A new set of high quality Cloths for iClone is Born. Meet "Pirates"! The latest release from Bigboss... These new Cloths will soon be available at the Reallusion Online Content Store...

Here's a sneak Preview !

These Cloth bridge the Gap of existing iClone Cloth technology by introducing the capability of using "Fully Weighted" Accessories on your Avatars, e.g. the Pirate Belt and Rope will actually follow every move of the Avatar in a flexible way as if they were real !

A Demo Video will soon be posted once we have a fully textured pirate crew so you can appreciate the flexibility and quality of this new Release.

Keep Posted!   

Naturally!   The precedent placed by C4G3 and 3D MagicSuit has created a new class of clothing mesh, where details are part of the mesh rather than leaving it all to textures!

We could say, this nice Pirates are the first BB entrance into Pre Cut designs although we have seen some others in minor scale.

That is fine BB!   Don't miss my tutorials next week!

Too bad we could not see the "weighted" accessories in action but I expect next video will let us see!

I was not going to get into this discussion but since you so gently opened the door, I now have to explain to you the reasons why I actually do not use anything near your C4G3 or pre-Cut Mesh Approach...

The way you implemented pre-cut meshes, as you so carefully displayed in your 3D Magic Suit Tutorial:

1)      Requires the user to load SEVERAL texture files in iClone, i.e. one texture file per pre-cut mesh. Using High Resolution Textures, this approach WILL CONSUME EXCESSIVE GRAPHICS MEMORY in your Graphic card.  Therefore, you limit the user to using LOW RESOLUTION TEXTURES or using very small high resolution texture files forcing him to do HEAVY TILING WORK. Furthermore, using large textures for large parts and small textures for small parts quickly becomes unmanageable..

2)      Requires the user to spend most of his time finding, loading and adjusting the tiling of textures which is very time consuming.

3)      Render SAVING MATERIALS for your character an INCOMMENSURABLE TASK as the user will now have to save in excess of 100 Material files instead of saving 3 Material Files for exchanging textures between characters. i.e. UPPER, LOWER,SHOES. Furthermore, considering that renaming materials is only supported in iClone4, the user will rapidly loose track of his texture files. 

4) Use excessive Polygon counts for portraying the details as opposed to a clever use of high resolution texturing with bump map.

My approach in Skintight products do not have any of the above artifacts but rather uses a clever approach to texturing and mapping characters (now including accessories) which allow for the creation of complex Characters that are easily modifyable and maintainable by the user. Furthermore, texturing of Skintight characters is done via a very small number of high resolution texture files thus optimizing Graphics Card on-board Memory use and procure optimal Character Renderings. To date, I have not seen any competing products, including reallusion products use a similar approach.

Cheers!. ;)

I appreciate your description and inaccurate analysis of my OWN products!:w00t:

I am amazed on how many wrong conclusions you can make in such a small space!   But it is understandable because I don't think you are one of the so  many real Apparition Users, which have not issued a SINGLE complaint about the "things" you say about my product.  Not a single one in my complete sales record!

Hence your wrong comments are totally unauthorized, biased and wrongly concluded.

I just commented about yours showing you decided to Pre Cut the mesh to shape it into some garments that don't go all the way from top to bottom, as the pirate coat, for instance.

I was NOT criticizing your product at all.  But it seems it is very difficult to come into your posts with nothing else than pure expressions of "admiration".

I can see it is a mistake to address you in ANY way.  So I better keep away off your postings until I notice some degree of fraternity and desire to exchange.

But I need to make it clear to all possible readers:    All things stated here about C4G3 and Apparition products are absolutely confusing, mistaken and certainly biased.

(A good post taken down from here this morning methinks. A shame).

We put so much effort and pride in our work that I simply could not accept Mike's statement and allegations without reacting.

Your support is GREATLY appreciated. :)

What about a pirate with a wooden leg, is that possible?;)

But the Peg Leg Pirate was already part of the Upcoming pack! ;)

I was keeping the surprise for the upcoming PRODUCT LAUNCH but since you ask the question ...

Here is a Sneak Preview just for you !!!

BIGBOSS's PIRATES PACK SNEAK PREVIEW 2 ...

G3 PEG LEG PIRATE !!!:D

The Pirates Pack comes with several Cloths including the crippled Pirate with a Peg Leg!

Of course, the Package also contains the relevant AML and Motions for each Character :)

Below is a quick demonstration of the Peg Leg Pirate in Motion.

NOTE: The Cabin scene was graciously provided by AnimaTechnica {Aknzrdude}. 

Keep posted :hehe: 

Looks to be a very good pack indeed.

Great Stuff!

Geoff.