Cloth collisions

[Paul Forwood]

So, has anyone figured out cloth yet?

 

I have an animation to finish off for someone else and cloth is holding me up right now. I don't want to spend too much longer messing with it to hopefully discover the magic formula.

 

I have made a simple test object with a cape and tested cloth sim in A:M versions 10.5, 11.0t and 11.1f. I still can't get collision detection to work. Any clues? This is pretty urgent!

 

In the attached movie the top two tests are done in 10.5 and 11.0t. The bottom two are both in 11.1f. As you can see collision detection doesn't appear to be working. Does anyone have it working?

[Tunames]

Try that in 12........

[mediaho]

Try that in 12........

Ditto. I haven't played with cloth since the earlier betas but I got nice results with it. It didn't cast shadows tho. I don't know if that's been fixed yet.

 

http://www.hash.com/users/ed/clips/cape2.mov

[gschumsky]

Hey Paul,

 

Seems that David got this to work pretty well by taking his animation and running it through 12 alpha 9 for the cape (he's doing the main character solo animation)

 

Greg

[Paul Forwood]

I haven't got 12 yet!

 

This will teach me to stop dragging my heels.

 

You,ve got be tooled up, man!

Cutting edge. All the latest features!

 

Well ... two capes, seven seconds. I feel some dynamic bones coming on.

[Mr. Jaqe]

I don't get it either... Collision doesn't seem to work for me, so I just try to avoid it.

[KenH]

Ed: Did you animate that in an action? If so, how does the cloth work before it's been simulated? Does it not get in the way as you try to animate?

[mediaho]

It's all done in the choreography. The cloth just sticks straight out of his back (as in the first frame) until the simulation. This was mocap, but if I hand-animated, I would have just hid it until it was ready to go.

[Paul Forwood]

Ed

 

I remember seeing that when you posted previously.

Sim Cloth seems to be working beautifully there, except for the lack of shadow.

[John Bigboote]

I, too, am tardy in obtaining my V12. I DID-however---go thru all the motions of trying to get cloth collision detection working in previous versions and came to this conclude:

 

IT DOES NOT WORK.

 

See you in 12!

[Roughy]

cloth in the earlier versions aint that bad, ive managed to drop a piece of cloth on an object (a head) and have it slide somewhat smoothly off it, gotten hoods to work as well. though they usualy end up getting stuck somewhere sooner or later anyway... :/