"Stephen" <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> schreef in bericht 
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> On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:32:02 +0200, "Thomas de Groot" 
> <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet>
> wrote:
>
>>What I am still puzzled about is saving as dynamic cloth. That works - I
>>think - but loading it again doesn't show anything...
>
> What do you mean? "loading it again doesn't show anything."
> Show what?
Well, I thought that saving in Poser as a dynamic cloth, you could load it 
again another time with all its characteristics, but what really happens 
then is that a green cross appears, but no object, nor does the recalculate 
dynamics work then. Oh well, I think I have to read the manual more 
carefully...

> I have been saving (exporting) the objects as OBJ's. Remember that you 
> have to
> export as multi-frame with the range 30 to 30. Where 30 is the number of 
> frames
> in the animation. You loose the dynamic groups but I generally used 
> materials
> for grouping.
Yes, usually I do that (although not multi-frame as yet). Still part of my 
future experimentations.

> When the cloth folds in on itself don't be afraid to use a high number of 
> steps
> per frame. For some of the dresses I tried I went as high as 80 and often 
> used
> 60 steps per frame with an offset of 0.1
Yes, that is certainly true! I went as high as 10 till now, but just for 
experimental purposes. I also noticed that the number of draping frames is 
very important for the quality of the folding. I am going to increase that 
too.

Thomas

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On Thu, 3 May 2007 14:05:41 +0200, "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet>
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>Well, I thought that saving in Poser as a dynamic cloth, you could load it 
>again another time with all its characteristics, but what really happens 
>then is that a green cross appears, but no object, nor does the recalculate 
>dynamics work then. Oh well, I think I have to read the manual more 
>carefully...

Green Cross?
I tried it out and I can save my dress as a Prop. It is saved with an image but
in the "Zero" position. It does keep the clothing groups. I did it by selecting
the skirt opening the props menu and pressing the + sign. In the Set Name pop
up, change the text, press Select subset, then select the prop and OK. Click OK
and it was saved with the preview image.


>> I have been saving (exporting) the objects as OBJ's. Remember that you 
>> have to
>> export as multi-frame with the range 30 to 30. Where 30 is the number of 
>> frames
>> in the animation. You loose the dynamic groups but I generally used 
>> materials
>> for grouping.
>Yes, usually I do that (although not multi-frame as yet). Still part of my 
>future experimentations.

I've tried to cut out the start from zero pose.

>> When the cloth folds in on itself don't be afraid to use a high number of 
>> steps
>> per frame. For some of the dresses I tried I went as high as 80 and often 
>> used
>> 60 steps per frame with an offset of 0.1
>Yes, that is certainly true! I went as high as 10 till now, but just for 
>experimental purposes. I also noticed that the number of draping frames is 
>very important for the quality of the folding. I am going to increase that 
>too.

Minimum draping frames 20, I've found. You have a super duper machine I'm sure
it's fast :-)

Regards
	Stephen

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