That Little Dress

By KTdid (C) 2016

Thanks you for purchasing That Little Dress. Please look for more of my creations soon on Renderotica.com!

http://www.renderotica.com/content-artists/KTdid/1055

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All items in this product, unless noted, was created by me using a Macintosh Pro (5,1) with OS X 10.10 with Hexagon 2+, DAZStudio 4.9+ and Photoshop CS5.x

TERMS OF USE: (This is not the full terms of use but read this because most people don't know this.) You have purchased the right to use this software. You do not own it and there for you cannot distribute it whole or in part in anyway. (BTW, this is true for all software so don't sweat it) You can use this for personal or commercial renders. (I'd appreciate an acknowledgement :-)

Developed by KTdid 
E-mail: KTdid1963@gmail.com

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System Compatibility - Apple OS X
	Has not been tested on Windows or Linux OS by KTdid

Software Compatibility -  DAZStudio 4.9+

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This product is a form fitting clothing for the Genesis 3 Female (G3F) which comes free with DAZStudio. This package also comes with a tiny bonus Prop, a Hanger.

You must have an Un-Archive utility to expand a zipped file. Most modern computers already have it installed by default.

Highly recommend that 3feetwolf's G3F Gens be used but it is not necessary.

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Description
This item started it's life as an undershirt for men but was being created to be worn by female figures. Of course this has a certain appeal for men but during construction, the shirt started to look more and more like a mini dress. All I needed to do was cinch in the waist. But a huge problem then came up. How many "Mini" type dresses are out there in the DAZ world? Ten? Twenty? A hundred? The bottom line was that if I was going to make a mini dress, it had to be somehow unique.

What I ended up with is That Little Dress. At first glance, it looks like any other dress. Second glance, it has morphs. A few unusual ones but "so what?" would be likely your answer. The biggest thing isn't the morphs or the many shading domains. It is the extra rigging that is built in this dress. It won't show up on the file list and it won't be showing up like a glowing light when you load That Little Dress, so read the Product Usage section below and look at the cheat sheet on how to easily grab the rigging.

What does this all mean? On an ordinary dress, if your figure is doing a hand stand or perhaps a pirouette, the dress will stick to where it supposed to be according to the "bone" or rigging it got from it's host figure. With That Little Dress, you can move the dress the way YOU want it. What happens to a dress when doing a hand stand? Doesn't gravity take over? That Little Dress can conform to gravity!

BONUS! If you didn't notice, there is a "On the Hanger" morph. I've looked on the 'net and couldn't find a simple hanger, so I made one. It's included and now, you can hang That Little Dress on it's own hanger!

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Installation Instructions
1. Locate the downloaded zip file.
2. You can either un-zip the file there or move it to a more convenient location.
3. Make sure you have the folder you use for DAZStudio opened as well as the folder with the now unzipped files.
4. Both folders should have a data folder inside. This will let you know that you are on the right track. From the unzipped folder, you need to place the corresponding files to the DAZStudio side.
	4.1. - If you are a PC user, you may see an unusual folder called "_MACOSX." You can disregard this folder and toss into the waste bin. Macintosh users should not see this folder. If you do, toss it. Your Macintosh will make another.
	4.2 - If you see .DS_Store files, you can toss those too. These are tiny database files that try to keep everything straight in Mac OS X. Windows has them too and Macintoshes can see them. When OS X tries to create the .DS_Store files and it cannot because it is on a FAT32 disk, then it will create "_MACOSX" folder.
5. After moving the files in their correct places, you are all done.
6. Launch DAZStudio and That Little Dress should be in People/Genesis 3 Female/Clothing/KTdid/ directory and the Hanger will be in the Props/KTdid/Plastic Hanger directory. If you already had DAZStudio running, just right click on the top most line in the "Content Library" tab and select "Refresh." That Little Dress and the Hanger should show up in the above directories.

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Product Usage
(The following assumes that you know the basics of DAZStudio 4.9+)

If you feel that you are a Power User of DAZStudio, you may want to skip a lot of this but keep in mind, this may be something you have never seen before. I strongly suggest to you to look at the Tutorial PDF file that came with this product. You may already know a lot of the information contained but you may pick up something you never knew. At the very least, please read the tutorial and what is below. It may save you some headaches in posing That Little Dress.

• Load a G3F based figure
• Have the figure selected and load That Little Dress
• All the Materials are in Iray format.
• You also have four more choices in the color of That Little Dress. To change colors, have That Little Dress selected and double click on a color from "That Little Dress Materials" folder and yes, Tawny is a color.

