Marvelous Designer / Maya Workflow for Production (RE-UPLOAD)

[@durrr123]

Instead of dragging the keys 24F in the graph editor, which can be a little finicky when dealing with a huge amount of curves, you can type in +=24 into the frame number entry field in the Stats area of the menu bar

[@gitarrtoken]

Seems like Maya 2022 needs the Ogawa file format. Got an error with the HDF5 file format: "Alembic files must be in Ogawa format. Support for HDF5 alembic files has been removed starting in Maya 2022."

[@Jotheartist]

This is so good! Thank you for making this vidio🥰

[@pinetreeYT]

nice, helpful video. I was going nuts trying to fix the funky normals. On another video I saw someone fixing it in Cinema 4D by adjusting "Phong Angle" setting from 22.5 to 90, but couldn't replicate it in Maya. Thanks brother

[@jac001]

This is cool, really helpful brother!!

[@user-fb6yp8xt5t]

Ah HA! so thaats why i should definitely be using marvelous designer. I was wondering to myself wats the difference if i just make the mesh in Maya. Very cool info thank you!

[@cgvapour]

very useful tutorial. Thank you for introducing me to this workflow!

[@user-mu8ok5xf8d]

do all the clothing elements need to fit in one box for the UVs. i got like a jacket shirt and pants and it seams like a lot

[@FaithRage]

thanks a lot that helped me a lot

[@tjcousler]

Glad I could help!

[@fatihcanbekli9351]

Thank you bro !!

[@letoatreides8098]

Thank you. There's no way around having to assign a shader to the alembic for every scene?

[@DeivBoo]

Thanks for video! One question, whan about retopologize, hipoly detalization and bake? Can we do it with that pipline?

[@vivekanandb6697]

Thanks a lot man !!

[@user-mu8ok5xf8d]

this isnt working for me, i tried exporting the cache and maya either wont let me an error message or bring in the clothing with no movement

[@TheSatzy6699]

Excellent

[@jithzz440]

Bro.. awesome tutorial... I've small doubt,... in this tut, u r using cloth which u created in MD. But how can we simulate if a cloth from maya(means if we have already cloth model ).. could u pls explain?

[@tjcousler]

Yes, you can import that cloth into MD. Go to import > obj > under "Object Type" check the circle that says "Load as Garment." You might want to make sure your obj has UVs before importing, because that's what MD needs to create a fabric pattern. Hope it helps!

[@antoniajazmincastro8780]

Hello, I have a problem when importing my character with Allmebic animation or with any extension. When importing it in Marvelous the scale of the head or shoes is much bigger compared to the body, and the scale of Marvelous and Maya are in cm... I don't know how to solve it... (yep, google translator c': )

[@StefWillemse]

Were the head and shoes seperate objects? Might want to freeze transformations before exporting the alembic

[@justin9649]

I know Maya has a "Transfer Animations" panel. Is there a way to transfer a cleaned up version of the clothing to the animation so that you get both the animation and clean topology?

[@everend_xyz]

are those fancy pants made in marvelous or is it mesh? I just wonder in terms of when to add cloth while I am riggings the character, thanks for the video)

[@HoomanBhr]

Is there any way to have the clothes animate inside maya? we may have different animation for each sequence. and it's frustrating to repeat marvelouse process for each one

[@zorika6554]

I dont have the big simulation button in the UI. what do I do? T.T

thanks so much! one question...quads since marvelous? how did you do? thanks again

[@tjcousler]

Hey Adolfo, I was using Marvelous 9 for this tutorial. To convert to quads go to the edit menu > context menu > 3D garment > quadrangulate. Hope this helps!

@@tjcousler thank you!

[@theosarteydiseno3d971]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Richard-hx6mi]

That walk cycle is killing me!!! lmao

[@tjcousler]

Animation clearly isn't my thing, Lol!

[@Richard-hx6mi]

@@tjcousler Man, I love it! And Thanks for sharing.

[@MondalNiranjan]

Can you please add link to the video where you started creating clothing for this character. it will be helpful

[@tjcousler]

I might do more videos on creating clothing in the future, but in the meantime, look up a guy named Travis Davids on KZbin. He's much more knowledgeable about creating clothing in MD

[@yueyuehu4383]

Hi, I m new to marvellous designer. Could I ask after all this, how am I supposed to add on the texture of the clothes? I would really appreciate if you could help me about it. I really tried everything I could and I can’t find any tutorial about the texture part. Thank you very much.

[@TimBrennan]

Thanks. Where I can I get that model so I can follow along?

[@sachpierre1848]

So...you actually do animations before putting the clothes on? I'm asking cause i'm making a short movie and since i'm a beginner i wanted to know if I should hand the model with the rig to the animators before doing the clothes? Great content btw !

