the daily life of models

[punkduck]

I was sure, that my model Evi has no secrets. But she always was looking in the forum, if there is some lovely guy somewhere. I did not know, how she made it without informing me, but she was able to get in contact with Kamden. First Kamden visited Berlin and then he was moving further to Austria. He just stopped in Nuremberg, then Evi was gone

I dunno, it was love at first sight, I guess.

Well Evi will go to Sweden now. But only one copy of her. This is the advantage of virtual people. Thank you Mindfront to make this rendezvous possible and thank you Elvaerwyn for the clothes (since I am not allowed to do the scene with nude characters I could create this scene without doing own further assets ) . I just enjoyed the collaboration of different forum members!

(background pictures are own pictures made in Mittersill, Austria)

[Mindfront]

Evi and Kamden returned safe to Sweden. Kamden always drive keeping the speed limits or slower and half the time Evi drove. It's better to arrive late than never. Two images posted in my thread viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15545&p=46759#p46759
And punkduck, thank you back, this project was and still is (one image left) great fun.

[punkduck]

After a longer time of render-abstinence I did a picture again. The next pictures show the result of weighted shrink-wrap with a hi-poly tri-mesh I got from Elvaerwyn. Using the changed mhx2 exporter it now works without problem using triangles, when I select vertices in Blender.

So after being sure that no skin was outside the dress (e.g. nipples), I activated shrink-wrap to follow the body. But this time only for parts of the dress, so that no latex-dress was created. Here is the weight-painting of Elvs dress (excluding the zipper at the back):

Red means "follow the body" and blue "stay as you are". It works rather fine until arms or hands are touching the painted areas. Unfortunately the complete body is selected as object to shrink to, maybe a duplicated and animated but invisible body without arms, head and feet might even work better ..., but I managed it at least.

Btw.: Evi changed a bit in face region, I used blender to move the eyebrows to this lower location. Until now, no target is able to simulate this (maybe I will add a target somewhen), but slowly Evi matches more and more the original girl, whoever that may be.

Thanx a lot for the dress, Elv

[wolgade]

Great dress and Evi improved a lot. Weighted shrinkwrap looks promising, but you could go even further using cloth simulation for the lower part of the dres.

It works rather fine until arms or hands are touching the painted areas. Unfortunately the complete body is selected as object to shrink to, maybe a duplicated and animated but invisible body without arms, head and feet might even work better

Using a duplicated body is the way to go. I had to use this technique here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/download/file.php?id=6988&mode=view

I used a duplicated body without arms as a cloth collider. Otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to place Evi's left hand on her leg.

[Mindfront]

Great dress, like the color and especially the ribbon skirt.

Weighted shrink-wrap, yes, funny I forgot it's possible Thanks for the reminder

It works rather fine until arms or hands are touching the painted areas. Unfortunately the complete body is selected as object to shrink to, maybe a duplicated and animated but invisible body without arms, head and feet might even work better ..., but I managed it at least.

Thats sounds like a good solution to try.

Btw.: Evi changed a bit in face region, I used blender to move the eyebrows to this lower location. Until now, no target is able to simulate this (maybe I will add a target somewhen), but slowly Evi matches more and more the original girl, whoever that may be.

Our characters are in constant metamorphosis Never finished...

Looking forward to try your mhx2 exporter.

[punkduck]

Elvaerwyn did another dress, where I first had no idea, where she had this idea from. But it was too extraordinary not to do a scene with it.

Since the dress has similarities with dresses used in World of Warcraft, I decided to create a location similar to the throne of tides. It is a free interpretation so, the throne should not be like marble or other real materials, it should be colourful and playful like in the game itself.

Since I am no gamer, I had to create it from a single screenshot. I hope it is not that wrong and you like it.

[wolgade]

Interesting dress. I've never seen a woman wearing something similar to this. And I certainly would remember.

[punkduck]

I also want to present something new. I did a treasure chest for Elvaerwyn (see: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16910&start=13) and then decided to create also something which reminds us of pirates. So I searched for fashion combined with the term "pirate" and decided not to take a costume for carnival (although it is carnival season in Germany at the moment ).

So here is something between steampunk style and cosplay of course. The boots are made by Elv ... corset and blouse are new. I will add the new clothes to the assets later.

[Elvaerwyn]

Very nice work, cannot wait to see the outfit get a true workout! XD

[punkduck]

Well Elv, it took some time to create a flintlock pistol (based on a 17th century English King William III dragoon pistol) to equip a more meaningful scenery. The weapon is rather big (approx. 50 cm long, but weight is less than 2 kg as far as I know). So presenting "pirate"-fashion is now combined with stealing (or defeating?) jewelry. The jewelry is a resized version of the earrings my friend Elvaerwyn made (I used it for a picture with Noelia before).

Well decide yourself, if the weapon is more dangerous for the person who shoots or for the opponent
Btw.: after the photo-shooting I have to bring back the weapon to the museum ... otherwise I will have problems ...

(the pistol is quad-only ... maybe I pipe it through makeclothes )