••NOTE••
Since the materials of That Little Dress are all in Iray format, the icon for the dress color and what you see on screen may be drastically different. The icons where made by rendering That Little Dress, hence, you should get what the icon looks like when you render.

• There are several shading domains and you can change the color at will. The step pattern is intentional and is made by taking polygons from the modeling program and making them "SubD" in DAZStudio. Something I noticed early in making meshes for DAZ. If you do not like the the step pattern, change the resolution of the dress to "Base" and that step pattern will almost disappear.
• Please look at the cheat sheet for the locations of the "bones" or rigging on the dress.
• After getting the look of That Little Dress the way you want it, pose your figure in your scene.
• AFTER getting everything your figure set in position in your scene, do a tiny render from the camera angle you will be using on That Little Dress. You will be looking for poke throughs that do not show up in the View Port.
• Make adjustments with morphs and the extra rigging. Remember that having extra rigging mean that the normal rigging has less control. Now you have the control.
• If you see poke throughs, adjust accordingly and do another tiny render until you are satisfied.
• When you are satisfied, then do your final render.

••NOTE••
All extra rigging (bones) and morphs have limits placed on them. There is no particular reason to place limits except to make sure that the morphs and rigging stay reasonable in the scene. There are no rules on turning off the limits on any of the morphs and rigging. All the promotional images were made with the limits on. It's up to you to keep them on or turn them off.

••NOTE••
The zero spot for That Little Dress is -3.610982, 22.06262, 3.364305 with the following rotations: X= -3.573351, Y= -0.578491, X= -1.257240. Yes, I could have made all of those numbers zero but then it would be off from the universal zero point in the scene. I kept the hanger at the universal zero point for it, so future clothing can easily be fitted to the hanger. Why do you need to know this? The morph "On the Hanger" must start from this point with the That Little Dress not fitted or parented to any figure. After the morph is set to 100%, then parent it to the hanger. 

• With all these choices you have the opportunity to get the perfect pose for your figure as well as That Little Dress she has on!

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Textures
There are no textures with this product.

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Files Included in the Product (and where they should go):

KTdids That Little Dress Documentation/
	KTdids That Little Dress Read Me.rtf
	KTdids That Little Dress Shading Domains.jpg
	KTdids That Little Dress' Rigging.jpg
	Promotional-Icon-Enlarged-and-Slowed.gif
	That Little Dress.duf.png  \\\ Just in case you need to get the icon back

My Library/
	Data/KTdid/
		Plastic Hangers/
			Hanger.dsf
			UV Sets/KTdid/Base/
				default.dsf

		That Little Dress/That Little Dress v2.11/
			That Little Dress_4010.dsf
			Morphs/Ken T/Base/
				Center Pull.dsf
				Expand Breast Area.dsf
				Expand Leftside.dsf
				Expand Right Side.dsf
				FBMExpandAll.dsf
				FID_Genesis3Female.dsf
				Lengthen Just a Little.dsf
				On the Hanger.dsf
				Show Left Breast.dsf
				Show Right Breast.dsf
				Wearing Undies.dsf
			UV Sets/Ken T/Base/
				default.dsf

	People/Genesis 3 Female/Clothing/KTdid/That Little Dress/
		That Little Dress.duf
		That Little Dress.duf.png
			That Little Dress Materials/
				Little Black Dress.duf
				Little Black Dress.duf.png
				Little Forrest Dress.duf
				Little Forrest Dress.duf.png
				Little Silky Shiny Red Dress.duf
				Little Silky Shiny Red Dress.duf.png
				Little Silky Sky Dress.duf
				Little Silky Sky Dress.duf.png
				Little Tawny Dress.duf
				Little Tawny Dress.duf.png
				Reset That Little Dress.duf
				Reset That Little Dress.duf.png

	Props/KTdid/Plastic Hanger
		Plastic Hanger.duf
		Plastic Hanger.duf.png

	Runtime/
		Support/KTdid/
			Plastic Hanger/
				Plastic_Hanger.dsa
				Plastic_Hanger.dsx
			That Little Dress/
				KTdids That Little Dress Rigging.jpg
				KTdids That Little Dress Shading Domains.jpg
				KTdids_That_Little_Dress_KTdid1963_That_Little_Dress.dsa
				KTdids_That_Little_Dress_KTdid1963_That_Little_Dress.dsx
				KTdids_That_Little_Dress_KTdid1963_That_Little_Dress.jpg

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Little Dress, Mini Dress, Little Black Dress, LBD, rigged, boned

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Copyright (c) 2016 KTdid. All rights reserved. Not intended for redistribution.