"get a reasonably thick piece of cloth to drape over the saddle area", umm - no you can't, at least not easily.

Cloth-room cloth is always "zero-width" which makes it difficult to use the cloth room for this purpose..

Having said that, there ARE ways to get somwhere near what you want.

Easiest:
A) Decide you don't want the cloth to extend past the point where the horse's body starts curving inwards. The colth-room will just let it dangle ('cos of gravity) beyond that point.
B) use Collision Depth (and possibly Collision Offset) in the "Collide Against" dialogue to simulate depth. Depth increases the distance away from the collision object (the horse) that collisions start to take effect. About 1.0 (1 centimetre) should do it, maybe a little less...

You can use the "cloth square" (aka hi-res square) to make the blanket, suitably sized.

You'll probably have to adjust the scaling of the saddle to avoid poke-thru's..

It's not something I've ever tried, but if you want more specific help re-post here, and I'll see what I can do (using the Poser horse - I don't have the DAZ one)..

Oh, and what randym77 said is correct. The cloth will no longer be posable (without a lot of work) after export as a .obj

Cheers,
Diolma

Ooops - x-posts. However, what I said might still stand you in good stead.. :-)

Message edited on: 01/12/2006 15:11