New Texture Challenge 1 - Morphing Fantasy Dress

[Agent0013]

Welcome to the new Texture Challenges here at PFDLives.

These challenges will be set up in the following manner:

The first New Texture Challenge will be for the Morphing Fantasy Dress available at DAZ3D.
Morphing Fantasy Dress V4



There are many figures this product has been fitted to over the years, but nearly all of them share the same template. I will provide a link to SnowSultan's site, where you can find his MFD Seam Guide Templates and download them.

Here is the link: https://snowsultan.artstation.com/pages/seamguides

When you follow this link and get to SnowSultan's site, click the button labeled       
"Google Drive Seam Guides".       

Next scroll down the page that appears to find these MFD Seam Guide Templates:
mega_mfdseam.gif
stephmfd_seams.gif

Click on them to download them.

Members wishing to learn are encouraged to ask for help in the form of instructions or coaching. Members providing help may do so in any available manner; either tutorials in document form or video form, or suggestions in comments posted in this thread. Links to tutorials are welcome also.

I am providing a link to Chohole's 2014 Tutorial in which she used the Morphing Fantasy Dress to demonstrate the method she used. Its premises can be adapted to be used in many image editing programs, and it is quite easy to follow.

Here is the link to that tutorial: WEB ARCHIVES FOR CHOLOE


Now let's get to it and have fun learning and teaching texture making!


Note:
I am not sharing any of the MFD products here. The original template for the product, according to several people I have asked, may be shared; however to be safe, please ask about the policy concerning this in a DAZ Help Ticket at:
https://www.daz3d.com/
We do not wish to share anything we do not have the right to share.

[Llola Lane]

Sounds great... I'm gonna try Agent... I still have partially done textures that I never finished.  I may have to start over... they are pretty bad and I know sooooooooo much more now ;) lol

[sanbie]

Don't have the dresss...

[Llola Lane]

Don't have the dresss...

bummer.. it's pretty cheap... sometimes you can get it for 99cents!  lol  Almost all the female characters wear it.

[Llola Lane]

https://www.daz3d.com/morphing-fantasy-dress-for-genesis-2-females
sale 1.99... the others are on sale too.

[Contajen]

Couldn't use the above link to cho's tut, but found one that works on the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20160310053222/http://chohole.ovbi.org/texture_tutorial.htm
Is this MFD for V4 or Genesis?

[sanbie]

You need glasses girl...that's not 1.99...it's 17.95...which means about 25.00 Australian! Actually 26.35  plus paypal fees!
 

[DanaTA]

You need glasses girl...that's not 1.99...it's 17.95...which means about 25.00 Australian! Actually 26.35  plus paypal fees!
 

It's a DAZ+ item, as was the original one for V4 (well, it was called the Platinum Club back then), and it is at $1.99.  But if you're not in the club...sorry.  It isn't as good as it used to be, but I still find some good deals through the club.  I don't spend a lot lately.  Some months I just use the $6 DAZ+ coupon.  I rarely use the $6 PA coupon, can't afford it.


Dana

[sanbie]

I know the feeling Dana...But as luck would have it I must of already already purchased it because it was in my library list as purchased...for V4...

[DanaTA]

I know the feeling Dana...But as luck would have it I must of already already purchased it because it was in my library list as purchased...for V4...

That's good!  As I understand it, the UV for each version of that dress is compatible.  So textures made for the V4 version will work for the Genesis and Genesis2 versions.  Unless they changed that somehow.  That will make textures three times as useful!  :)


Dana