Whether you are a professional or an amateur, but still want to create your 3D model and want to showcase it to the world, do not worry, I am here with the excellent software, Sketchfab, an ideal for you. Today I will talk about, how you can make custom clothing on Sketchfab and the minute details of it will be shared here. Making customized clothes for your model, will give you the feel like a fashion designer, and trust me, it is a super exuberant job to do. So, let’s not waste more time; have a joyful ride with me.
Customized images on the web make it easier to visualize digital assets in great detail from all angles. It gives an easy way to interact with the products. Customized documentation is used by various industries like industrial design, automotive, textile, and many more for many years. It facilitates the design process, to enhance the design quality and communication through the designs.
The 3D printing industry has simplified the entire process and saved a lot of money, time, and Carbon dioxide emissions in the past few years. With the advancement in the digital platform, everyone now prefers to shop from home as it is convenient and less tiring. Also, customized visualization in clothes eases the design process to give you the feel of a psychical product.
There is a misconception about the difficulty of customizing 3D documents. Everyone thinks they need to be a 3D geek to customize a perfect 3D art. Sketchfab, an online platform for providing easy- breezy, and interactive publishing, discovering, and sharing of 3D documents on mobile, web, VR, and VR.
Before jumping into the details of the customized costume making, let me give you a brief sketch about the software itself.
What is Sketchfab?
In March 2012, Cedric Pinson and Alban Denoyel finally launched the site Sketchfab. It is a platform where you can create, publish, upload, download, discover, share, and even can buy and sell AR, VR, and 3D content. It uses WebGL and WebXR technologies that offer its users to showcase the 3D models on the web. You can also view it on a different platform, ranging from a mobile browser to a desktop browser to a Virtual Reality headset.
On the top of that, Sketchfab is totally free. It won’t scratch your pocket. All you need is a good internet connection and a PC.
Why Should You Choose Sketchfab?
You always need an easy and simple realistic 3D model constructor for preparing your models. Here are the few benefits provided by sketchtfab that make it the ideal platform for customization:
- Sketchfab provides its online viewers a VR-mode display to give the virtual products a real feel.
- This platform enables the use of PBR (Physically based rendering) materials to provide more detailed information about how light interacts with the surface.
- Sketchtfab has now provided two comprehensive sections on the material tab for translucency and subsurface scattering. These features allow a vast range of effects from a translucent material to subtle skin shades like milk and ceramic.
- This online editor has a strong and shining community that provides plenty of fascinating blog posts.
- Sketchtfab supports animation and annotations to make the garment more attractive.
- This platform also enables you to add post-effects to complete and provide you the best results.
- The sketchfab API comes with amazing features like nodes, change materials, camera positions, annotations, and many more.
- This platform is loved by millions especially the beginners as it allows you to use any models and even download a few of them.
- This editor is freemium type: you don’t need any additional info in the viewer until you don’t want to.
These bunches of cool features provided by sketchtfab are very difficult to find on other platforms, thus making it users’ top-choice.
How is Cloth Customization Changing The Fashion Industry?
Lowers return rate and increase conversion rates: you may easily reuse your customized model on social media, on any website, advertisement, marketing materials, and brochures, without any expensive way of photoshoots. The customized models can be used in your websites, which means you can easily receive orders right after the customization process and even before producing the physical product. The customized models enrich one’s online experience: being able to zoom in and out the product, move the product, and view light’s reflection on the product helps the customer to make faster and better decisions.
Customization clothing replaces the physical sample: the process of customizing the samples is very costly and slow. The samples made of various types of fabrics, sizes, and textures need a huge amount of resources and time. Online customization of samples doesn’t need to be shipped around the world thus reducing sampling cost, model cost, time, and provides time to focus on actual development. The high precision detail furnished by the customized samples enables a realist stimulation of outlines, colors, and even allows virtual draping around the body.
Allows customers to personalize their clothes: the desire for personalized and customized dresses is highly trending. To respond to the growth in personalization the companies expand their product range thereby drastically incrementing their cost of logistics, stock, and production. With simple customization, one can easily change the color and designs thereby avoiding the creation of unsold products. With Customisation you do not have to be the part of the changes in the trends in advance, there is no guarantee of the popularity of a given style.
Process of Customizing Clothing in Sketchfab
Before uploading the model in your sketchfab profile, you need to scan or make a model. With plenty of software options available you can easily create your customized model. To reach customized models you need to add two scripts.
Sketchtfab viewer-this library facilitates you to manage objects, cameras, materials, events, animations, and Post-process.
Sketchtfab API utility- this add-on enables you to reach things like changing colors, toggling object visibility, initializing, and adding textures very easily. Now you can embed your models by creating a new layer and include it in the HTML iframe code. You may also make a parent layer that will be an artboard.
Before uploading the model in your sketchfab profile, you need to scan or make a model. With plenty of software options available you can easily create your customized model.
Preparation of the Customized Files
Sketchtfab support several customization formats of your choice according to your projects need. For beginners, if you are unsure about which format to use it is recommended to use FBX or OBJ files. Both of these files support most of the customization features, are reliable and almost all other software can export them. If you are using FBX, the texture can be separate or embedded. In OBJ, if you may want to include an MTL file as texture while uploading it to sketchtfab. Sketchtfab is one of the best software to customize your models by combining all of your files to ZIP files. Not only this allows you to upload all your materials and textures at once but also it significantly reduces the upload time and size.
Upload with your customized you need to login to your
sketchfab account, and once you are logged in; you can upload it in two ways.
• You can simply drag and drop the customized file anywhere on the Page.
• The icon symbol of upload present on the right of the page will help to upload. As soon as you start the process of uploading a window will appear on the screen.
This window needs to be filled with information on the design like description, categories, tags, title, etc. This online editor is available in premium, business, enterprise, and a pro version that enables you to make the customized designs private.
Checking The Look
You can see it in the profile model only after you have completed the process of uploading. Here you are benefited by several sketch fab options to make your customized design look even better. With these tools, you can rotate, zoom in and out and move your design by dragging, scrolling, and clicking in the sketchfab viewer. These designs are not permanently protected and can be changed anytime according to your wish and need.
Touch Up
You can easily edit your presentation by exploring the 3D section. There you will find several pre-processing tools to change the model’s rotating axis, add lights, post-processing filters, and annotations. Sketchtfab also provides the facilities of adding a few extra features like shape, vintage, contrasts, etc. to give you the perfect customized cloth.
Bring Out
Finally, publishing the design for the viewers. To show your designs, you need to select the “publish” icon on the view model page. You may also upgrade to the pro version to private your designs. Sketchtfab has a feature that allows the downloading of designs for free. Now you can finally show off your customized design on various platforms of social media and the internet.
Now, your character is ready with your desired costume. After this, you can make any costume that you like your character to wear. I hope, you have enjoyed the journey with me to reach your final product.
