Cloth Creation tutorial by Apparition

To work this tutorial you need to downlad the two next files. To download click the RIGHT button on the link (clicking the left button will list the file.  You don't want that)

Download:

http://inadep.com/download/CutPosture.xaf

http://inadep.com/download/Checker.Black-White.jpg

Get your coffee ready, turn on your 3DStudio MAX, with G3Female07.max loaded and:

It will include complete tutorials to do most of all things possible.

But they are free to watch at this friendship forum guild!

A few visitors are the lucky ones!

Mike

Other than my own silly mistakes.....the only little bit I had difficulty with in understanding from the tutorial Mike, was 'selecting the element on the mapping'...but I worked it out.  Just thought this might help anyone else finding the same.

Thank again, Mike, very interesting indeed.

Shy :) 

Once again Great Job!! ;)

As it happened, I had to edit a couple of times and it resulted in a somewhat obscure part at the point of selecting and arranging the mapping elements.

I did not explain well there, and my chihuahuas were bothering me as much as they could.

By such expression I meant to select the frontal mapping element so as to separate both because one is on top of the other.

With a little practice you will master the process.  Do it several times and do it with the Male character as well.

When you want to perfect certain mapping areas, like in the bossom middle, you can go to the UnwrapUVW Modifier edit window and, setting the select vertex mode, select only those critical vertex areas, to do a partial relax on them, always protecting the outside boundaries with the check box.

Also the small areas at the axillar region need a little bit of tweaking.  It can also be done by hand and I will make a small tutorial on tweaking so you learn how to adjust small mapping distortions.

What I forgot to say is:   After pushing the mesh into a thicker one, go back to the Unwrap UVW edit window, and REPEAT THE RELAXATION PROCESS, exactly as it is done the first time. Pushing always affects coordinates a little bit.

I am sure you realized the fact this mapping technique allows to make much easier connections in the clothing and the horizontal alignment is so good it is very practical to cut the opacity map.   Maybe you can make a better template, instead of using the rendered one.   It would be good to have a template with clever cut lines.

Another fact is at this point we are not using the "lower" part at all, so we can create two complete layers which, rather than being "upper and lower" in height they would be in depth, one above the other.

At my next tutorial I will show how to edit, relax and mould the mesh into new shapes.

I hope you will come up with your own character collection soon!

Mike

When creating the material for the clothing, be sure you set the material color boxes to pure white 240.   If not, the materials will be dark in nature.  This can also be corrected at iClone by raising the diffuse and ambient response color boxes as well.

I will also explain this in next tutorial.

Sorry for the omission!

Mike

Thanks for the Skin Wrap tip I had never looked at that when I was doing skinning funny enough. Great tool!!

Yea!  Skinwrap is a VERY interesting tool but scary to many, as it is difficult to understand how simple it is.   With it you can translate practically any skin to ANY object... (hummmm)

Let's see what you do....

Thanks for your great appreciation.  It is invaluable to me!

Mike

Thank you for the taking the time to share your expertise with everyone.

I appreciate your input.   Your suggestions are to be considered but I would like you to think about several things.

The Post title clearly says you are going to be making clothing. Right?  Sometimes we skip titles.  I agree!  But it certainly is well said at the beginning. ;)

In this case I wanted to put together a one piece tutorial which would be revealing to those already immersed in MAX developing and having certain doubts about how to go.  Going at a swing pace, from beginning to end, with turn around and repeats, explanations, etc, would make this tutorial about 1 or two hours long!

But I trusted the Shockwave Flash Object video, as you can go back as many times as you want and repeat any part as to be the teacher's assistant for those rascal students which usually don't pay a lot of attention! :D

I liked the "clap the thing" comment!  Actually I would like you to do it!  Follow the tutorial, do the thing, clap at the end and you will have several "skin layers" or clothing layers with different push factors, anyway you would like to call them, to easily paint textures on them and make clothing.  

Just as the title says.   I am sorry if you got confused at the beginning but I am sure you will catch up!

Thanks again!

Mike

I will be watching this tutorial quite a few more times, as it really is informative and interesting and you made it understandable, not like a lot of Max tutorials I have watched, which usually bore the pants off me.

Please do some more, podcasts would be a good idea too.

Give the doggies a big rub on their heads for me :).

Show me the way to go, you are a good instructor.

Christy.

Thanks ChristyO!

Mike

This tutorials are not dowloadable.  I post them as Shockwave Object so interested people visits the forum frequently.   We want a lot of visitors here!

So please come in as many times as you want to watch the videos.   once you've done it the first time, they will play very smoothly right from here!

Good lucl!

Mike

Or can I get the G3Female07.max file without becoming a certified artist?

Thanks in advance.

Just to answer your other question...If things haven't changed, you need to apply as a CCD Developer to get the MAX Female07 Templates. Part of the application requires you send some textured characters using current iCone characters such as Violet to demonstrate your talent.

Thanks.

Great Tutorial! Thank you for sharing your experience.

Unfortunately I was not able to get a satisfying result. The posture animation did not work (nothing happend when I loaded it) and I tryed to pose the character by myself in the same way you did but I really don't know if I did it in a proper way.
Furthermore it was not possible for me to weld the edges. The number of the vertexes only reduced when the value was at 8000 and that caused the issue you can see in the picture.

I would very much appreciate if you could help me and maybe tell me what went wrong:)

In this picture you can see the result of my efforts.

Thanks a lot!
digiMagic