Assigning Layer for Outfit Compatibility (New for v1.5)

If you want to correctly exchange the clothes, gloves or shoes with other default content templates, then you must follow the specific collision layer rules to set the layer number of a piece of clothing.

The default and recommended cloth collision layer ordering is as shown in the illustration below, any clothing with greater numbers can cover the clothing with lower numbers:

Characteristics of Clothes Layer

• Each layer can be applied with only one piece of clothing.
• The thumbnails of the default content templates in Cloth category of the Content Manager shows the type of clothe and layer number.
  
  • This template belongs to the Cloth Type.
  • Its collision layer number is designated to 01.
• Applying a cloth template will replace the one worn with the same layer ID.

  The template with 5 is applied.	The character's clothes numbered 5 will be replaced.

• These number can be customized with iClone Character Creator Version 1.5 or above.
• The recommended assignments for the clothes are as show in the table below:

  Layer	Category	Assignment Recommendation
  Cloth 01	Tights, Rompers	Underwear, Swimwear, Tight.
  Gloves 01	Gloves	Gloves Under Clothing
  Cloth 02	Tights, Pants, Skirts	Underpants, Swimming Pants, Briefs.
  Cloth 03	Accessory 01	Socks, Headbands, and Conforming Accessories.
  Shoes 01	Shoes	Typical Shoes.
  Cloth 04	Shirts, Jumpsuits	Tucked Shirts, Tight-fit Clothing and Dress.
  Cloth 05	Pants, Skirts	Tight-fitting Pants and Skirts.
  Cloth 06	Accessory 02	Arm-wear and Medium Sized Accessories and Gadgets.
  Cloth 07	Shirts, Jumpsuits	Shirts that Cover Tight-fit Clothing. Typical Dresses.
  Cloth 08	Pants	Typical Pants.
  Cloth 09	Shirts	Typical Skirts.
  Shoes 02	Shoes	Boots, Long Boots, and Shoes that Cover Pant Legs.
  Cloth 10	Shirts, Jumpsuits	More Loose Fitting, Baggy, Clothing and Gowns.
  Cloth 11	Suspenders	Placeholder Layer
  Cloth 12	Apron	Placeholder layer
  Cloth 13	Overcoat, Other	Thin Coats, Vests, etc.
  Cloth 14	Empty	Placeholder layer
  Cloth 15	Overcoats	Suit, Coats, Jackets, etc.
  Gloves 02	Gloves	Gloves Over Clothing.
  Cloth 16	Accessory 03	Cloaks and Garments Tied to the Waist.
  Cloth 17	Accessory 04	Beard, Moustache, etc.
  Cloth 18	Reserved	Placeholder Layer.
  Cloth 19	Reserved	Placeholder Layer.
  Cloth 20	Reserved	Placeholder Layer.

• Even though there are two layers for gloves and two layer for shoes, the layers are exclusive for each of them, which means a character can only be applied with one pair of shoes and gloves.
• Basically, the gloves and shoes layers can be insert in between any two adjacent layers. However, the default layer orders of them as shown in the illustration above is the default given ones.
  • Gloves:

    The gloves are set to the Gloves 01 layer.	The gloves are set to the Gloves 02 layer.

  • Shoes:

    The shoes are set to the Shoes 01 layer.	The shoes are set to the Shoes 02 layer.