Post by SSAfam1 on Jul 31, 2010 11:18:19 GMT -5
SSAfam1, I did not group the T-shirt. If I understand this term correctly, I have to use shading domains to cut the object up and name each part as V4's body parts - is this right ?
Grouping, as far as bones being added into your modeled object, does not depend on shading domains. Shading Domains are used to identify different parts, as well as to isolate those parts for coloring or texturing. I.e. a shirt with a collar. You can apply a shading domain to the collar so it stands apart from the rest of the shirt. In doing so, the collar can be one color and the shirt can be another.
Many use shading domains for their base mannequin
(V4,M4,A4, H4 etc---whoever you're making your clothes for) to make it easier to see where one body part (ie rCollar) stops and the other starts.
Grouping, is looking at your modeled item, seeing which body parts it affects on your mannequin, then adding the same exact parts to your clothing. This is to make it so if you have a shirt, and your character moves his body...say he moves his rCollar up/down or side to side, you need a rCollar bone in that shirt so it'll move in the same manner that the character moved. This is what Conforming clothing is. If you're making dynamic (which I doubt YOU are because you work in Daz Studio) you wouldn't need to group. You'd just export your modeled shirt and then take the obj and run it through Posers Cloth room.
Below is a shirt I just modeled for the MilBaby 3. I pointed to all the body parts this kind of shirt touches (even if only a little---it still counts) so MILBaby comes with these groups (neck,chest,abdomen,hip,rCollar,lCollar,rShldr,lShldr,rForeArm,lForearm
lButtock,rButtock,lThigh,). These groups must be duplicated in your shirt.
Your obj needs to be grouped before using FST. You can do your grouping manually within Hexagon or use a grouping tool like AutoGroup Editor.
Other grouping tools and their locations HERE.
BTW. I used Shading Domains to color code the mannequin. Let me know if you need a tutorial on that OR one on clothing (ie having a colored collar, trim, sleeve).