Creating a Costume out of Cloth

The Garment Maker and Cloth modifiers work together to create clothing for your characters, human or not human.

In this tutorial, you will remain in the human realm, and create the clothing for a fashion model. Aside from her shoes, which are already supplied, the model wears two outer garments:

A pullover made of a clinging stretch fabric
A skirt made of a loose and flowing fabric, with pleats

With Garment Maker, you specify the construction of clothing, based on pattern shapes. The Cloth modifier then fits those clothes to the character who wears them; later, Cloth also generates realistic animation for the clothing.

Skill level: Intermediate

Time to complete: 2 1/2 hours

Preparation for This Tutorial

If you have not already downloaded the tutorial files (MAX scenes and other assets), download them now and unzip them into a project folder called \Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 tutorials. See Where to Find Tutorial Files.
On the Quick Access toolbar, click (Project Folder) and set your current project to Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 Tutorials.

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