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…and I don’t like it. It looks clumsy, the flow is bad, it’s too dense. But I guess it will do for now.

A brief gallery of the progress over the last two days. On the last picture I also adjusted the velcro straps to have longer ends.

I did some rebuilding in order to insert the side panels and the reenforcement strips around the grommets, I also added those and a lacing mockup.

The velcro straps are also 50% wider (I still have to redo those proper, these are also just mockups) and I added a small trim under the ankle padding.

That was a long break, I know, but I needed some rest.

And now for something completely different 🙂

This is a first draft of the design, I like what I’m seeing but I suspect that It isn’t going to stay as is.

Warning: Cats might have taken over.

A little thing I”ve been making for the region. Not quite finished yet.

I don’t think I can get the skirt weighting to blend better… I essentially have to choose between uncovering the legs even more in extreme poses or making the skirt center blend better, and I can’t have both. I’ll probably fiddle with it some more however.

Regardless, I got all the chest sizes ready and I tweaked the material a little more to get a cleaner shading. I also got the shirt sleeves rigged… it’s not 100% perfect but at least nothing is clipping out anymore. I also got the fitmesh settings for the butt.

I won’t do the belly fitmesh, sorry, it’s going into the belt territory and I don’t want this area to deform horribly.

So what is left… get some advice from friends, upload all the final meshs and setup lods. And write a couple of auto hide scripts for the body.

I can’t believe I spent yet another day on weighting the skirt part…

I ended up trashing the left/right leg blend I had so I could add an upper/lower leg blend on the dress hem to have it fold over the knees when sitting and kneeling. Because keeping the hem together was such a pain I ended up doing it mostly by the numbers. I think it’s “acceptable”.

I cleaned up some stray weighting and corrected weights on the vertical strip edges (again).

I also did a really quick test rig of the short sleeve variation. Acceptable too?

I hope so, I wasn’t planning on working today because my back hurts so much I suspect I caught some weird illness over the weekend.

But it’s 5AM and I’ve done some good progress.

The skirt is an absolute mess to rig and I don’t think I can just “stop” it from clipping…

It’s a dress, it’s gonna happen, and I am NOT making a dress with bento bones, no thank you.

Or rigged, since it’s SecondLife and we have to misuse technical terms 😛

It has almost been 3 days now, I get the feeling that this could possibly be my best rigging attempt. I trashed the lower body stuff again since I’m focusing on two bones at a time. I think I’ve done a competent job at the neck and shoulders at this point. It’s not perfect yet (can it ever be?) and I can probably improve it.

I’m thinking I might tackle the skirt at this point. I will probably “hard skin” the belt because I don’t like the idea of it deforming too much.