====================================================================== ************************************************************ *Product Name: Dynamic Blouse for V4 *Copyright 13/7 2010 *By: Gustaf Grefberg ************************************************************ This is a dynamic blouse for V4. (Also works with A4, G4 etc) It comes in 3 versions, closed, half open and fully open. It comes with 29 different materials that each has 3 different transparency versions. It works nicely with a bra or tight top underneath. 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. Bra and jeans not included. -------------------------------------- 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 - DV texture fun by DVDesign - Fabric Flaire Bundle by Banphrionsa - 3DiCPoserMats By Ceridwen & 3Dillusions - Stitched up by Mystikel - 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 DynamicBlouse folder. To apply a material, go to materials, and then into the Grappo folder and into the DynamicBlouse 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 blouse) 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 blouse 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 blouse. Now, the blouse is parented to Victoria. If you scale Victoria, the blouse is scaled as well. This can be very useful. The blouse 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 blouse 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 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 blouse comes parented to Victoria 4. This means that if you move or scale her, the blouse 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 blouse 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 blouse 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" *********************************** * Collar version * *********************************** Each object comes in a version with the prefix "collar" in the name. This has a constrained collar, which is good if you want the blouse to sit a little bit tighter around her neck. ******************************************* * Potential problems and solutions * ******************************************* * If you use Poser 8, the blouse is known to occasionally cause a crash. This can happen when you start the cloth calculation. IF this happens to you, usually all you need to do is to click "clear simulation" before you start the calculation. If not, make sure to delete the cached cloth simulations in the folder where you store your poser project. * The seams are made as a soft decorated group and may sometimes come closer to V4's body than the rest of the cloth. If this becomes noticable, you may want to raise the collision offset a little, maybe to 0.500 and you should be fine. ***************** * Material Room * ***************** Applying materials is easy. Go into the material room, into the Grappo folder and into the DynamicBlouse 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 extra details on the seams and cuffs! 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 "Dynamicblouse_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 "Dynamicblouse_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. "Dynamicblouse_UV.jpg" Happy renderings! -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: ..Runtime\Textures\Grappo\DynamicBlouse\ Dynamicblouse_Basic.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Dark.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Dark_Red.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Disp.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Gold.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Green.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Purple.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Red.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Trans.