[@tjcousler]

Hey Sachpierre, glad you liked the video! the important thing when working with Marvelous is having a model with a neutral pose. When you give the rig to the animators, you should have them set the rig to it's default pose and put it back to the origin for each shot. give it like 3-5 seconds of buffer between the neutral pose and the start of the animation. You would need to do this so that there's time for the cloth to settle before the animation happens. Traditionally, I think most people create the clothing during the modeling process, but simulate it after the animation is done. Also keep in mind that this is just the workflow that I use, there may be better more efficient workflows out there. I can only speak from my own experience. Sorry for the lengthy reply, hope it helps!

[@sachpierre1848]

@@tjcousler Thanks a lot, it's clearer to me now. Unfortunately I was given the task of doing the rigging lol it's a pain haha. Now I know it wouldn't be a waste of time doing the clothes this early on in development ! Great video keep it up :)

[@tjcousler]

@@sachpierre1848 Best of luck on your project!

[@pramodsahu5524]

Can we simulates existing cloth and please can make iclone to marvelous designer

[@Displant]

amazing tutorial man

[@Displant]

If u have a discord add me Secured#4555

[@jijetminato250]

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mayyumiwatanabe]

Amazing Vid!!!!

[@jancuq2585]

can you export the alembic separately? i'm having trouble because my shirt and pants have different uv set

[@tjcousler]

Hmm, try selecting only the garments you want to export first, then hit the export alembic button. You could also try hiding the fabric you don't want before you export. Just select the garment and hit shift+q

[@yomomma5347]

I'm unable to import the alembic cache into maya :/ it says it's not a valid Alembic file. I tried Ogawa but it only imports a cloth group into the scene and nothing else. i've tried other export options but they dont let you change the frame rate which I really need to do. any advice?

[@yomomma5347]

so it turns out the frame rate option is broken. i had to change my scene to 30 fps, export an alembic, do my marvellous business, export ogawa at 30 fps and then import that into maya and change the scene back to 25. really annoying. im using maya 2022 btw. hope this helps somebody

[@CanaryIsLand4LiFe]

@@yomomma5347 THANK YOU! it work!

[@hl6273]

When i import my alembic cache the number of frames are not accurate to my maya scene. I was wondering why every time Import it back to maya, my clothing animation timing is off. One way i went about fixing it is changing my scene time warp to be .8 because the animation is a bit longer in marvelous. How do i fix it so i don't always have to play with the scene time warp?

[@tjcousler]

I'm wondering if it's because you have different framerates between Maya and MD. In Maya down in the right corner near the timeline should be a framerate option, that needs to be the same as MD's framerate. I think Maya defaults to 30fps while MD's standard is 24. Maybe give that a try? Hope this helps!

[@hl6273]

@@tjcousler i have it as 24 fps

[@montezott9423]

@@hl6273 I have the same problem. Could you fix it?

[@aradw.8227]

hey... It does not work for me. When I open alembic in marvelous It's not able to do anything with clothes, Its freezes the fabric. do you do anything before patterning? thank you!

[@tjcousler]

Was the garment created in Marvelous? Or was it imported from another program? In this case, we created the garment in MD and baked it to an alembic. If imported from another software, I'm not too sure how to convert an alembic cache to usable fabric. There might be some forums on the MD website to help, they have some extensive tutorials on alembic caches and simulations.

[@sethoricalco1709]

Quick question, I'm trying to do this with some clothes models I imported form Maya but at it keeps giving me the error "Could not recognize UV borderline correctly" when generating the patterns from the UVs it has, have you even had this problem?

[@tjcousler]

I have unfortunately. Try double checking the scale of your geometry, it needs to match MD in order to trace the UVs properly. When I had this issue, I found some online forums that helped troubleshoot the issue. Usually just googling the error line that MD provides will give you some online resources to help.

[@nightcoreempress5248]

thankss

[@janetl8896]

Great tutorial . It might be a stupid question, but i have trouble to load the material in maya after import the Alembic cache.... Could you please teach me how to load the materials I used in MD?

[@tjcousler]

I'm not super familiar with MD's material functionality. Usually, I just use it to get an idea of how the material will look, and then re-create a more flushed out version in something like Substance. Look up a guy named Travis Davids on KZbin, he's a MD pro and can give you way more information about garment creation and materials!

[@katyakatya954]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@koliller]

Hi, TJ, how can I send you a email? I tried sending a message by IG, but not answer :(

[@tjcousler]

Hey José, sorry about that, I'm not very active on IG. You can find my email on the about page of my channel :)

[@koliller]

@@tjcousler I didn't find :(, but anyway, I ask you here, I have a doubt, I'm doing an animation in marvelous for a game (I'm using unity) the problem is that I now know how to do the animation, but it doesn't look like a "loop", the first and last frame aren't equal, do you have some idea of what can I do? Thanks for replying

[@IGarrettI]

why is marvelous so fast at cloth sim and maya or blender is so fucking slow?