Post by orangemittens on Dec 11, 2014 17:59:58 GMT -5
After discussion in another thread the team has looked a little more at Studio's ability make edited EA clothing items or custom clothes not based on a previously existing EA garment. Some quick tests demonstrated that Studio is able to manage this while retaining slider functionality as long as the method used insures a second UV is present and made correctly. This is an EA top that I edited by moving existing vertices and extruding new ones:
It works with no problem regardless of what weight setting the slider is on.
After that I tried making a custom mesh that wasn't based on an EA garment. (pardon the poor recolor job I did on this one...my texture is off the mesh and on the skin in some places) It works with the sliders also:
Both of these experiments take advantage of EA's second UV and retain it. The second uses a duplication method that works with Blender and, I believe, will also work with Maya or 3ds Max although that remains to be tested by someone with one of those editors. Older and less comprehensive 3D editors like Milkshape aren't going to be able to use that method although I think editing an existing EA mesh is within their capability.
The team is going to need a day or two to get this ready for posting but there will be a Preview version out this weekend that allows cloning of all CAS items. Although we're going to be constrained by the requirements of the second UV I think there is still a lot of potential for people to make some great stuff. 
I'm really excited about this step forward and I'm hoping there are some creators here willing to beta test it.
Could you please make a tutorial to explain how to do it? I've been working on a jacket with a new collar mesh but it goes crazy once in game. :/