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Introduction

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You know what’s a batch file

and you know what’s an obj file

and you know obj file’s faces must be properly grouped to become poser/daz compatible clothes

... then read on ...

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There is now a User Interface for Daz Studio 1, 2, 3, 4 to simplify all this

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjobjgroupbyproximityui

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Use

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Example 1

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As an example you created a clothing item for Aiko3 and saved this as the obj file

mcjA3SpringDress4in.obj

in the folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ\Studio\content\Runtime\Geometries\mCasual\

you know you have Aiko3 and all her perfect groups in the obj file

blAiko3.obj

in the folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ\Studio\content\Runtime\Geometries\DAZPeople\

you now open notepad and write this:

you save this as a file named

GROUP_mcjA3SpringDress4Test.bat

in the same folder as

mcjObjGroupByProximity.exe

you run GROUP_mcjA3SpringDress4Test.bat

and a few seconds later it’s done, you now have the file

mcjA3SpringDress5.obj

in the folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ\Studio\content\Runtime\Geometries\mCasual\

it contains the same geometry as

mcjA3SpringDress4in.obj,

but the facets are grouped based on their proximity to Aiko3’s groups

note: in the image below, i used wordpad and "manually" ( search and replace )

assigned all the buttock-group faces to the hip group

because i wanted that dress's tight fit to remain,

at the price of having to create D-Form/magnets to fix poke-through

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Example 2

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Lets say you load a figure in Daz Studio, make sure it’s zeroed

You export it as an obj file using the Poser scale

The “write groups” “use existing groups” option must be turned On

On the other hand if the figure was distributed with an obj file in a Runtime/Geometries folder

it’s better to use this .obj

Or if it’s in obz format, you duplicate it, rename it to .zip, and unzip that file, the result is the obj file

We’ll call this the “reference object” or statue

( this can only be used as a reference you cant use it as base material nor distribute it )

Then you create your clothing around that “statue” in your modeling software

Now comes the task of grouping the facets in your obj, similarly to the way the reference figure has its facets grouped

Normally you’d spend an hour “manually” grouping facets, using the reference “statue” as a guide

but mcjObjGroupByProximity.exe can do the grouping for you

From your 3d modeling software, save your clothing as an obj without changing the scale

You could verify the scale is intact by re-importing the “statue” and your saved obj clothing item and see if they still fit

you write a Windows/DOS batch file using notepad

this batch file will Run mcjObjGroupByProximity.exe, and supply it with the path to

- the reference object ( MCJA )

- the clothing object ( MCJB )

- the desired output object ( MCJC )

this new obj file ( mcjSLWomanJumper.obj ) is now compatible with CR2s like the reference figure’s cr2 ( SL_Female )

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notes

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the hip/buttocks area is tricky

ideally the facets owned by the “hip” group should form a barrier between the lButtock and the rButtock groups

and the hip group should form a barrier between the buttock groups and the abdomen group

the hip group shape is like shorts

this matches with the way the Poser/Daz figure skeletons are built:

so it’s better to tweak your groupings to behave like that

in the image shown below, mcjObjGroupByProximity created a bridge between the two buttock groups

you would need to bring this .obj back in your modeling software and reassign this facet to the' hip' group

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License

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Copyright (c) <mCasual/Jacques>

November 21st 2014

( The following is meant to be an "MIT License" )

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obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation

files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without

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Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following

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