Cloth 17

[Shelton]

Cloth has been very hard to get a grip on. Second run at it

 

Steve

Cloth.mov

[robcat2075]

is that cloth simulated in a cycle or in the chor?

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[Shelton]

In a chor

[robcat2075]

At least the simulation finishes, that's promising already.

 

It looks stiff and my first guess is that the mesh isn't dense enough. Can you show a wire frame of it?

[John Bigboote]

It's promising! Rob's right- too much starch! Select the cape, run the 'splitpatch' wizard on it(insert and connect) this will essentially double the CP mesh and then add the newly made CPs to the cape group so they are red- and re-run the simulation! (Maybe run splitpatch wizard on it again after that for even smoother!)

[Shelton]

Wow, this has been an event. It is still a little more "springy" than I would like, but the collisions are working, nothing right now is passing through the cape!

 

Here is the cape

two.mov

[robcat2075]

Wow, this has been an event. It is still a little more "springy" than I would like, but the collisions are working, nothing right now is passing through the cape!

 

Here is the cape

 

 

that's much improved. The springiness can be reduced by raising "stretch stiffness". Try 1000.

 

You can make cloth less active while it's resting by raising "damping".

 

You can raise the air drag to make the cloth heavy looking.

 

edit: I meant "less heavy"

[Shelton]

Thanks Robert that was what I was looking for!

 

Steve

three.mov

[robcat2075]

Looking better! How are you attaching the cape?

 

 

 

You can raise the air drag to make the cloth heavy looking.

 

Whoops! I meant to write "less heavy"

 

 

(For "air drag" to be noticeable he'll eventually need to move through global space rather than walk in place.)

[Shelton]

Robert

 

Thanks for all the help

 

I have actually attached the cape both ways. In chor and actually to the model. So far the better results have been to the model itself. I have a collar and the cape extends out from the character by having a bone at the top of the collar.

 

Steve