====================================================================== ************************************************************ *Product Name: Dynamic Summerdress for V4 *Copyright 7/7 2010 *By: Gustaf Grefberg ************************************************************ This is a nice, loose and flowy summer dress for V4. It's made with a detailed, but simple mesh that ensures a fast but accurate drape. Displacement maps gives the cloth thickness that you otherwise usually only see in conforming clothing. This dress is perfect for hot summer days, on the beach, or even as lingerie. The dress comes with 27 different materials, each with a transparent version. An UV map is included, made so you can easily and quickly make your own custom textures. The readme file contains more info on how to use it in the cloth room. -------------------------------------- System Requirements: Poser 6 or higher Victoria 4 by Daz3d -------------------------------------- Ownership Statement: All of this product's content was created by Gustaf Grefberg and may include derivatives of the following merchant resources: - Photos from 3d.sk - Merchant's glory by Tabala - Designer treasures by Liudmila Metaeva - Designer patterns by Liudmila Metaeva - Clothtextures Vol 3 and 5 by HandspanStudios - DV texture fun by DVDesign - Fabric Flaire Bundle by Banphrionsa - Patterned Silk Resource Pack 01 by Lynn Johnson - Leathertrims by Karanta - 3DiCPoserMats By Ceridwen & 3Dillusions - Tiedye by Mystikel - Brushmix by Karanta - Own resources -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Unzip the files into your poser directory. To open a clothing item, you go to props, then into the Grappo folder and then into the DynamicSummerDress folder. To apply a material, go to materials, and then into the Grappo folder and into the DynamicSummerdress folder. -------------------------------------- Usage Tips or Limitations: ************************** * Cloth Room quick start * ************************** This is a quick introduction in how to use these clothes. For a basic understanding of the cloth room, please refer to the Poser reference manual or various freely available tutorials online. But even without that, these instructions should help you getting started. 1. Load Victoria 4. 2. On frame 1, keep her in her zero pose, without any morphs loaded. (You can have facial morphs, since they don't affect the dress) 3. Somewhere between frame 10-15 (Or more if you feel its needed), put Vicky in the final pose that you want. Here you can also load or apply any custom V4 morphs that you want, that alters her body one way or the other. (Including other Daz characters like Aiko 4, The Girl 4, or Stephanie 4.) The cloth simulation needs to start with Vicky zeroed in the first frame, so that the dress can drape or stretch into the final frame. 4.(IMPORTANT!) Before you load any of the clothing props, make sure you have Vicky selected. Then load the dress. Now, the dress is parented to Victoria. If you scale Victoria, the dress is scaled as well. This can be very useful. The dress can stretch, if you scale victoria down down in size in the starting pose, and be normal in size in the final pose. If you have loaded a pose and morphs in the final frame, there is already a keyframe here, so all you have to do is to scale victoria down a bit in the starting pose. Make sure you have victoria's BODY selected when doing this. 5. Go to "New Simulation" and set the desired amount of frames. Usually this is the same number as your final pose frame. 7. Then you select "Collide against", and as collision object choose Victoria 4. You can choose her whole body, or to speed up the simulation a bit, check the ignore head, feet and hand collection boxes. A good collision offset value is somewhere between 0.300-0.400. Collision distance is usually good around 0.400. To keep the dress from intersecting with the rest of the fabric, having the self collision box checked can help, but only if necessary, since it can slow down the simulation a bit. 8. In the DYNAMICS CONTROLS, you can experiment with fold resistance, to give the fabric some more creases, or decrease it to make the material a little bit tougher. The default value of 1.000 is usually good for flowy fabric like this (You can go even lower if you like it that way. Cloth density can give interesting effects too. The default value is usually good, but you can try raising or lowering it a bit (If you raise it you probably want to increase the stretch resistance, or the whole thing might just slide off of her.) When you have everything set up the way you like click "Calculate Simulation", and watch the progress or go have some coffee. :) *********************************** * Using parented scale * *********************************** The dress comes parented to Victoria 4. This means that if you move or scale her, the dress will follow. Now, if you scale her in the starting pose, it will affect the cloth simulation. (Just make sure that she is scaled to normal/100% in your final pose) For example, if you want the dress to stretch or fit tighter in the final pose, just scale vicky down. When you do this scaling, make sure to have Victoria's BODY selected. This is very useful if you want the dress to fit tightly to your character. Now, this dress is loose and has a "one size fits all", but if you have a very dainty or very curvy