Wiggly Unaligned Robe Mesh (Solved - Thank you)

[Julie J]

I'd taken the new robe from Master Suite and changed the legs on it to nude legs to make a nice short robe for males.

I did the legs as a seperate group lod 1.1 and lod 2.1

The body looks all wiggly and the neck and ankles aren't aligned properly. I've tried everything and still can't put it right

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af59/Juliemj39/badrobe.jpg

[whiterider]

That looks like a morphs problem. Try setting the body sliders to 50% fat/thin and 0% fit.
I don't know what could be causing the shaved stripe down the leg though - perhaps UV mapping? Or maybe you have an extra bit of leg there on the mesh, that you forgot to delete?

[Julie J]

Thanks - I'd already moved the belt on the UV map so it didn't overlap the leg since that pic but still have the unaligned joints and wiggly mesh
I'll take a look at the morphs or try doing it in TSR Workshop where all the morphs are seperate

[CmarNYC]

It's possible that the weird inner leg is caused in part by a known glitch in the mesh tangents after editing in Milkshape - doesn't really look like it but it's in the same place. Easiest way to test is to set the muscle definition slider to zero and see if it changes or goes away.

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=461800

[omegastarr82]

HA! I'm doing the same exact thing. Only I still need to move the bit of robe off of the legs in the UV. I'd say it's a morph thing, I was able to do the mesh and morphs without a hitch and all is good except the bit of robe overlapping the leg UV.

[BloomsBase]

Easiest way is indeed when using TSRW.
It is been a while but i think i took the 2 meshgroup formal shortdress and loaded the nude bottom in one and the custom robe in the other.
You might have to copy some boneassignements from one to another to have a correct animation.
http://www.bloomsbase.net/images/phocadownload/Clothes/phocathumbnail-bathrobe.jpg

[Julie J]

Thanks for all your help :)

I'l try again at the weekend when I have more time :)

[Julie J]

Tried again last night on a different mesh - the male open robe and put a new body in.
Did work on unfit and 50% but the morphs are mismatching even though the same amount of verticies was deleted from each.

[CmarNYC]

It's extremely difficult to make exactly the same edits on the base and all the morphs unless the edit is very simple. It's more than the number of vertices - it has to be the same vertices deleted and the faces have to match as well.

If you're working in CTU you can try my unfinished mesh tookit program, which will take the altered base mesh and the original morphs and generate new morphs which will work with the altered base, and optionally renumber all of them. Download the attached files, unzip both into the same folder, run the .exe, use Mesh Tools / Morph Mesh Updater. (The TSRW updater function doesn't work right.)

[whiterider]

TSRW updater - is that progress towards TSRW and non-TSRW meshes being interchangeable?

[Julie J]

Thanks - I'll give that a try :)

[CmarNYC]

TSRW updater - is that progress towards TSRW and non-TSRW meshes being interchangeable?

Unfortunately, no - it's to take a TSRW mesh in which the base has been altered and update the morph meshes to match.

But your idea is an excellent one that I hadn't thought of, and I'll add that to the functions to be added/perfected in this tool. Shouldn't be too hard to convert back and forth.

It's going to be a little while - I want to rewrite the whole thing in C# both for improved functionality and so it can run under Mono for Mac users, but will see how that goes.

[Julie J]

A big massive thank you for all your help - one of the robes has worked and ready to share

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af59/Juliemj39/Creations/JulieJ-NewMaleRobe1.jpg