Thanks for posting this here, even if it wasn't supposed to be here.  Where
was it supposed to be?  p.b.m?.

I finally got a chance to really look at it this weekend.  While the clothes
were somewhat simple, it gave me a really good starting point, so I played
around with them, modifying things quite a bit in hamapatch, and referring
to this tutorial occasionally
(http://www.poserfashion.net/judy's_period_dress.htm).  It took me awhile to
realize that when you IMPORT the OBJ, or DXF into Poser, you need to "weld"
the polygons.  If you don't, your creation explodes into a thousand pieces
as soon as you run the cloth simulation.

Currently, I'm trying to make a simple dress for Penny, similar to what the
girls are wearing here http://www.beantoad.com/images/moss7.jpg in the front
row.  It looks like a good starting point.  While it's not exactly a simple
process, it appears to be quite possible.  Right now, what I have created
looks a lot like a girl's night-gown.  I'll post some pictures if I ever get
it into a decent state.

One problem: I can't get a decent model of Penny to import into Hamapatch.
I had to export to OBJ (from Poser), then import into a 3rd party utility
(IOB something?) then export as MDL, then import the MDL into hamapatch.
Unfortunately, by that point, Penny was mostly only a torso, with a few
triangles floating around for her head, arms, legs, hands, etc.  Even so, it
gave me something to work with, and was usable to some degree.

From hamapatch, I had to export as a DXF file, which loaded into Poser ok
(the OBJ would not), although sometimes I have to flip normals, and
sometimes I don't.  I don't know what causes that.  Other times, I end up
with missing poly's in the clothes.  Other times, I go to do the cloth
simulation, and I get stuck in an apparently infinite loop while it is
"Creating dynamics".  Unfortunately, exporting and importing non-native
formats from different programs probably isn't an ideal situation.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com


"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:4057968b@news.povray.org...
>
> Well, the only thing I think I have that worked at all (and this was
before
> I read about the chaotic cloth triangle thing) were these two files
> (attached) which made up a dress for an angel I was working on. Because I
> found it so hard to make the cloth, I decided to stop and work on a cloth
> generator. That grew into making a Patch Editor of my own, COLDstitch,
which
> I barely started until I decided I wanted to generate PoserHair with a
> program I called COLDconvert which I stopped to work on my own Installer
> because I'm so ticked at InstallSh-eld for being so damned expensive -- 
so,
> point is, I never finish anything :-)
>

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