{"id":835,"date":"2008-01-30T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=835"},"modified":"2008-01-30T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:02:00","slug":"will-finally-has-an-appropriate-digital-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/01\/30\/will-finally-has-an-appropriate-digital-wardrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Will finally has an appropriate digital wardrobe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying for years to dress my representations of Will appropriately. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ljcut\">When I worked with my 1:6 plastic versions, his broad chest prevented me from putting him in women&#8217;s skimpy tops, and his hips were too wide for most skirts, even though I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/56681.html\">body-modded<\/a> him several times. My 1:3 version&#8217;s clothes are prohibitively expensive, and he&#8217;s a non-standard size of doll [scrawny, 80 cm], so I&#8217;m just making due with large, loose, flowy blouses and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/159303.html\">skirts for smaller female dolls.<\/a> Any early digital versions of Will, such as pixel doll versions or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/62291.html\">Meez avatars,<\/a> failed because, for some reason, there were no options to dress your male avs in corsets and microminiskirts. &gt;:<\/p>\n<p>My first version of Will in Daz looked way too much like a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/172942.html\">boringly dressed<\/a> man&#8230;until I discovered CrossDresser, that is. While beneficial for certain items, CrossDresser doesn&#8217;t work very well at flattening the chest area of tops designed for curvaceous women. Also CrossDresser doesn&#8217;t include morphs [body shaping] in the clothes, so I was left with converted dresses that had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/180626.html\">saggy cleavage<\/a> and which were too wide for my skeletal Will.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, then I tried moving Will from a Michael 3 base to a Victoria 3 base so he&#8217;d fit in the dresses and heels better.&nbsp; As a result, he fit into all the bottoms okay, but his upper body was a disaster. Apparently you can either have an <strong>emaciated<\/strong> female V3 or a non-emaciated <strong>male<\/strong> V3, but you can&#8217;t have a convincing emaciated male V3 because the breast area starts puckering inward. [See the first panel <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/209402.html\">here<\/a> where Will is wearing a second-skin outfit that is essentially &#8220;painted&#8221; onto his body.] Even though I now have a more sophisticated clothing converter than CrossDresser [Wardrobe Wizard 2], converted dresses still imploded in the chest area if I wanted to fit them to my emaciated and male V3 based character. Arrrrrrgh!<\/p>\n<p>Because I liked Will&#8217;s head as developed on a V3 base, I didn&#8217;t want to recreate him YET AGAIN on a male model. So, recently, I just did a head swap where I put his V3 head on the body of yet another male figure, not Michael 3, but David. While Michael 3 is blocky and stupid-looking, David, though more petite, has a smoother, more realistic shape that responds to deformation better. Plus he doesn&#8217;t have any chest protuberances to contend with, so I was able to create a long, scrawny, body with a sunken chest and no squinching around the [non-existent] boobs. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>After creating the latest version of Will out of a V3\/David hybrid, I worked hard last night and the night before running clothes through Wardrobe Wizard 2 and fitting them to Will. I crunched just about everything in my runtimes that he could possibly be interested in, then went out and downloaded at least 20 free pieces of clothing, which I converted just for him. Just as I have bags of 1:6 clothing sorted by Short Skirts, Corsets, Scanties, Pleather, Jeans, etc., so I now have folders of converted digital clothing, all for Will, with names like Corsets, DressesandSkirts, Pants, Tops, etc. And they all fit, and there&#8217;s no squinching at the chest, and he finally looks like an androgynous guy wearing women&#8217;s clothing, rather than a non-androgynous guy wearing plate armor developed for a woman. Jubilation! Exultation! Exhilaration! Defenestration! :p I shold have pictures tonight; I know all 1.5 of you are waiting on the edge of your seats.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve run almost everything I have for Will through the wringer so that it actually fits him, I realize a few things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.) Goddamn &#8212; this is exactly what I have wanted to do for years: convert one fig&#8217;s clothing to another so that I can make truly atrocious and fashionless outfits without being hindered by the outfit&#8217;s original designs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.) Will needs more clothes&#8230;and more make-up. This is a guy who probably beats the movie version of Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth for frequency of wardrobe and facepaint changes. I need to have at least 3 times as many clothing options and makeup options as I think I will use.<\/p>\n<p>3.) I just realized that I filmed two non-consecutive eps of LHF already in which Will was wearing the same makeup twice. This is an inexcusable lapse that I must correct by changing his makeup and redoing the second ep.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying for years to dress my representations of Will appropriately. When I worked with my 1:6 plastic versions, his broad chest prevented me from putting him in women&#8217;s skimpy tops, and his hips were too wide for most skirts, even though I body-modded him several times. My 1:3 version&#8217;s clothes are prohibitively expensive,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/01\/30\/will-finally-has-an-appropriate-digital-wardrobe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will finally has an appropriate digital wardrobe.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}