Hi all,
I'm creating a set of casual clothes for clothing my makehuman characters. If people are interested I'm willing to share them, for example to be included in MH. The purpose is to create a library of people and interchangeable clothes (with different textures or color/pattern variations) to quickly create crowds of people. Much like, for example, RocketBox people packages.
The library would include things like jeans, t-shirt, shirt and others both for males and females.
Here's a preview of what I'm working on now. The texturing is not done yet:
Now, to make these really useful for MH users, the clothes have to scale together with the exported MH mesh. I'm looking to create reusable .mhclo files but I have some questions concerning this:
- At the moment, are loosely fitting clothes supported?
For example the jeans is not tight fitting. It's male jeans that fits loosely around the legs (which actually makes it easier to fit it on more models without intersections). If I would create a .mhclo file of my jeans and export it with a MH model, will it fit tightly around the body or will it respect the relative distance to the legs?
- The model is created from the low poly trousers mesh, subdivided and wrinkles are sculpted in. Can I distribute those?
Or will it only be possible to bake the ambient occlusion map on the texture and supply a normal map? At the moment I have the jeans in blender with a "Multires" modifier applied. The cool thing about this is, I can still modify the low resolution mesh, and the subdivided smoothed mesh will follow accordingly, leaving all the sculpted details intact.
- Finally: are there special things I need to be aware of to make it work?
I know the clothes need to have a UV map identical to the MH base mesh, but apart from that..
For example, I'm starting from the exported clothes meshes and modify those. Can I remove or add vertices to those?
Also, I'm working on a MH to blender 2.6 export which came from MakeHuman 3124 nightly. Did anything change that would break it for newer versions of MH?