Soft Features

The Soft Features method is used for areas that are flexible, but which you want to maintain the overall shape as it moves more closely to fit the figure. Examples of soft features are pockets, collars, seam lines, hem lines, folds, wrinkles, and so on.

When you switch to the Soft Features method, you’ll see vertices that are variously colored. Poser takes a “best guess” at the areas where the Soft Features method will be applied by analyzing charges in the polygonal density and changes in the surface normals.

Soft Features options.

• Auto-Generate Weight Map: Use the Auto-Generate Weight Map controls as follows to adjust the Soft Features map
  • Threshold: Poser initially generates a Soft Features map based on the default threshold setting of 20. Increase the threshold to add more vertices to the Soft Features vertex map.
  • Generate: After you adjust the threshold setting, click the Generate button to update the Soft Features vertex map based on the new threshold value. Auto-generating a Soft Features vertex map.
• Paintbrush: Click the Paintbrush icon to enable the vertex painting tools. When painting a Soft Features vertex map, focus on areas where you want the shape to be retained as the clothing is fit to the figure. The following figure shows additional Soft Feature method added to the collar, and the result after the Fit is run.

If you want to assign specific areas of the clothing to Soft Features, it will be much easier to do if your clothing object has different material zones in it. For example, if a shirt has separate collar and cuff materials, it will be easy to select them by material and add all vertices in those materials to the Soft Features method.

To do this, click the Paintbrush to open the Vertex Weights palette. Enable the Restrict To option, and then choose Materials > followed by the material name you want to assign to the Soft Features method.

After that you can either use the paintbrush to Add weight to the vertices in that group, or click the Set All button to ensure that all vertices in that selected material are set to 1.

You can set all vertices in a selected material to 1 to add them to the Soft Features group.

Repeat this for other material zones that you want to assign.

Soft Features strength added to the shirt collar.