Afraid of buying dForce Clothing
This dForce thing is a really great idea and is a great image enhancer. But I'm scared to try it because I was burned on Dynamic Clothing back in Gen2. What frustrated me about Dynamic was endless tweak draping that seemed to undo previous work and eventually the clothing became a puddle on the floor. I realize using dForce on older clothing generations requires some effort and seems to be a little more user friendly (from what I can tell from tutorials) than Dynamic. My big question here is...if I were to buy Gen8 dForce ready clothing, is it "smart"? I mean, if i put it on a character and make her dance will it know what to do on it's own? Or does it stil require some work? 90% of my work on Daz is series work. If I was only working on 1 picture at a time, I would have ZERO problem diving into dForce because of how visually appealing it is. But when I'm doing 100+ pic series, I need to make sure I'm using my time wisely in order to meet deadlines.
Any info or experiance anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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If you have installed the dForce starter pack, it comes with a dforce dress. Why don't you just give it a try and see for yourself?
As for your questions, the clothing follows the character, and looks fine on movement. Of course, if you have older clothing, it's a bit more trickier, but I made very good experiences with the dforce clothing setting set that came out recently.
The best thing about dForce is, that you are not forced to use it, as long as you can live without the additional effects done by dForce. Clothes still work as normal, un-dForced clothes. They have the usual morphs.
If you then would like to delve into the adventure of using the extra abilities that dForce has - like a more realistical "drop" of the clothes - the clothes that are sold as "dForce ready" should (!) give you the least trouble when used with dForce. Old clothes can be a bit tricky, as soon as they have pockets, different cloth zones, buttons etc. etc. Most of these need additional attention - weightmap adjustment - to keep them in place. And many folds that collide with each other often lets clothes explode...
So in my opinion, with dForce ready clothes you can just work as you did until now and are better off when dForce really is working perfectly (as it's still in an early version afaik).
With some exceptions, lol. Please do not buy my Roman set hoping to use it without dForce, because the togas are going do very badly without sim. I waited for YEARS for a dynamic system for DS good enough to do togas!
The good thing about learning how, though - you can use dForce with a lot of preexisting outfits if you put in a little time learning, and not spend a dime until you're ready. Mada has amazing tutorials:
Do the togas also work on other generations? I was thinking about buying them, but then decided against it, because they are rigged A-Pose for G8, and I use almost exclusively older generations....
An animated drape should work, though I think the stola may need a special starting pose as it seems to have an non-dynamic anchor area at the elbow.
I was just thinking of either posing the Genesis 3 in the Genesis 8 pose adn frame 0 for an animated drape or, belatedly, posing Genesis 3 to match Genesis 8, Memorising the pose, and draping from the memorised pose - either way the clothes should not be fitted to the figure, to avoid AutoFit. I have done that with other sets, though not with the Toga set.
I have the same misgivings and was burned on the same purchases. I've tried dForce on some of the clothes I have and it crashes Studio every time.
This definitely works too.