Treewarden opened this issue on Jun 06, 2003 ยท 11 posts
Treewarden posted Sat, 14 June 2003 at 2:08 PM
Yes, yes. Things are better now. I took out hi res don and set a zero pose frame 1, then a stock fighting pose on frame 15, then a crouching holding gun pose on frame 30. I added the men's overcoat to the scene, then ran sim. At first I got horrible distortions around the shoulders. Then I constrained the waist up, and made dynamic from the waist down. I increased fold resistance, and shear resistance. Then ran sim and it did a much, much better job. The sleeves were not as fluid and so forth, but the top of the garment worked better if not the same as conforming cloth prop would. I assumed that the clothing should work since it came with the program, but it seems that each situation will need to be tweaked. I don't think it is a program bug per se, but I went though several crashes where the time counter on the sim would start going backward and forward and the whole thing locked up until I cancelled. I just had to keep trying til it worked. For nice cloth the time is worth it, I guess. I'm going to start with 30 frame animations to get the cloth right, then see if I can just add to the animation from there.