Adding thickness to clothes?
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Hello,
When you make a garment in the marvelous designer it is made of flat plane actually, right ?
so my question is do you add thickness after in zbrush (or other software) ?
When you make a garment in the marvelous designer it is made of flat plane actually, right ?
so my question is do you add thickness after in zbrush (or other software) ?
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I usually advise to export it as a thin mesh and selectively add thickness later to make retopo easier, but that depends on what you're doing. To be honest even when I need it fully thick I generally avoid exporting thick meshes and add the thickness through the solidify modifier anyway because it's non-destructive and tidier.
so now i know it is. So it's the right way to create clothes ready for production . Just to clear my doubts.
thank you.
Usually you only have thickness where you need it, with a small amount of lining in areas like cuffs and the bottom of coats to keep the player from spotting culled backfaces. It's the same principle of deleting parts of the body, but the fastest way to clear up your questions is to download character models from games of same target quality and study them. This is the sort of detail that conveniently leaves clear evidence behind.
Two notes: It's useful to have a fully thick mesh in your source files and delete faces only once you learn what will be visible, this way you don't have to fret if it turns out some area needs inner lining for a specific animation. And of course, the UVs should take this reclaimed real estate into account.
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