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MrGiggly
Thanks Juno! The gamechanger for me is this guide: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/high-heels-guide.14251/
My workflow is a little different in Blender though. I rough out a very basic sole and upper shape very low res in a flat foot pose, then switch to working around a final foot pose rather than leaving it flat as in YameteOuji's guide. I much prefer this as it helps me visualise proportions and fine tune to fit to the final pose.
That does mean I need to use Daz transfer utility, fit to G2, for all parts bar the heels to flatten them back out for VAM import.
For Heels I manually angle and postion them to a flat foot in daz (transform and fit to figure will screw them up!). That requires multiple VAM imports until the position is just right :)
My workflow is a little different in Blender though. I rough out a very basic sole and upper shape very low res in a flat foot pose, then switch to working around a final foot pose rather than leaving it flat as in YameteOuji's guide. I much prefer this as it helps me visualise proportions and fine tune to fit to the final pose.
That does mean I need to use Daz transfer utility, fit to G2, for all parts bar the heels to flatten them back out for VAM import.
For Heels I manually angle and postion them to a flat foot in daz (transform and fit to figure will screw them up!). That requires multiple VAM imports until the position is just right :)
MrGiggly
Thanks so much for the postive review and feedback. I've included a couple of clothing presets that should get people started.
If you select clothing preset, click on the G-Pumps var in the resulting list you should find them.
Ideally I would have liked the heeladjust profiles to come across when you add the plugin, however it doesn't look in VAR files (which is probably a good thing tbh). Hopefully the little guide on the overview page is enough for most people to transfer the profiles over to the correct folder and only needs to be done once.
If you select clothing preset, click on the G-Pumps var in the resulting list you should find them.
Ideally I would have liked the heeladjust profiles to come across when you add the plugin, however it doesn't look in VAR files (which is probably a good thing tbh). Hopefully the little guide on the overview page is enough for most people to transfer the profiles over to the correct folder and only needs to be done once.
Just need to be aware that they won't be as clean as the female versions.
Wrapping to morphed verts always seems to introduce issues for me with shoes, particularly on the sole. The Heel and uppers look spot on though in my tests.
Also the HeelAdjust plugin doesn't work with males as I don't think there are the necessary colliders on males.
You can still be parent toes to the feet and that works ok, just not as good as the plugin :)