Adding Conforming Clothing: Manual Conforming

You can use the Figure > Conform To command to manually conform clothing to any figure in your scene. The process is as follows:

Select the figure you wish to clothe.
Select a conforming clothing item from the desired Figures or Props category. Clothing is often named for the figure that it is designed to fit (for example, Alyson Pants).
If your clothing is in the Figures category, click the Create New Figure button at the bottom of the Library palette. If the item is in the Props category, click the Apply Library Preset button. The clothing appears to the scene in its default position and pose. Alternatively, you can drag and drop from the Library to the Document.
When added to the scene, conforming clothing appears in the Select Figure menu pull-down menu (described in ) Select Figure/Current Actor Menus. Verify that the clothing item that you want to conform is currently selected.
Choose Figure > Conform To. The Conform To dialog appears, listing all of the figures in your scene. If the clothing is already conformed, it displays the name of the figure that it is conformed to.

The Conform To dialog allows you to select the character that will wear the clothing.

Some tight-fitting conforming clothing may not completely cover the base figure’s skin, particularly when the figure is animated. You might notice the base figure poking through areas of the conforming clothing. There are two ways to correct this problem. The first method is to hide the body part of the figure that is poking through by setting the body part as invisible (see Body Part Actor Properties). The second method of correction is to use the Morph Brush to raise the clothing over the hole, or lower the body part underneath the clothing (see Creating Morphs with the Morphing Tool).

Select the figure you wish to conform the clothing to in the dialog that appears. Click OK when finished. The clothing conforms to the figure.
Apply a pose to the figure, and the conformed clothing should automatically snap to the new position.

If the clothing item that you added does not appear in the Select Figure menu, check inside the Current Actor > Props menu, because you may have added a dynamic clothing item instead. For further information on using Dynamic clothing, see The Cloth Room.

You can also use conforming clothing without a figure. Conforming clothing is treated like any other Poser figure and can be added to the Poser workspace and posed/animated just like any other Poser figure.