FAQ : What is Marvelous Designer?

#1

Marvelous Designer provides the best way for CG artists to efficiently create beautiful 3D clothing.
With a pattern-based approach to modeling, users are able to easily create and simulate quality garments that are compatible with your existing software products.

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#2

WHERE CAN MARVELOUS DESIGNER BE USEFUL?

Marvelous Designer has a variety of applications in the world of 3D clothing design.
It is most useful in situations where garment detail and quality are paramount.
The more complex the design, the more time you are able to save using Marvelous Designer.
Due to OBJ compatibility, users can work with Marvelous Designer in conjunction with a variety of 3D software programs.

#3

BENEFITS OF USING MARVELOUS DESIGNER?

(1) Save significant amounts of time creating 3D clothing with a pattern based approach
(2) Replicate exquisite details including tucks, shirring, pleats, gathering, and iron lines
(3) Create fast and accurate draping simulations
(4) Conveniently import/export data between various existing 3D software
(5) Compile a data library of your work that you can reuse

#4

[b]COMPUTER SPECS

[/b]WINDOWS
Officially Supported OS
Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, Windows 10
*Marvelous Designer runs on the 32bit OS system, but we recommend 64bit since there were errors reported due to the slowness and memory usage limit on 32bit OS.

RECOMMENDED
CPU: Intel Processor Corei7 3.0Ghz or higher
RAM: 16GB or higher
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 and above
Hard Drive: 20+ GB disk space available for caching and temporary files; SSD preferable
Pointing Device: Three-button mouse

MINIMUM
OS: Windows 7
CPU: Intel Processor, Corei5 2.4 GHz
RAM: 8GB
4GB can run Marvelous Designer, but errors are highly likely when processing heavier files
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Hard Drive: 10+ GB disk space available for full content installation
Pointing Device: Three-button mouse

MAC
Officially Supported OS
Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, macOS Sierra

RECOMMENDED
Models: 2016 MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac i7 3.0 GHz and above
RAM: 16GB
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 M395X (4GB RAM) and above
(graphic cards with G3D Mark above 5000)
latest drivers and at least 2GB of graphics memory
Hard Drive: 20+ GB disk space available for caching and temporary files; SSD preferable
Pointing Device: Three-button mouse

MINIMUM
OS: Mac OS X Mountain Lion
RAM: 8GB
GPU: Intel graphic card 4000
Pointing Device: Three-button mouse

Officially Supported Models
MacBook Pro 13" 2011 and later
MacBook Pro 15", and 17" 2011 and later
iMac 2011 and later
Mac Pro 2012 and later

#5

[b]DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSONAL AND ENTERPRISE LICENSE

[/b]There is no difference between Personal and Enterprise License other than it is for personal use or use in companies. Like other software, we frequently check the use of Personal License in companies, which will be in breach of the License Agreement. If you are a freelancer, you are eligable for the use of Personal License, however if you are to continue the use of Marvelous Designer in Enterprise conditions, you will have to purchase an Enterprise License.

#6

[b]LEARN

WHAT IS PATTERN-BASED GARMENT DESIGN ?
[/b]Pattern-based garment design uses separate template pieces that are “sewn together” to create a finished garment. This is the standard way clothing is made in the fashion industry and is very applicable to virtual garment design. Rather than sculpting clothing on 3D avatars, pattern-based garments are constructed separately and are then draped onto the 3D avatar, making UV-unwrapping work unnecessary. This process allows for realistic simulation as well as a flexible data archive of garment work that can be reformed or reused for future designs and/or avatars.

IS IT DIFFICULT AND TIME CONSUMING TO LEARN MARVELOUS DESIGNER?
No, it is not difficult to learn the basics of Marvelous Designer or to further improve your design skills. In fact most of our users are self-taught and learn from our tutorial videos and examples produced by the MD community. Just follow our tutorials on “LESSONS” and you will be a virtual fashion designer in no time. If you want more basic pattern templates to work with, you can download them from http://bit.ly/MDBasicPattern

#7

[b][u]USEABILITY

[/u]I AM A 3D CHARACTER MODELER AT A GAMING COMPANY, HOW CAN I BEST USE MARVELOUS DESIGNER IN MY WORKFLOW?[/b]
Most 3D character modelers at gaming companies use Marvelous Designer to model characters’ clothing quickly. After creating a character using your 3D software, you can easily import it into Marvelous Designer as an OBJ or Collada format and create and drape clothing onto it. When you have completed creating the clothing, you can export everything as OBJ to bring it back to your initial 3D software. Marvelous Designer also supports raising or lowering the number of polygons, so you can freely optimize the number of polygons for your characters’ clothing.

I AM A 3D CHARACTER ANIMATOR AT AN ANIMATED STUDIO, HOW CAN I BEST USE MARVELOUS DESIGNER IN MY WORKFLOW?
Marvelous Designer can be integrated quite simply through importing/exporting OBJ and cache files. For 3D character animators, Marvelous Designer is able to provide the different importing/exporting formats according to the 3D software you use; users can import/export the character animation as a Maya cache format for Autodesk Maya, point cache 2 format for 3dsMax and Soft Image, and mdd format for Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Soft Image software. Animators are are able to work on their 3D clothing animation freely.

I AM A DAZ / POSER USER, HOW CAN I BEST USE MARVELOUS DESIGNER?
Most of our DAZ/ Poser users enjoy creating and draping clothes for their character models. You can import your character as OBJ format and learn how to create 3D clothing with the series of tutorials on our website. Also, feel free to join in on user discussions on our forum.CAN I IMPORT MY OWN AVATAR?
You can import an avatar using OBJ, Collada, and STL file formats.
When importing your avatar, make sure to set the scale to “CM (Centimeter)” because the default scale in Marvelous Designer is “MM (Millimeter)”.

CAN YOU MAKE BAGS, BEDS, ETC?
Yes, you can. In fact, you can create anything to do with fabrics. Here is a tutorial on how to make bags in Marvelous Designer. http://vimeo.com/18261988