In nuce: CLO Virtual Fashion Inc, a company dedicated to the development of software for the simulation of 3D garments, has released Marvelous Designer 12. This can be seen from an announcement dated 15 November this year on marvelousdesigner.com . The software costs: individual licences are available for either USD 39 per month or USD 280 per year; the Enterprise version is priced at USD 1,700 per year for a node-based licence or USD 2,200 per year for a floating licence.
In toto: A total of seven short videos explaining the new functions have been published on Marvelous Designer’s YouTube channel . Below are these videos – along with their descriptions.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Auto Create Fitting Suit: This automatically generates a suit for a human character.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Hotkey Viewer Window: This displays important keyboard shortcuts for the currently selected tool. This is intended to allow users to quickly familiarise themselves with keyboard shortcuts – and thus enable efficient working. This function is particularly helpful because it emphasises shortcuts that do not have their own control elements on the user interface.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Merge Vertex by Proximity: With this function, vertices are merged with each other – taking into account their proximity to each other. According to the description, this function is particularly useful for quad geometries.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Spiral Pattern Tool: The new spiral tool is used to create frill or cone-shaped patterns. The tool is used in the 2D window of Marvelous Designer.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: The update includes simulation keyframes – which allow you to isolate individual simulations, merge caches and adjust timings.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Retopology Improvements: The video description of the topology tools speaks of improved flexibility and user-friendliness.
Marvelous Designer 12 New Features: Styleline Editor: Using the so-called styleline tool, patterns are generated quickly – in the 3D window and without the need for prior knowledge.
Click further: All further handouts for Marvelous Designer 12 are available at marvelousdesigner.com . Our author Günter Hagedorn , a design, programming and photography expert, reported in detail on the release of its predecessor Marvelous Designer 11 on 28 October 2021 . Digital Production also reported on the release of version 10 of Marvelous Designer on 18.03.2021. The graphic from the lead image of this news item was created by Artist Hoadman.
