In this lesson, we're going to talk about avatars and arrangement.
Before we can arrange patterns, we must have an avatar.
So I'm going to click into my avatar folder.
I then have four categories.
In females.
I have six females.
Kids?
There are four kids.
Six males.
And then there are also 53D shapes which you could use for creating accessories.
I'm going to simply go into females, hover over one of the avatars here.
I can either double click or right click to add her to my workspace.
This is Camilla.
She comes in as a standard size four.
She is five feet, nine inches tall.
All of the avatars have many sizing and styling options.
If I go into the hair folder and I would like to change Camilla's hair, all I have to do is double
click on the desired hairstyle that I want, and this will then change to a different hairstyle.
That is the same for the shoes.
And if I would like to change her size, the women, the female avatars have many categories and many
different sizes available in all of the categories.
These are ASTM standard sizes.
That can be added after an avatar is in the window.
I can also make styling changes to my avatar by clicking on their on the avatar someplace and in my
property editor.
At body styling.
First I can change her skin style right off the bat.
And if I want to make further changes here, I can click the small head icon and change things about
the avatar.
I could switch the color of her underwear.
I could change the style of her eyebrows, and I could also change the style of her lips based on the
other avatars that are there.
Here is Dario, one of my male avatars.
One of the other things that you can change is the pose.
There are a handful of standard poses and simply double click on one of them to change the pose.
CLO avatars are fit with skeleton.
They are rigged so that we can see their joints.
These joints can be edited individually.
Or symmetrically.
Or kinetically, which means in this case, if I were to come down here on the bottom and move his knee
over.
It would affect the limbs and and the joints that are connected.
The child avatars all work similar to the male and female avatars.
As you can see, I have joints here.
That I can adjust.
And whenever you adjust a pose or anything in CLO, if you like the custom pose that you have made,
you can go to the file menu and save that as a pose so that it can be used over and over again.
The one exception about the child avatars is that if I click on the Avatar here, I do not have a body
styling option here.
I can change the texture of the bodies by going into texture and simply using the textures that are
here to cover or uncover the bodies.
And the way that you would do that is select this.
Part of the body and simply drag the desired texture over the top of the texture that is there.
Next, let's arrange pattern pieces around our avatar.
This is my arrangement.
Points practice file.
I'm going to collapse my library, and let's rotate around our file a little bit.
When we look at this here in the 3D window, what you're looking at here is the patterns on the wearer's
left side have already been arranged.
The goal here is to arrange the patterns to match what is going on the other side.
When I rotate all the way around, you might notice that the patterns themselves all look as though
they have a dark, grey backing.
That tells me that this is the back of the fabric.
That option, which is here in my 3D vertical toggle menu, is called Textured surface.
Textured surface will show me the front and the back of the fabric.
I'm going to press my two key to set me back in the front here.
And a best practice tip here is to select the patterns.
In this case, everything that is on the wearer's, right.
And simply slide them out of the way.
That is going to allow us to see what is happening here on the 3D window.
The first thing that we need to do is to go into our avatar display and turn on the arrangement points,
show arrangement, points or shift F.
These are the blue dots.
These are going to make it easy for us to arrange things around the avatar.
The way that we do this is that we can select a pattern piece, in this case, the right front of the
bodice.
We do not drag this over.
We simply move our cursor over and hover over arrangement points.
Okay.
As you can see, the arrangement points stay actual color.
The ones that you are not over get dimmed a little bit.
You also see a ghosting of our pattern.
And if I click on the desired arrangement point, it turns yellow.
The pattern actually sits between the arrangement point and the avatar itself.
I'm going to rotate my avatar around and now I'm going to select the back half of my bodice and do the
same thing.
Hover over the arrangement points.
And when I see the arrangement point that I like, I'm going to click on it.
It will become yellow.
And that pattern piece then is put into place.
Note here that the sleeve and the cuff are arranged together in the 2D window.
How you arrange them in the 2D window can help you when you are arranging them in the 3D window.
For example, if I click on my right sleeve and place it over my bicep, I could also then click on
the trim and put it on this arrangement point that's at the elbow.
I can also place two pieces at once by selecting the two pieces and simply clicking one time on the
one arrangement point.
They are arranged similar to the wearer's left.
They are overlapping a little bit onto my avatar.
I'm not concerned about that right now.
Another good practice is that when you have, again, multiple pieces like this, this color block leg
here.
A good practice is always to marquee them and place them all at once.
I could place these one at a time.
For example, on the back I could place the hip.
And the leg.
But as you can see, they don't quite match up.
If I undo those and select the three pieces that are going into place and simply click on the middle
part, back of the leg behind the knee, those pattern pieces will all go together.
The final piece I need to put in place is the hood.
And as you can see, I have arrangement points on the side of the head.
Once I have all my pattern pieces in place, I should turn off my arrangement points before I sew.