Creating Poser/Studio compatible shoes for Aiko3 using free tools by mCasual/Jacques notice: i am in not an employee of Poser nor Daz Studio which are both
trademarked names A copy of this tutorial (web page) and associated images can be found in the attachments section at the bottom o f this page. Load the AikoLE figure in Daz Studio ( DS )  In the parameters tab, do a Zero/Zero Figure pose 
In the Scene Tab, make Aiko invisible ( root node ) then make the Toes, Feet, Shins and Thighs visible  Do a File / Export / Wavefront Object (*.obj ) and export this as aiko3LELegs.obj using these export options  In Blender import aiko3LELegs.obj The model we produce must be partitioned the same way Aiko's legs are partitioned ( also called groups )  create your shoes  notice that it's the bending of Aiko's toes that will create the bending of the boots toes  select the right boot, go in edit mode, select the faces that should be owned by the rShin group, use the Mesh/Vertices/Separate/Selection operation to extract it repeat for rFoot, rToe, lShin, lFoot, lToe  Rename each mesh with the exact same names used in Aiko's mesh  Select the 6 meshes and do a File / Export / Wavefront(.obj) make sure the "objects as Obj Groups" checkbox is check-marked save this obj in Daz Studio or Poser's runtime folder on many PCs the runtime folder is C:\program files\daz\studio\content specifically, save it in Runtime\Geometries\Yourname\testBoots.obj  save your blender scene using a text editor like Wordpad, correct the names of the groups ( g ) in this case do a Find and Replace [Mesh.o21_rToe] by [rToe] Find and Replace [Mesh.o17_rShin] by [rShin] etc... for the 6 groups  Using Morph Manager 4 by Paul "Mr. X" Mason http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlutility.html open Aiko3LE's CR2 file, usually found in C:\Program Files\DAZ\Studio\content\Runtime\libraries\Character\DAZ Aiko 3 or any other Aiko Cr2, the smaller file the better, namely the Aiko Blank figure use Morph manager to delete all the Morph targets save this file in Daz Studio's content folder under Runtime/Libraries/Characters/Yourname/testBoots.cr2  open testBoots.cr2 using Wordpad or CR2 Editor 1.51 by John Stallings ( http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlutility.html ) search for the string figureResFile and replace those 2 lines with figureResFile :Runtime:Geometries:YourName:testBoots.obj
and it's done you can open the testBoots figure from your content/Figures/YourName librairy  Fixing problems with the High Heels Since the Aiko figure does not include heels, the rigging needs to be adjusted for instance, using Aiko's rig, the heel would bend when Aiko's toes bend we fix this by changing the Exclusion zone of the rToe and the lToe joints  open testBoots.cr2 using CR2 Editor 1.51 by John Stallings ( http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlutility.html ) go into the second "actor rToe" section go in the jointX jointx section double-left-click on the "angles" item to enter edit mode change the first angle from -26 to -67 (degrees) this works for 5 inch heels, a value of -80 would allow longer heels note: these settings seem to work well with high heels angles -67.5 -158.0 -192.0 49.5  The other problem with Aiko's rig is that the falloff zone does not encompass the heel so we need to make the zone taller 
still in the CR2 editor go down to the 2nd occurrence of rFoot go in the channels section go in the jointX jointx section under "SphereMatsRaw" change the 2nd line that reads 0 0.0166003 0 0 to 0 0.05 0 0 the inner falloff zone was 1.66% tall, it's now 5% tall repeat for the other foot   |
