You can also try adding a solid black image to the "Opacity" channel of the upper and lower Skin texture. The process will work the same as explained HERE for G5 CloneCloth.

Sounds like a graphical glitch. Try updating your graphics drivers to see if this helps. Also try switching to "Quick Shader" to see if the problem goes away. That will prove it is a graphics issue.

This is not a graphical card issue, this is because the inner Cloth Layer is too close to the outer Cloth layer and when you zoom out, you loose resolution and the renderer sees both layers on the same plane.

if Alley cannot reproduce this, then it may be that your preferences settings are different than hers.

1) Make sure your iClone preference settings allow for maximum texture resolution (8192 x 8192) in the viewport.

2) Load character 

3) Move camera away from character

If the problem persist, then the Cloth needs to be fixed.

Hope this helps... :)

Now, set the camera to 20 mm and zoom out, there is no issue.  So, it is possible for you to reset the camera?  I don't think that anybody's cloth needs fixing, I think it's an issue with iClone and the camera setting.

And the reason you don't see it with Chuck Default, is because he is a single layer cloth with no skin underneath.  The rest have skin.  Also, changing your resolution setting has no effect on this.

Honestly, My point was to avoid sending the end user on the wrong track... Alley, you do not need to turn this into a fight. :)

So we all agree it is not a graphics card issue !!! :D

Cheers! 

2) Then as you add your props, at which point does the problem start appearing?

3) The other thing that comes to mind is if you have applied a motion that is not very clean to eddy. It could cause the skin or torax to pierce through...

4) Or ... Do you have some transparent object (like a glass) between Eddy and the Camera? iClone will only handle one level of transparency properly between the camra and the target object.

But if you say that turning opacity off for the skin does not fix the issue then do this:

1) Make sure that there are no more layers between the Jacket and the skin, you may be turning opacity off for the skin layer but there is a Shirt Layer between the skin and the jacket (I suspect there is and this is the layer that is causing the issue). Simply turn opacity off for this shirt layer and the problem should disappear... Which means that layer is too close to the Jacket which is the Cloth issue I was referring to. But the good news is you can fix it with an opacity map applied to the shirt layer :)

Normally You should have access to that additional shirt layer from the modify material pull down menu when the avatar and UPPER TAB is selected but I did not design the Cloth so I am not sure ...:)

Hope this helps.

and here is one that shows the camera setting at 20mm

Could you post a screen shot of eddie with the camera at the same setting to show the issue still exists?  I don't see how the suggestion of fixing the cloth makes sense because it would mean that every cloth developer had issues to fix.  I think that when you have double layer cloth with skin underneath it, it causes this issue with the camera, regardless of whose cloth it is.  The only way to avoid it is to have a simplified character like chuck default who has no skin under his clothes.

I am sure there are more technical people here who can explain the reason this happens but the only way to avoid it is to have simple single layer cloth with no skin.  I think it's great that we have so many different cloth systems that allow such great designs that it just is a matter of working around this with camera shots.

Here is another shot of random characters - one is G2, another BB character - the problem exists with all of them - it can be eliminated by setting the camera back to 20mm and then zooming to where you need your shot.

1) Lets say shirt layer distance to Jacket is 1mm and Camera distance is 1 meters, then to the camera lens, the distance between the shirt and the jacket is 1/1000 of the total distance.  

2) Now put the camera at 100 meters away from the avatar (or change the Camera lens to wide angle which changes the focal distance and cause the same effect), the shirt distance to the Jacket is now 1/100000 = 0.00001 of the total distance which with rounding and optimization after calculations may cause the Camera to see shirt and jacket on the same plane.

That's the issue I see with the posted images which should be easily fixed by using an Opacity map on the shirt layer as long as the Cloth makes the Shirt layer available to the end user !!! :cool:

Alley is really good at texturing so I am sure she can provide an opacity map fix for you :)

I could fix the Cloth for you but unfortunately, because of the watermarks, I wont be able to export the character in 3dXchange. :)

Cheers!

We can hope.

Just add some music.  :)   Very psychedelic.  :w00t:

Of course we use actors in our scenes, and unless you use lenses with an extreme focal length, there is nothing out the ordinary to report. I have never felt the need for more than 80mm, which works fine.

It is a limitation of CloneCloth as BigBoss has explained; you will encounter the same in iClone 4. Again, it is not problem in 99.999% of the cases and no reason to gloat or feel clever. I bet it wasn't a problem for you either.

Actually you should be able to get up to 400mm without the effect occurring as long as you don't use Zoom (Z) to zoom out. If you only zoom in the effect doesn't occur or is very minimal.

Thanks again.

Can you not use a slightly longer lens like 80 - 100mm and then just use Zoom (Z) to frame everything accordingly, or are you looking for a specific effect that you can only get with the high lens value?