HI Byron - you can do clothing and Body separate, but to make sure you
do not get intersecting, it is advisable to keep the topology similar -
number of points and layout! I.E do not have your body with lots more
points than the shirt over it, as the enveloping will act differently to
the difference in points and structure! Or just use cloth - Syflex or
XSI cloth - pin the neck area and weight it, then cloth the rest using
the body as a collision - or even setup scaled spheres constrained to
the relevant bones as collision objects!!
As for Fur inside clothes - mmmm this does become tricky - I know that
foe the likes of Stuart little, they had similar problems, so had to do
different render passes and composite!
S.
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Byron Nash
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:32 PM
To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Tips for modeling clothing for enveloping
I'm working on a cartoony character that has tight clothes. I don't
normally do character stuff so I sort of fumble around on this stuff.
When I modeled him originally, I made the shirt and shorts separate
objects. This made it easier to model and texture, but when it came time
to envelope, it was a real pain. The clothes and body kept intersecting
and shifting due to slightly different weighting. Is it better to make
everything one mesh and use clusters or masks to break the texture up?
The character also may end up having fur all over it and I was having a
terrible time keeping the hair from penetrating his clothes. Tips or
suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
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Byron Nash
www.armoredsquirrel.com
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