"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> Well, what do you think of Silo (see the screenshot in my answer to Stephen,
> above)?  :-)

Silo looks nice. It seems to have helped to cut the bottoms a bit. Anyway,
your pantaloons are not that easy to UV map. :) Another trick is to warp
the stripes in Photoshop (or whatever else can do this) by pinching them in
at the wide part of the pant legs.

> However, I think that the RL approach and the modelling approach are
> necessarily different. What no modeller like Wings or Silo can do (correct
> me if Blender is different from this) is to deform a mesh, keeping the same
> net surface area. You always scale the mesh one way or another by bending,
> translating, or rotating vertexes, edges or whole surfaces. In RL this only
> happens with really stretch-prone materials like spandex.

I think what matters the most with UV mapping is how close the UV map "mesh"
is to the 3D object's mesh. The more deformation (stretch) on the UV map vs.
the object mesh, the more warping you will get. Blender has the ability to
minimize the stretch on the UV map. I don't know if Silo does, but it would
be worth looking into. Especially if you want to use stripes! lol :)

> Ah yes, magnets. Still have to learn to use those. Thanks for reminding me
> Janet!
>
> > Poser 7 has a morphing tool you could use to get rid of "poke through",
> > and
> > also modify the figure, check out:
> > http://www.renderosity.com/news.php?viewStory=13544
>
> Another tool I have yet to learn to use!!

My feeling is that the morphing tool is better than the magnets. It just has
to be, right, or why would they add that feature?

> You really like to rub in the salt, don't you?  :-)

Yes, I'll admit it. Should I be kinder?

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