Adding Accessories Part 2- Adding Clothes

Ah! My dearest Gemma! Posing with Meshed clothing a guessing game that's got you down? Well fear not! For Sunny is here to show you how to get those clothes in Blender and onto your rig for posing your convenience!

You read the first one right? You need to remember how to do that. However, I think we're going to start by getting rid of the hair on our rig. Dammit! Harriet's hair is forever in my way for posing! Especially if I'm going to have someone's hand on her face.

To start with, open the rig whose hair is rather hair-raising to you. A warning! If you delete her hair you cannot put in other hair. She will continue bald until you close and reopen her.
First of all, we're going to look over in the tree menu on the right. There you go. In the box. There are a lot of branches on our tree but we're mainly concerned with the part of the tree titled afrig. Immediately to the left of that word you should see a little plus or minus sign in a circle. It needs to be on a plus sign. Once that branch expands scroll down until you see afhair.

Once you've come across afhair right click on it and this menu will pop up. Select delete.

Ack! She's bald! But yay! Now we can pose and see things her hair otherwise covered. A warning though! Remember that sims can have both very wide and very narrow heads. Harriets headsize is average, but not everyone plays with average headsized sims.

But now, don't we need Kaity's dress on this sim so we can make sure Fred's hands don't clip through Harriets dress in game? Well, yeah! So go click on Load CAS.

Ah Ha! Looks familiar doesn't it? Make sure the article of clothing you want your rig to wear is already in package form and somewhere you can find it. Navigate to it and select it (#1) and then select Import Sims3 Prop.

Yay! The dress is on our rig. How nice. But! Just as in the previous tutorial our rig is now in Object Mode and the joints are orange. Never fear! The solution is simple! Right click on any joint on your rig.

And we're back in pose mode. yay!

Now, I want to show you something that will have no bearing on anything whatsoever. When you get close up to your rig you will notice either black or white spots on your rig. THIS IS NORMAL. THIS IS OK. Really. Don't panic. I will admit that there were times when I'd delete the dress so the white spots would disappear so I could check a joint's rotation. That is easy. Note up under afrig in the tree menu there is a lovely string of numbers? That's the dress. Just as you did with the hair, right click and delete, and it's gone. Putting the dress back on is as simple as following the above steps and doesn't mess one whit with your pose.

So now you know how to add in custom outfits so you can pose around them, go grab that huge puffy wedding dress and make poses for it! Have fun!