How to Drape Clothing With Poser Software

Poser is a 3-D figure design and animation program. Artists create realistic images and animation using dynamic clothing and hair. With dynamic clothing, digital characters can wear something other than skin-tight clothing. Poser dynamic clothing and hair are processor intensive and have longer render times. The software bends, deforms and warps objects to stimulate silk, denim, cashmere and other fabrics.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open Poser and select a base model. Use the "Face and Hair" rooms to customize the character. Adjust the lighting, save the scene and load a dynamic clothing prop. Size the prop to fit the character. Select "Windows" and then "Animation Controls" and go to frame 30.

2. Pose the character and check both cameras and lighting. Enter the Cloth Room and click "Create New Simulation." Name the simulation and check "cloth self-collision" box. The cloth with bunch together instead of passing through itself.

3. Enter the number of drape frames for the object. This is the number of frames the cloth takes to settle when the character finishes moving.

4. Choose "Calculate Drape Frame" to begin calculations. With cloth draping, Poser figures how the object drapes on the character and saves this information. The clothing begins draped on the character in frame 1. The clothing drapes around the character again by the thirtieth frame.

5. Click "Clothify" to begin transforming the prop into dynamic clothing. Choose the "Start draping from zero pose" box. Selecting "Calculate Simulation" finished the process. Return to Pose Room and render the scene.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not change the pose of the character for the first frame. Dynamic Cloth objects fit characters in the default pose.