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title: Making Existing Clothing Into Customizable Clothing
slug: studio-guide/making-existing-clothing-into-customizable-clothing
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createdAt: 2024-09-02T08:34:13.133Z
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# STEP 1 : Preparing for rigging

Load the baseBody and the modeled clothing object, then align the costume well to the mask.

- Load in the Import Options window after selecting use namespaces and merge into the selected namespace.


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Select the necessary scale joints and add using the Skin > Edit Influences > Add Influences menu.

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**❗️ caution**

Make sure to check Weight locking in the options. If this option is not checked, the weight values will not be set correctly.

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Use the Paint Skin Weights tool to move all weight values to \[jointName] > \[jointName]\_scale.

- This is not applicable to the head, foot, and hand joints.
- During this process, hold all joints aside from those that will be moved to prevent unintended repositioning.

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**👍 **It may be hard to paint weights for the shin and upper arms. It will be easier to copy the mask weight after slightly moving the lowerArm(Leg)Twist\_scale joint. (Select the vertices of the applicable area)
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- In order for the shins and wrists to deform smoothly, the values of the lowerArm(Leg)Twist and lowerArm(Leg)Twist\_scale must be similar to that of the mask weight.


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- The weight value of the hips joint must be 0.


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# STEP 2 : Figuring weights

Move each joint one by one and edit the parts that collapse or have incorrect weights applied.

- Modify the scale value of the scale joints and check for problems upon deformation.

Unnecessary joints, aside from the hips joint, should be removed by Skin > Edit Influences > Remove Influences.

# STEP 3 : Finishing

Do the unBindSkin process for the mask (mask).


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Select the clothing object, joint (hips), and mask (mask). Then click Export Selection to save them as a .fbx file.




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**❗️ **Before the next step, insert the animation key in Unity and make sure there are no issues.
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