You might want to try Cloth Room Helper by Kamilche. It drapes the cloth one frame at a time and converts them into a morphing cloth. Kamilche was having the same problems as you, and many others who have tried to animate simple things like a walk with dynamic cloth. She came up with a brillant solution! Cloth Room Helper is a free download over at PhilC's. =D

If you want to do the single drape/MT yourself, all you need to do is when the Cloth Room is done draping, export it as an OBJ, reimport as a morph target. This is a time saver in some ways. You can stop at whatever frame you want. Walk away, and come back later to create the rest of the objs.

The Cloth Room is cool, it's way too slow imho. So I tend to render is steps. Plus, doing it that way will prevent the bunch-up that happens if you have one bad pose (where something accidently intersects something else), and not screw up the entire animation.

Good luck!

bB

Message edited on: 01/23/2006 15:50