Making a dress for Dawn

Making even the simplest garment for a 3D character can be a daunting task if you have never done it before. A whole book could be dedicated to that process, if we had to cover all the techniques in detail. On the other hand, we can cover the basics in a few pages, if we keep our target simple. The following tutorial is based on a very simple dress. Don't expect high fashion. We are going to keep things very, very simple so that we can see all the steps involved from zero to the finished product. After we are done with this chapter, if you find the matter interesting, you can look for more tutorials about modeling.

Let's begin.

Obviously, we need to have the base figure loaded in modo so that we can model a dress around it. modo does not read the Studio file format, but it can import many standard 3D file formats, such as OBJ. Unfortunately, Studio does not use the OBJ format for its figures as Poser does. A Poser character file, or CR2, is a file that refers to an...