I'm working on an animation with a guy walking down the beach with a towel over his shoulder. He stops,turns around and reverses his direction. I used the hires cloth prop and did some scaling and used some magnets to create the towel. When I set up the sim for the towel everything works great except when the figure turns around.. the towel swings out like it's made of paper instead of cloth. I used the default settings. The P5 help files aren't much help in setting the cloth parameters. Is there somewhere to find more info about the settings for different cloth materials and how they work with the cloth room in P5? Ed

Know what you mean about all those settings. You might try increasing the fold resistance. Another possibility is to set up a parented prop for the towel to collide against on the swing-around, and make it invisible after simulating.

Check out the tutorial section under Poser5 Secrets -- there's a really good one with all the basics about the cloth room.

Attached Link: http://www.poserfashion.net/About%20cloth%20simulation.htm

thanks for the links.... I checked them out and none of them really have what I was looking for... I redid the animation a bit and got rid of the fly away problem... Now I have another one... The dynamics don't seem to get saved with the pz3. I keep getting an error message that my prop can't be found. Anyone got any ideas or is this another bug? Ed

The dynamics are saved in a separate file. It ends in *.dyn, and should be saved to the same place your pz3 file is saved. Not sure why it's not finding your prop. Are you using the high-res square, or something you made yourself?

I used the hires square prop with some scaling and magnet tweaking. I exported it and reimported it... saved it as a prop... loads fine Ed