Marvelous Designer 7 Zipper Tutorial: How To Create & Edit Zippers

In this free Marvelous Designer 7 tutorial, you'll learn how to create zippers using the new zipper feature. Learn to modify zipper strips and zipper pullers/sliders, change zipper colors/textures/size/width/thickness, change the direction of the zipper, open close zippers (fasten zipper), create fake and concealed zippers, and solve common simulation issues to do with zipping up zippers.
We hope this Marvelous Designer zipper tutorial helps you creating Marvelous garments!
Have any MD7 zipper questions? Ask us below!
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[@Anak1t]

I swear if she did ASMR she'd be an overnight success. her voice is so nice to listen to

[@Cgelves]

Aww thank you so much Aniket! :) I'll let you know when I record some audiobooks (for KZbin). Wishing you all the best success with Marvelous and your career!

[@Hoyachoe]

Is this voice the sound of a fairy heard in heaven?

[@Cgelves]

Aww, thanks Hoya Choe! :) Have a great 2019!

[@elizabethkihara2668]

I really like your tutorials. Marvelous Designer doesn't have as many tutorials as I would have hoped but your instructions are clean, precise and easy to follow. You also have a really nice voice! Thanks

[@Cgelves]

You're welcome Isabel! :) Glad you like my tutorials. If you want to master Marvelous Designer and be able to create all the clothes you want, check out my in-depth online courses at CGElves.com/LearnMD We have a beginners course and intermediate to advanced workshops covering how to make all sorts of clothes and advanced clothing techniques. Additionally, we also have free clothing textures on our website, and a huge library of ready-to-use MD garments, clothing templates, physical property presets and fabric presets. Which can save you lots of time when creating MD clothes. All the best with Marvelous! :)

[@benimo6]

That voice sounds like something that came from the lord of the rings lol, very nice to listen to

[@jamaljamalwaziat1002]

Nice tutorial nice voice u have

[@ariendb]

Thanks for the tutorial! Is there any way to animate the zipper and place keyframes?

[@taranematzade6217]

Thank you so much that was very useful

[@Cgelves]

You're welcome Tara! :) Glad it helped you

[@3Designer_col]

Thanks!!! :) you are the best!!

[@Cgelves]

Thanks! :) Glad you liked the tutorial.

[@xinjin9592]

I love your tutorial and I love your voice too :)

[@Cgelves]

Thank you Xin! :) Glad you like my tutorials. Have fun creating Marvelous clothes!

[@knucklesbyname]

thank you!!!

[@Cgelves]

You're welcome :)

[@mrangel710able]

This program will replace illustrator. 👍👍

[@PhotoSlash]

why is my right side of the zipper line inverted? how do i reverse just one side of the zipper line?

[@sanialdesign2674]

Hello, I Searched everywhere how to solve a problem with the zipper : when I zip two completly separates patterns,it works.However, when you are trying to fake a zipper line , the zipper goes UNDER the garment.I troubleshooted it for one entire day and i found out that the zippers works fine at theses moments : in the first case i described two separates patterns, the same pattern if you have a hole, the same pattern IF YOUR LAYERS UNDER THE ZIP ARE AT 0 . I insist there, because my garments had multiple layers, and therefore it neverworked, until I found out that the zipper simulates well only if the garment behind him is set at 0 value. Hope that will help some people ! nice tutorials btw !

[@Cgelves]

Hi Sanial Design! Sorry to hear you were having troubles with the zipper and thanks for sharing your experience! Allow me to add, if you're working with many layers, set only the very bottom layer to 0 and set each layer bavoe the bottom layer to a higher number (1, 2, 3, 4 etc.). If you have many layers under your zipper, setting them all to 0 is not recommended since it will likely cause simulation issues. Best to set the layers to 0, 1, 2, 3 etc. and set the zipper to the highest number. Cheers!

[@sanialdesign2674]

haha yes, definitly ! mh I didn't saw were we could set layers for the zipper himself? would be super usefull !

[@gergutierrez5529]

Hello CG Elves, thank you for your amazing videos , I wonder if we can to export that zippers to another 3D program, if you can explain it, it will be appreciated, thank you very much :)

[@Cgelves]

Hi Ger! Thanks, glad to hear you're enjoying my tutorials! :) I don't know how to work with too many other programs, but I believe you can simply export the garment and it will export it with the zippers. At least for Sansar that's how it works. Cheers, Camille

[@2sahn234]

yeah I you can export but hace to be carefull polygon count as well normally piping, buttons zippers, contains huge amount of polygons i happen to export a garment mesh at 10 particle distance and polycount was 87k. and when exported along with, buttons and pipings and intricate stuff like that it became above 130k. so i had no choice but baked those details to normal map and diffuse textures...

[@stex9thimpact872]

15:00 decorative zipper

[@Bry3D]

VOICE SEXY...

[@nothingspeaks]

your voice was kinda annoying in the beginning (not gonna lie) HOWEVER the more i listened to the video the more of an ASMR effect i got :S

[@taranematzade6217]

Thank you so much that was very useful

[@Cgelves]

You're welcome Tara! :) Glad the tutorial helped you.