Create custom clothing

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To create a custom clothing for Fuse CC, you begin by choosing the base character on which you want to model your clothing. For the base character, you can either choose the base meshes (.obj) provided in the Content Creator Pack or a custom body that you have created. Then you create a high quality sculpt for your clothing item. You can create clothing items such as tops, bottoms, hats, eyewear, and shoes. Once your sculpt is ready, you extract the texture maps along with a low-resolution mesh of the custom clothing asset from your scuplting software. These files are then imported into Fuse CC.

Before you begin, see Create custom content for Fuse to know about the prerequisites and the general recommendations for creating custom clothing.

Clothing is modeled onto a base character. You can either:

• Model your clothing on the base meshes provided in the Content Creator Pack (MaleFitA.obj and FemaleFitA.obj).
• Model your clothing to fit onto a custom body you have created. See Create a custom body for details. To use the custom clothing in Fuse CC (Beta), first import the custom body.

2. Focus on the sculpt

The quality of the sculpt is important to a good clothing asset. Use your digital sculpting software to achieve the highest quality in your sculpt.

3. Create a low resolution mesh

Unlike the custom body, the custom clothing does not have any specific UV requirements. So you can create use topology and UV layout for the custom clothing. However, consider the following pointsfor the low resolution (or low poly) mesh that you create.

• The low polymesh has soft normals (single smoothing group) so that all the hard edged information is held inside the normal map. 
• It has a single UV layout per item.
• It does not extend beyond the 0-1 UV space.
• It does not overlap and is not flipped/mirrored.
• It is laid out either horizontally or vertically for consistent substances. For example, if you have the front of the shirt horizontal and the back of the shirt vertical, the substance like horizontal/vertical stripe can look very different from each other.

It is recommended to have the average triangle count in the range mentioned below depending on the custom clothing item that you are creating:

Tops: 2,000 - 4,000
Bottoms: 1,500 - 2,000
Hats: 1,000 - 2,000
Shoes: 2,000
Eyeware: 500 - 1,000

4. Extract the maps

Once you have finished sculpting your custom clothing, you have to extract certain key maps from the digital sculpting software that you are using. These maps are used for generating textures for the custom clothing when you import them in Fuse CC.

The following settings are recommended for the extracted maps:

Map dimension: 2048 x 2048 pixels

Color depth: 8-bit RGB

Image format: PNG

Naming convention for extracted maps

The generic file naming structure for the maps is

Category_CharacterModeledOn_NameofItem_NameofMap. For example,

Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_StdNM.png.

5. Gather final files for importing in Fuse CC

Use the recommended naming convention for filenames for importing them into Fuse CC in an organized manner.

Your clothing geometry: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt.obj
Normal Map: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_NM.png
Color Mask: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_Mask.png
Occlusion Mask: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_OccMask.png
Ambient Occlusion Map: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_AO.png
Detail Overlay Map: Top_MaleFitA_RolledSleevesShirt_DetailDiff.png

6. Import your custom clothing into Fuse CC

To import custom body files, choose File > Import > Import Clothing option from the menu bar in Fuse CC. See Import custom clothing and hair for details.