Did you check and see if your neck has a problem?
I think I will try what Dr. Pixel said and see if that works for
the neck as well.
Bill

I had the same problem with the hands. Don't know what is causing it
for sure. I know that Xenos had talked about the black spot at the
bottom of the mesh.  Also, check the neck of your figure. My figure
has a pushed in spot at the base of the neck. (where the neck joins
the chest area) I can't tell from looking at your figure.
Bill

I have used Xenos magnets in Poser 4 without problem. Don't
know about Poser 5, (I have it but I like Poser 6 better)

With help from Warlokk and poser magnets, I made a Sim who is
smaller chested. She is about a 32a. I thought since she is in Body
Shop and in my download folder, she would appear in the game.
But she does not. I figure that I must make a skintone for her.
Is there a tutorial for making a skintone for something that has been
made in bodyshop? Right now, she only appears as a dress in the game.
I found a tutorial for making a skintone, but it only shows putting it on
the standard model in bodyshop.
Or is there another way to get her into the game other than doing a skintone
for her?  
Thanks,
Bill

Just wanted to let you know that I tried the reduction for the
girl mesh and it looked okay to me. Of course, if you looked at it,
I am sure you would find my mistakes.
I then tried to make a blouse for her and it came out okay except
for the black mark around the bottom of the blouse. I remember
Xenos talking about that a long time ago but I don't remember what
the resolution was about it. Also, at the base of the neck there is
a pushed in little area on the clothes. I guess she can be a nudist.
Anway, I feel like I did something right, so now I can concentrate
on making clothes for her.
Once again, thanks for all your help.
Bill

Thanks again,

1. I can forget that experiment then.

2. I was going to try it both ways. (down and up) I just don't
know what to pick in BodyShop to export to Saved Sims to
do it.

3. Will buy it once I do some tutorial reading.
Bill

Thanks for the info.
I only have Truespace (which I am not very good with) and Carrara
(I just got it from Daz and just starting to work with it)
Two little questions and I won't bother you anymore on this post.

1. When you do your project in Bodyshop, could you just delete the
alpha channel or the reflections to make it work in MeshTool?
Just about all the clothes have an alpha channel.

2. Not sure if this one is possible with the Poser magnets. I had thought
about using the magnets to maybe change a 34a to a 32a (increasing
the morph from "1" to "1.5") Not on the clothes but the actual girl.
But I am not sure what to even open in Bodyshop to do this or if it
is possible.

Thanks again for all your help on this subject. I will search for some
tutorials on Milkshape and maybe end up buying it since this seems to
be the choice for people working with Sims.

Bill

Thought I would post this before I throw my computer
and everything out the window.
Is there some clothes that just won't work with MeshTool. I
was reading over modthesims on the tutorial that some newer
clothes wouldn't work with MeshTool.
I did the Simpe thing. Then I viewed it in bodyshop and it
was still good. I exported the .obj per your instructions. It was
a body.obj. It was to be a dress scaled down to 32A-32.
I brought the body.obj into poser. Checked only the two boxes
as in Xenox tutorial. Applied the 34a body magnets and the "body
32 hips" Spawned the morph target. Deleted all the magnets.
Opened Joint Editor. Changed the two right hand Origin boxes to
zero. (don't know if this matters, but at the bottom of the joint
editor it has the xyz thing and it was showing zyx or something like
that. Whatever it was, it wasn't xyz or xzy.)  Anyway, I then saved
my obj with the laying on her back with the head facing me.
Then I did the meshtool thing and put it in my mesh file.

And if you will following the link, you will see what I got

I guess I could try a old dress that came with the original sims and
see if that works if you don't see what is wrong right off the bat.
This is my off day and I have spent most of it trying to get this to work.
Sorry to bother you again.

http://home.comcast.net/~wayneout/Image1.jpg

Bill

Thanks for the info.

I did a couple of tops and they worked great.
I tried a couple of dresses and when I loaded the final product
into bodyshop, they looked like a Andy Warhol painting. I will
have to retrace my steps and see what I did wrong.

When I use the rotate "y" at 180 degrees, she is on her side.

Thanks,
Bill
PS sorry about the tip jar being so small, just got back from vacation
a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks the magnets are working great in Poser.
I changed the order of the obj export to "xyz"
and the figure was lying on it's back when I imported
it into Poser. Funny thing was when I clicked on the
magnet preset, the magnets appeared above the
figure. (first, I increased the scale on the main camera)
And the figure didn't seem to change. However, I
did go ahead and spawn the morph and set it to "1"
and when I went back to bodyshop, it worked great.
(Never did understand magnets in Poser.) But there
is a lot I don't understand in Poser. I use a lot of PhilC's
inventions to help.

Thanks a lot,
Bill

Couple of stupid questions

I was working on a top for the 34A. There are two magnets. One
says 34A top and the other says Clothes 34A. Does it matter which
magnet you use?

I am still a little confused about exporting for Mesh Tool.
I know that the figure must be lying on its back. But is the
head pointing toward me or the other way?  

Thanks,
Bill

Wow!
I just noticed that you released the Poser Magnets. I have used
Poser since Poser4 first came out. Now I can use it to make the
clothes fit. I know I have the Mesh Tool somewhere on my computer.
Have to find it. (never was that good with Milkshape) and I will have
to remember the Brianna tut unless there is an easier way to get into
Mesh tool.
Thanks for this.
Bill
ps any plans for releasing the fashion model magnets?

Thanks for the info.
I couldn't find the file located at the first link. Searched all the
hacks. (didn't know that site existed, got great hacks and other stuff)

I downloaded the second one.

I did find a small tutorial over at Simpe site, but it works only once for
some reason. (after you put the object on a community lot, you cannot
do it on a second time)  I will try the second one. I just want to make
sure it is available at both residential and community.

Thanks,
Bill

If I have a certain item, say a sofa, and it is found in residential but
not in community. Is there a way to change it to a community lot?
I know I saw a tutorial on that someplace but I cannot find it anymore?
Thanks,
Bill

I enjoyed your tutorial.
I believe you have that great transparent (or parts of it) yellow
dress. I have tried every shade of grey that I can think of on the
alpha channel but none of mine come out that great. Mine don't
even come out that good. The best I have found so far was
102,102,102.  I use PSP7 and PSPX but I find myself using 7 more
because I have gotten so used to it.
Thanks,
Bill