Tips, Plugins & Shortcodes
Handy Marvelous Designer
Tips, Shortcuts, features and procedures that we normally use when working with this Marvelous Tool.
▶️ Shortcuts for the day to day
Pan the Avatar/ Pattern Scene (Middle Mouse Button)
Rotate Avatar Scene (Right Mouse Button)
Select Pattern and trigger Gizmo on Avatar Scene (Left Mouse Button)
Zoom in-Out Avatar/Pattern Scene (Wheel Mouse Button)
Draw a Rectangle Cloth.
Draw a Symmetric Pattern
Select all Patterns
Polygon Tool
Edit Curvature
Edit Curve Point
Edit Pattern
Transform Pattern
Sewing Tool
Edit Sewing Tool
Free Sewing Tool
Press Shift with "Free Sewing Tool" to sew multiple sides
Simulate!
Add Pins by pressing W while moving the cloth during Simulation
Property Editor
Hide Avatar
Arrangement Points
Making the Patterns Transparent
Showing Pattern Measures
Hide 3D Patterns once selected
Thick Textured Surface
Textured Surface (Double color side)
Transparent Cloth ( Switch Off with Alt+3 )
Show Mesh Topology
Stress Points Locator
If you feel Marvelous symulation goes horribly slow even with a high particle distance and a low-res avatar and no many patterns...try simply to select GPU to simulate it. I have a GTX1080ti and I noticed a big step up, although the simulation features changes from the Default values.
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