character and want a different fit, it can be beneficial to experiment a bit with the scaling. If your V4 figure is named to something else than "Victoria 4" sometimes the parent doesn't set when you load the garment, if that's the case, just go into the object menu and parent it to Victoria 4's "body" ***************** * Material Room * ***************** Applying materials is easy. Go into the material room, into the Grappo folder and into the DynamicSummerdress folder. Just click on a material and it's applied all the zones. Just make sure the dress is selected. ***************** * Render tips * ***************** Make sure to render with displacement maps on on the render options, if you want the neckline and hem to have thickness! If you think that the displacement map is too strong or too weak, you can also adjust their strength in the material room (advanced tab) Just make sure to adjust it in all the zones. ************************ * General Stuff * ************************ If you wish to make your own textures, you will find an UV map called "Summerdress_UV.jpg" where the rest of the textures are stored. As far as the legal stuff goes, see the renderosity license txt file. But as a general rule, use it however you want in your personal or commercial projects, just dont redistribute the package, in whole or in part, to make a competing product! Note! You may use the basic texture "Summerdress_Basic.jpg" as a template for your own materials and redistribute them! This means you can take this image, and use it as a layer in PSP/PS for seams etc. You may also do the same thing with the displacement map. "Summerdress_UV.jpg" Happy renderings! -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: ..Runtime\Textures\Grappo\DynamicSummerdress\ Summerdress_Basic.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Blue.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Green.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Pink.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Red.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Teal.jpg Summerdress_Basic_Yellow.jpg Summerdress_Disp.jpg Summerdress_Flowers.jpg Summerdress_Flowers_Nature.jpg Summerdress_Flowers_Ocean.jpg Summerdress_Flowers_Trans.jpg Summerdress_Flowers2.jpg Summerdress_Flowers2_Purple.jpg Summerdress_Flowers2_Red.jpg Summerdress_Flowers2_Trans.jpg Summerdress_Flowers3.jpg Summerdress_Flowers3_Blue.jpg Summerdress_Flowers3_Green.jpg Summerdress_Silk01.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Black.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Blue.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Cyan.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Gold.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Green.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Purple.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Red.jpg Summerdress_Silk01_Trans.jpg Summerdress_Trans.jpg Summerdress_Trans2.jpg Summerdress_UV.jpg Summerdress_Waves.jpg Summerdress_Waves_Bluegreen.jpg Summerdress_Waves_Nature.jpg ..Runtime\Libraries\Materials\Grappo\DynamicSummerdress\P6 Mats\ Flowers01_Nature.mc6 Flowers01_Nature_Trans.mc6 Flowers01_Ocean.mc6 Flowers01_Ocean_Trans.mc6 Flowers01_Purple.mc6 Flowers01_Purple_Trans.mc6 Flowers02_Blue.mc6 Flowers02_Blue_Trans.mc6 Flowers02_Purple.mc6 Flowers02_Purple_Trans.mc6 Flowers02_Red.mc6 Flowers02_Red_Trans.mc6 Flowers03_Blue.mc6 Flowers03_Blue_Trans.mc6 Flowers03_Green.mc6 Flowers03_Green_Trans.mc6 Flowers03_Pink.mc6 Flowers03_Pink_Trans.mc6 Plain_Blue.mc6 Plain_Blue_Trans.mc6 Plain_Green.mc6 Plain_Green_Trans.mc6 Plain_Pink.mc6 Plain_Pink_Trans.mc6 Plain_Red.mc6 Plain_Red_Trans.mc6 Plain_Teal.mc6 Plain_Teal_Trans.mc6 Plain_White.mc6 Plain_White_Trans.mc6 Plain_Yellow.mc6 Plain_Yellow_Trans.mc6 Silk_Black.mc6 Silk_Black_Trans.mc6 Silk_Blue.mc6 Silk_Blue_Trans.mc6 Silk_Cyan.mc6 Silk_Cyan_Trans.mc6 Silk_Gold.mc6 Silk_Gold_Trans.mc6 Silk_Green.mc6 Silk_Green_Trans.mc6 Silk_Purple.mc6 Silk_Purple_Trans.mc6 Silk_Red.mc6 Silk_Red_Trans.mc6 Silk_White.mc6 Silk_White_Trans.mc6 Waves_Bluegreen.mc6 Waves_Bluegreen_Trans.mc6 Waves_Nature.mc6 Waves_Nature_Trans.mc6 Waves_Purple.mc6 Waves_Purple_Trans.mc6 Flowers01_Nature.png Flowers01_Nature_Trans.png Flowers01_Ocean.png Flowers01_Ocean_Trans.png Flowers01_Purple.png Flowers01_Purple_Trans.png Flowers02_Blue.png Flowers02_Blue_Trans.png Flowers02_Purple.png Flowers02_Purple_Trans.png Flowers02_Red.png Flowers02_Red_Trans.png Flowers03_Blue.png Flowers03_Blue_Trans.png Flowers03_Green.png Flowers03_Green_Trans.png Flowers03_Pink.png Flowers03_Pink_Trans.png Plain_Blue.png Plain_Blue_Trans.png Plain_Green.png Plain_Green_Trans.png Plain_Pink.png Plain_Pink_Trans.png Plain_Red.png Plain_Red_Trans.png Plain_Teal.png Plain_Teal_Trans.png Plain_White.png Plain_White_Trans.png Plain_Yellow.png Plain_Yellow_Trans.png Silk_Black.png Silk_Black_Trans.png Silk_Blue.png Silk_Blue_Trans.png Silk_Cyan.png Silk_Cyan_Trans.png Silk_Gold.png Silk_Gold_Trans.png Silk_Green.png Silk_Green_Trans.png Silk_Purple.png Silk_Purple_Trans.png Silk_Red.png Silk_Red_Trans.png Silk_White.png Silk_White_Trans.png Waves_Bluegreen.png Waves_Bluegreen_Trans.png Waves_Nature.png Waves_Nature_Trans.png Waves_Purple.png Waves_Purple_Trans.png ..Runtime\Libraries\Props\Grappo\DynamicSummerDress\ DynamicSummerDress.png DynamicSummerDressCS.png DynamicSummerDress.pp2 DynamicSummerDressCS.pp2