Assigning Layer for Outfit Compatibility

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 for a piece of clothing.

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

You can customize the layer number to adjust the order of coverage.

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.
  
  1. Its collision layer number is designated to 01.
  2. This template belongs to the Cloth Type.
  3. The texture sources are from the Appearance Editor (Substance Material).
• 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 Character Creator Version 1.5 or above.
• The recommended assignments for the clothes are as show in the table below:

  Layer	Category	Intended Usage
  Cloth 01	Underwear, Shirt, Piecemeal	Underwear, lingerie, leotards, swimsuits, and tights.
  Gloves 01	Gloves	Gloves lying under sleeves.
  Cloth 02	Underwear, Pants, Skirt	Undies, swimming trunks, and leggings.
  Cloth 03	Accessories and other items	Socks, headbands, and other personal accessories.
  Shoes 01	Shoes	Ordinary shoes.
  Cloth 04	Shirts, Leotard	Clothes tucked into pants or dresses.
  Cloth 05	Pants, Skirts	Tight-fitting pants and skirts.
  Cloth 06	Accessories and other items	Arm sleeves and other similarly sized accessories.
  Cloth 07	Shirts, Piecemeal	Garment under tight fitting Cloth 5, includes ordinary dresses.
  Cloth 08	Pants, Skirt	Ordinary pants and skirts.
  Cloth 09	Pants, Skirt	Wider and looser pants and skirts.
  Shoes 02	Boots	Boots (also with bunched trousers).
  Cloth 10	Shirts, Piecemeal	Looser, baggy, clothing and dresses touching the floor.
  Cloth 11	Pants, Skirt	Looser pants and skirts covering Cloth 5.
  Cloth 12	Placeholder	Placeholder layer.
  Cloth 13	Coat, Others	Light, thin coats and vests.
  Cloth 14	Placeholder	Placeholder layer
  Cloth 15	Coat, Others	Light, thin coats and vests.
  Gloves 02	Gloves	Gloves covering sleeves.
  Cloth 16	Accessories and other items	Cloaks and garments tied to the waist.
  Cloth 17	Accessories and other items	Placeholder layer.
  Cloth 18	Coat	Suits, coats, and jackets.
  Cloth 19	Cloak	Cloaks, smocks, gowns, overalls and frocks.
  Cloth 20	Placeholder	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.