Wardrobe Wizard 2.0 Help Page

Q #1 : It simply does not work.
A: My email in box is full of posts where I can easily see that the user has given only the briefest of cursory glances to the instructions. It is human nature to want to "get at it". I know I've been guilty of it too. If after an hour of getting frustrated and you are about to throw it at the wall you may want to consider spending just a few minutes reading the instructions. If you have not yet found the "Help" button then the info is also available on line at http://www.philc.net/WW2_help.php. Plus there is now an on screen video over view available at http://www.philc.net/WW2_plugin_overview/WW2_plugin_overview.php.

To be fair my in box is also full of a similar number of subsequent emails saying "Oh now that I've read the instructions it all makes sense". :)

Q #5 : I'm on a Mac and I do not understand how to install the unlock file (serial.dat).
A: This screen grab should help.

Q #9 : I run out of memory when I try and analyze all of V4's morphs. If I do them in batches I am then confused as to which ones I need for my custom figure.
A: Load the figure.
Inject the custom figure pose or do whatever you need to do to get the custom figure body shape.
Click Utilities > Morphs > Dials to single Morph, you'll be prompted to input a name for the morph.
Click Back > Back > Analyze Full Body Morphs
Select your single named morph from the list when it is presented to you. Do not select them all, just select the one you named.

It should process very quickly.

Now when you convert clothing and include the FBM option you can select your named morph to be added into the clothing. You wont need to select a bunch of morphs with "strange" names, just the single one with the name you chose.

Conform that clothing to your custom figure.
Select the clothing's BODY
Set the named FBM dial to 1.000 and it will fit the custom figure.

A variation on this would be to just use the Create MOR from Figure button. The difference being that this would not create a named Full Body Morph dial in the figure. You may already have one, or not need one because you are applying the character morph from a pose. See this on screen video.

Q #10 : Wardrobe Wizard 2 starts to analyze the clothing but then says that it can not find the OBJ file.
A: Wardrobe Wizard 2 can find paths in the CR2 file when the "figureResFile" is given in either of these two these formats:-

• Relative Path
  Runtime:Geometries:Folder:SubFolder:filename.obj
  Runtime:libraries:character:Folder:SubFolder:filename.obj
• Absolute Path
  C:\Documents and Settings:Administrator:My Documents:My Poser Files:Runtime:Geometries:Folder:SubFolder:filename.obj

Open the CR2 file in a text editor to find the figureResFile line. It is usually within the first ten lines of the file.

Either will work but if the path is relative check to ensure that the CR2 file is within that same Runtime. If the path is absolute check that the file is actually where it is supposed to be.

Q #11: After selecting a clothing item to convert, Poser locks up.
A: Unfortunately I have no control over Poser's window management. The Wardrobe Wizard window is still there but behind the Poser preview window. If you can see any part of it click on it to bring it to the front and you'll be able to continue. I explain this in the video overview where I state that before starting Wardrobe Wizard you should first minimize the Poser preview window by clicking its sizing widget.

Q #12: I've just started to use Wardrobe Wizard but I'm getting an error message:- "setting.txt not found restoring defaults." I've looked for settings.txt but can not find it.
A: Wardrobe Wizard stores your setting and uses them as the starting point the next time you use the application. If this is the first time you are using Wardrobe Wizard there will be no previous settings so the script will use its default settings. The message is not an error, it is just informing you of this.

Q #13: I'm having difficulty with the M4 morphs.

A: The M4 Morph ++ package from DAZ contains a very large number of morphs which are "injected" into the figure by clicking on thumbnails from the Pose library. The trouble is that a number of them are not actually morphs. All those that are shown in the M4 Body's "Morphforms" are either just setting body part scaling or posing or both. Consider the LegLength dial. If you load the basic M4 figure into the scene and iterate through his body parts you will see that a number of the expected parameter dials are apparently missing. Instead of the usual four scale dials you just get one. I can offer no explanation why DAZ has chosen to restrict the user in this way. With the purchase and subsequent morph injection you will then find (for this example) a new dial labeled "LegLength". This is not a morph, nor is it in fact a scale dial, it is just a dial that remotely controls the hidden scale dials in the base figure. If the "standard" dials had been visible you would have been able to scale the legs and then subsequently been able to copy that scaling to the clothing. Whilst the "LegLength" dial does offer the convenience of a single dial it now means that the user has no way of knowing what scale should be applied to the clothing. If a morph was to be built into the clothing to match the longer legs it would only fit at the zero pose. Conforming clothing works by applying like to like, you run into problems if the body is being shaped by scaling parameters but the clothing is being shaped using morph dials. The solution is two fold:- 1) I have now built in matching scaling dials into the donor CR2 files. It is simply ERC code that has been around since Poser's very early days. 2) I have unhidden all the scale dials in the donor CR2 files. If you find that you need to unhide (or hide) any dials in any other figures you are welcome to download this free Python script DialViz.zip Conclusion If the dial is in the Morphforms section it is not a morph, do not try and analyze it, do not add it to the clothing. Either copy the "Size" dial value to the corresponding "Size" dial in the clothing if available, or use the script to unhide the standard scaling dials and use those to set the figure's scale rather than the "Size" dial. You can then use the Wardrobe Wizard's copy scale tools to make the clothing to match. Anything in the Morphs|Shapes and INJection Channels should be analyzed using the "Analyze Full Body Morphs" button. I've checked a number of these morphs but not all so I'll add the caveat that if something is a genuine morph (not scaling) but is not a full body morph you'll need to use the supplemental tools found by clicking Utilities > Morphs.