Creating SGM (or whatever you want to call the morphs) (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

No, of course I can't teach you how to sculpt in Blender ... but I can give you a few tips you might not know yet. Even though this tutorial is about SGM, you can apply some of the tips and information to other creative work (such as creating/fine-tuning characters).

Since I'm not writing this tutorial all at once, I'm breaking it down into different blocks of information.

But before we get started, I would like to explain to you what SGM are and why I personally consider them important (see below, first block with a screenshot)

Holy crap... am I in snail land?
My next post (with a larger screenshot) isn't going through right now, so it'll be a little late. Sorry!

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

When DAZ " invented " big, larger, monstrous breasts for its female models, the creators - dazzled by the sheer magnificence of their creation - failed to notice that they were not only offering nude models, but also clothing for these models. Since then, many of their models have not only had to endure chronic back pain, but also have the constant need to tug at their clothes as soon as they are dressed.

Nerds and boobs… this could only go wrong [wink]

You probably know the effect of the going wild mammary glands guzzling 3D clothing that occurs in models with larger bust sizes. The most effective (and probably only) way to reduce or disguise this effect is SGM: Sub Garment Morphs. You may have followed my efforts and experiments with different approaches in various threads: whether weight maps, geografts, customized 3D clothing, or whatever: nothing works, nada, niente. So, once again:

The most effective (and probably only) way to reduce or disguise this effect is SGM: Sub Garment Morphs.

To illustrate what's causing the problems, I've taken a screenshot (see below). In short (well, maybe not so short), it's this:

The larger the breasts, the more they cover parts of the chest (in fact, I've even seen models whose lower breasts even penetrated (poke through) the ribcage). While this is common practice in the wild (at least the first part mentioned), it's a serious problem for 3D models. Since every 3D clothing for DAZ is always created and rigged for the base model (GF8 BASE, G9 BASE, etc.), these errors occur because none of the BASE models have monstrous busts.

Rigging means: so that the 3D clothing follows every movement of the model, the bones as well as the influence of the bones on the skin of the model are transferred to the garment with the help of the transfer tool… and this at the vertice level! This means: if the vertices of the source model are not nearly identical to those of the target model, shifts, distortions… and mammary glands going rogue are inevitable.

Take a look at the following screenshot: