within an hour using Marvelous Designer. Enjoy it.

 

 

* This tutorial is based on DAZ Studio 3.1 for windows

I.     Exporting V4 as OBJ

There are two poses required; one is for initial draping and another is for the final draping. For the initial draping, T-posed V4 is preferred in general as it can make draping easy.

1.    Load V4 taking T-pose at DAZ Studio.

  

 

2.    Click “File> Export”.

  

 

3.    And select “Wavefront Object (*.obj)” in Save as type.

    

 

4.    Change the value of scale to “1000%” in OBJ Export Option as DAZ’s default unit is centimeter(cm) and Marvelous Designer’s is millimeter(mm).

 

 

5.    Export V4 of another pose as an OBJ in the same way.

  

 

 

II.    Importing V4 to Marvelous Designer

1.    Click File> Import> OBJ.

  

 

2.    Open the “V4 taking T-pose” to use it as an avatar.

  

3.    And click “OK” to import. (If you exported V4 as 100% scale from Daz Studio, the value of Scale should be 10 in the Import OBJ Dialog of Marvelous Designer.)

  

  

 

 

III.   Making Cloth on V4

1.    Make patterns and set seams on Pattern Window.

  

 

2.    Click the  button to synchronize the patterns with Cloth Window.

    

 

3.    Click the “open” button in the Arrangement BV of Object Brower Pane to load the arrangement bounding volumes for V4.

    

 

4.    And click the “open” button in the Arrangement Point Tap to load the arrangement points for V4.

  

 

* Download Arrangement BV, Point (.zip)

 

5.    Then you can place the pattern around her by using arrangement points which are displayed when you click the  button in Cloth Window. To place each pattern, just click the arrangement point after selecting the pattern.

   

 

6.    After arranging patterns, click the  button to sew it up.

  

 

IV. Changing Pose of V4

1.    Click “File> Import> OBJ” to load the V4 taking another pose as a morph target.

  

 

2.    Check “Load as Morph Target and Animate” and click the “OK”. The “Morphing Frame Count” denotes the number of frames of the morphing animation from the current pose to the target pose.

  

 

V.   Increasing Detail

1.    Select all patterns and enter a “5” in Particle Distance of Property Editor Pane.

  

 

2.    Click the  button to synchronize the change.

  

 

 

VI.  Setting Texture

1.    Open a folder with textures in Windows Explorer. Drag an image from the folder onto a 3D cloth or a 2D pattern.

  

 

 

VII.         Rendering Cloth in DAZ Studio.

1.    Click “File> Export> OBJ”

  

 

2.    Check the “Welding” to weld seams of patterns. And check on “Cloth_Shape” only.

  

 

3.    Click “File> Import” in DAZ Studio

  

 

4.    Change the value of scale to “10” in OBJ Import Options.

  

  

 

 

VIII.         Render the cloth.

hello, i´ve been trying everything in this tutorial but i got some problems when importing .obj in daz, i can import them. but it appears just  cloth with no victoria and no textures applied, i did point by point in the tutorial but still have the same problem. dont know why happen this. i´d be glad if u can help me. thanks

you really didn´t have to quote the entire tutorial just to ask a question.

you also only need to click submit once.

When exporting you have to check off the items you want to export.

When creating cloth, you don´t need to export the avatar. only the cloth. you should already have the avatar in daz, since that´s where it came from.

Tom

thkaufm Wrote:

hello, i´ve been trying everything in this tutorial but i got some problems when importing .obj in daz, i can import them. but it appears just  cloth with no victoria and no textures applied, i did point by point in the tutorial but still have the same problem. dont know why happen this. i´d be glad if u can help me. thanks

you really didn´t have to quote the entire tutorial just to ask a question.

you also only need to click submit once.

When exporting you have to check off the items you want to export.

When creating cloth, you don´t need to export the avatar. only the cloth. you should already have the avatar in daz, since that´s where it came from.

Tom

but i don´t get how to check off the items i want to export.  what i´m doing is to export the entire cloth in .obj as tutorial says. but when importing this in daz it just appears inwhite.

You must have unchecked the other items since you only got the cloth. That´s actually what the tutorial shows.

I don´t know what the problem is with daz. I don´t use it for rendering. it comes out white for me too.

The textures show up in other programs though.

Tom