do i need to make the rest of the bones child of the root hip? or just follow the bones? bit like this: Skirt 1 child of root hips Skirt 2 child of skirt 1 skirt 3 child of skirt 2 and so on. or should i not be using the root bone? its not very clear in the tutorial >.< This approach is generally r...

If you're looking to go beyond what XNALara can do, you're going to need to go with a general purpose 3D program like 3DS Max, Blender, Maya, Modo, etc. (though I've seen people produce pretty amazing work with DAZ Studio and Poser, also). As to which program you should use, that's something you'll ...

I notice that people are still using the normal-to-bump-map trick in Cycles in this thread. I just wanted to point out that the diffuse and glossy Cycles shaders (and likely others) now have real normal mapping built into them. It's definitely available in 2.65, and I think it may have even been ava...

Stumbled across a link to here today and I'm really glad that I did. Seems like a great forum and I recognize several modelers whose works I know and like here. I'm mostly a lurker on other forums and haven't contributed anything significant in the way of XNALara models, though I have written some s...