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Trans2.jpg Dynamicblouse_Basic_Trans3.jpg Dynamicblouse_Flowers_Blue.jpg Dynamicblouse_Flowers_Green.jpg Dynamicblouse_Flowers_Purple.jpg Dynamicblouse_Ornament01.jpg Dynamicblouse_Ornament02.jpg Dynamicblouse_Ornament03.jpg Dynamicblouse_Silkpattern_blue.jpg Dynamicblouse_Silkpattern_brown.jpg Dynamicblouse_Silkpattern_pink.jpg Dynamicblouse_UV.jpg ..Runtime\Libraries\Materials\Grappo\DynamicBlouse\Poser6Mats\ Basic_Black.mc6 Basic_Black_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Black_Trans.mc6 Basic_Brown.mc6 Basic_Brown_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Brown_Trans.mc6 Basic_Cream.mc6 Basic_Cream_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Cream_Trans.mc6 Basic_Green.mc6 Basic_Green_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Green_Trans.mc6 Basic_Lightblue.mc6 Basic_Lightblue_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Lightblue_Trans.mc6 Basic_Mint.mc6 Basic_Mint_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Mint_Trans.mc6 Basic_Pink.mc6 Basic_Pink_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Pink_Trans.mc6 Basic_Purple.mc6 Basic_Purple_Trans.mc6 Basic_Red.mc6 Basic_Red_Sheer.mc6 Basic_Red_Trans.mc6 Basic_White.mc6 Basic_White_Sheer.mc6 Basic_White_Trans.mc6 Flowers_Blue.mc6 Flowers_Blue_Sheer.mc6 Flowers_Blue_Trans.mc6 Flowers_Green.mc6 Flowers_Green_Sheer.mc6 Flowers_Green_Trans.mc6 Flowers_Purple.mc6 Flowers_Purple_Sheer.mc6 Flowers_Purple_Trans.mc6 Ornament01_Blue.mc6 Ornament01_Blue_Sheer.mc6 Ornament01_Blue_Trans.mc6 Ornament01_Green.mc6 Ornament01_Green_Sheer.mc6 Ornament01_Green_Trans.mc6 Ornament01_Purple.mc6 Ornament01_Purple_Sheer.mc6 Ornament01_Purple_Trans.mc6 Satin_Black.mc6 Satin_Black_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Black_Trans.mc6 Satin_Burgundy.mc6 Satin_Burgundy_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Burgundy_Trans.mc6 Satin_Copper.mc6 Satin_Copper_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Copper_Trans.mc6 Satin_Cream.mc6 Satin_Cream_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Cream_Trans.mc6 Satin_Gold.mc6 Satin_Gold_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Gold_Trans.mc6 Satin_Lightblue.mc6 Satin_Lightblue_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Lightblue_Trans.mc6 Satin_Mint.mc6 Satin_Mint_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Mint_Trans.mc6 Satin_Pink.mc6 Satin_Pink_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Pink_Trans.mc6 Satin_Purple.mc6 Satin_Purple_Sheer.mc6 Satin_Purple_Trans.mc6 Satin_White.mc6 Satin_White_Sheer.mc6 Satin_White_Trans.mc6 Silkpattern_Blue.mc6 Silkpattern_Blue_Sheer.mc6 Silkpattern_Blue_Trans.mc6 Silkpattern_Lightbrown.mc6 Silkpattern_Lightbrown_Sheer.mc6 Silkpattern_Lightbrown_Trans.mc6 Silkpattern_Pink.mc6 Silkpattern_Pink_Sheer.mc6 Silkpattern_Pink_Trans.mc6 Basic_Black.png Basic_Black_Sheer.png Basic_Black_Trans.png Basic_Brown.png Basic_Brown_Sheer.png Basic_Brown_Trans.png Basic_Cream.png Basic_Cream_Sheer.png Basic_Cream_Trans.png Basic_Green.png Basic_Green_Sheer.png Basic_Green_Trans.png Basic_Lightblue.png Basic_Lightblue_Sheer.png Basic_Lightblue_Trans.png Basic_Mint.png Basic_Mint_Sheer.png Basic_Mint_Trans.png Basic_Pink.png Basic_Pink_Sheer.png Basic_Pink_Trans.png Basic_Purple.png Basic_Purple_Trans.png Basic_Red.png Basic_Red_Sheer.png Basic_Red_Trans.png Basic_White.png Basic_White_Sheer.png Basic_White_Trans.png Flowers_Blue.png Flowers_Blue_Sheer.png Flowers_Blue_Trans.png Flowers_Green.png Flowers_Green_Sheer.png Flowers_Green_Trans.png Flowers_Purple.png Flowers_Purple_Sheer.png Flowers_Purple_Trans.png Ornament01_Blue.png Ornament01_Blue_Sheer.png Ornament01_Blue_Trans.png Ornament01_Green.png Ornament01_Green_Sheer.png Ornament01_Green_Trans.png Ornament01_Purple.png Ornament01_Purple_Sheer.png Ornament01_Purple_Trans.png Satin_Black.png Satin_Black_Sheer.png Satin_Black_Trans.png Satin_Burgundy.png Satin_Burgundy_Sheer.png Satin_Burgundy_Trans.png Satin_Copper.png Satin_Copper_Sheer.png Satin_Copper_Trans.png Satin_Cream.png Satin_Cream_Sheer.png Satin_Cream_Trans.png Satin_Gold.png Satin_Gold_Sheer.png Satin_Gold_Trans.png Satin_Lightblue.png Satin_Lightblue_Sheer.png Satin_Lightblue_Trans.png Satin_Mint.png Satin_Mint_Sheer.png Satin_Mint_Trans.png Satin_Pink.png Satin_Pink_Sheer.png Satin_Pink_Trans.png Satin_Purple.png Satin_Purple_Sheer.png Satin_Purple_Trans.png Satin_White.png Satin_White_Sheer.png Satin_White_Trans.png Silkpattern_Blue.png Silkpattern_Blue_Sheer.png Silkpattern_Blue_Trans.png Silkpattern_Lightbrown.png Silkpattern_Lightbrown_Sheer.png Silkpattern_Lightbrown_Trans.png Silkpattern_Pink.png Silkpattern_Pink_Sheer.png Silkpattern_Pink_Trans.png ..Runtime\Libraries\Props\Grappo\DynamicBlouse\ Blouse_Buttoned.png Blouse_Buttoned_Collar.png Blouse_Halfopen.png Blouse_Halfopen_Collar.png Blouse_Open.png Blouse_Open_Collar.png Blouse_Buttoned.pp2 Blouse_Buttoned_Collar.pp2 Blouse_Halfopen.pp2 Blouse_Halfopen_Collar.pp2 Blouse_Open.pp2 Blouse_Open_Collar.pp2