I´m really falling in love with iclone, but...there is always a but.

The tutorials are few, and many of them seem outdated (for iclone 2.5). Also the ones on clone cloth are good if you know how to work well with photoshop (i can do simple things, but that´s it). I would really like a tutorial about how can i take a photo from a shirt or some trousers and applied it well to a clone cloth. Can someone do it? I would really love to know hot to do it...i ´m even willing to pay for it if that´s what it takes.

Ok, now some critical opinion on Reallusion and the tutorials:

I can´t understand why a software so good as this one do not have the same quality on the tutorial support. Just go on you tube and you´ll see that the better tutorials on this are for iclone 2.5 or older. It seems Reallusion feels their customers stoped there and they don´t need to teach anyone else.

Well...ok, i´m not talking about the excelent tutorials from ICLONE CERTIFIED TRAINING (By the way, anyone know why it stoped working last May?...such a good training site should never end)

Please understand Reallusion that if you don´t make new users happy and learning well...you´ll eventually stop having people buying or upgrade. Yes, yes, i know that people learn by experimenting and that´s all good, but that can´t be an excuse for not developing good tutorials. If you build a great tool like iclone or crazy talk and people buy it, they desearve more support on learning. All the great software tools have nice manuals and tutorials...iclone has a not so good manual and only a few nice tutorials (and others that seem only a video promotion packaged as a tutorial) and thats it. And it´s not just me saying it, i see many, many topics in here saying exactly the same.

Not all is bad in this field of course, because there are always helpfull people in the foruns, and threads like the AnimaTechnica (aknzrdude)'s Production Diary   (and others) are fantastic, showing that there are still people willing to share and happy to help others. But shouldn´t be Reallusion the first one to help their customers? I hope they eventually understand that they must.

With this in mind you can find countless tutorials on designing clothing textures for programs such as Second Life, Poser etc and these will all help you just as well with creating for CloneCloth.

You also mention you only know the basics of Photoshop. This is another area where there are 1000's of tutorials on the net for Photoshop, so I would do some of these to get a better understanding of the processes involved. Look especially for tutorials on using layers and opacitiy maps which are vital for creating CloneCloth textures. It won't take long to get basics understood if you practise as much as possible.

Thanks for taking the time to share your views. Your points will be reviewed by the team.  

 

Peter Edwards
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