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DForce Works on All clothes?

DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404
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Did I hear that right? So if I have a Genesis 2 outfit I use often, I can somehow apply dForce to it to make it drape? 

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  • evilded777evilded777 Posts: 2,466
    edited July 2018

    Yes and no. You will get variable results, some good, some truly awful.  Only way is to try and see.

     

    Edit > Geometry> Add Dforce Modifier Dynamic Surface.  I think this is covered in the DForce Start here thread....

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,841

    You can add dForce settings to any mesh. However depending on the item your results will vary: for example if your item is made from separate pieces not welded together then some pieces might fall when simulated.

    It's definitely worth a try though, some work pretty well with dForce.

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404
    edited July 2018

    Well I tried it and was amazed at the results! The outfit I was refering to has 2 pieces that appparently cooperate with dForce so that's good. The bad part is, I can only simulate once. If I change the pose and re-simulate it will start to simulate both, then it will saying "Error preparing objects to simulate". After that it won't simulate at all. Just keeps giving the same error message. I tried hiding one piece and sim'ing one at a time, no go. Deleteing the clothes and starting the dForce process over, nope. And most times it shuts down the program. Does anyone have any thoughts?

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,841

    Nice results!

    Once you get an error simulating it will usually error out for every try afterwards unless you restart DS.

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404
    edited July 2018

    Yeah that's what I found. I do a lot of series work so after one picture is saved, the story goes on which often means pose changes. Makes it hard to use dForce in a full series. My work around is just to pose  as normal without dForce (say I get 15-20 posed to my satisfaction) then re-open each picture and apply dForce, simulate, then save again. It takes a little time to shuffle from picture to picture and simulate but once it's done, it seems to batch render well and the overall realism is worth the extra time to me. The trick will be to remember to save the last picture as something different like 20PD(pre-dForce) so that way when I open my scene to resume posing, I don't open a picture that already has dForce applied. Sort of like a book mark. Hopefully one day it will be stable enough to handle a pose change and re-sim. Or maybe I just need a tougher rig. But until then...the beat goes on.

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    Have you tried "clear simulation" before you start a new simulation with a different pose?

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404

    I have not but I will now! Thanks Bee

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