Using the QuickDress - Introduction

Morphography tutorials

A Guide to Using the QuickDress - Part 1

• Main Index • Tutorial Index • Introduction • Initial Shaping • Cutting the Cloth • What to do Next •

• Introduction

The QuickDress is a mesh in OBJ format designed to ease the making of dresses and skirts. It's based on the QuickSuit by Thip, and is distributed with his permission.

The QuickDress isn't a ready-made piece of clothing, although you can use it as dynamic cloth in Poser's Cloth Room (version 5 and upwards). You're supposed to use it as a short-cut to modelling dresses for DAZ's Victoria 3, and this page will give brief instructions on how to do that.

• What You Need

You'll need a few things to be able to use the QuickDress:

The QuickDress itself (obviously). You can download your copy of the QuickDress here.
Poser - preferably a version with the Cloth Room, i.e. 5 or above. You can use the QuickDress to make conforming clothing for use in Poser 3, 4 or ProPack; but that's more complex, and I won't cover it here. You can have a look at my tutorial An Introduction to Modelling for more information.
A modelling program. A very simple one will do, and I'll be using the free Anim8or to illustrate this tutorial.
A UV mapping program; the free UVMapper will do the job just fine.

• Every Step You Take

These are the basic steps that are outlined in this guide:

Initial Shaping - the QuickDress can be shaped within Poser, using its built-in morphs, and / or the Poser magnets and deformers. If you would rather use a 3D modeller, this step can be skipped; go straight on to:
Cutting the Cloth - here, you cut away the bits you don't need, and if necessary add the bits you do. Shaping can be done here as well.
What to do Next - you now have a mesh. What you do next depends on which version of Poser you have. In Poser 5 (or more), you can use the cloth room to make the mesh into dynamic clothing; in any version, you can make conforming clothing.

Next: Shaping the Mesh

• Main Index • Tutorial Index • Introduction • Initial Shaping • Cutting the Cloth • What to do Next •