Clothing- Separate or integral?

[patmat2350]

Hello, complete noobie here, just starting to read through the clothing tutorials. But to make sure I'm heading in the right direction, a quick question please:

I want to make static figures for 3D printing. Loose or layered clothing won't make for a printable .stl... so, is it best to model clothing directly from the human's skin? Or is it just as well to put a shrink wrap over the loose clothing and human?

TIA, Pat M

[joepal]

Which is best is hard to say, but the clothing exported from MH is (usually) hanging a short distance outside the skin. Pieces of clothing are always separate meshes.

[duststorm]

Probably the best approach would be using MH's face hiding feature (default on) and then poisson remeshing the exported result to close the holes and make a watertight mesh.