Roger,

I also think I understand what you are wanting to do, but I don't see any way it is going to work how you think it might...

First, let's start with some assumptions...

1. You can create morphs from cloth room simulations.
2. You can get those morphs applied to a conforming figure

3. The morphs could be hooked in to automagically set them selves based on certain poses (Joint Controlled Morphs).

So let's assume for the sake of discussion that all of those assumptions are true (and I think they are).  Now lets look at what happens in reality when you are trying to come up with the morphs...

If you do a chest-twist action and run a cloth simulation on the suit to come up with your 'chest twist' morph,  that morphed cloth would contain not only the draping of the cloth in that twisted pose, it would also contain the 'twist' itself and yet the 'twist' part of it is going to already be applied to the suit based on it being a conforming figure.

Just to complicate things further... what happens when you bend and twist at the same time?  What about bending backwards?  How many of these 'dynamic morphs' are you going to create? and how will they interact with one another, let alone the bends/twists applied by the conforming code?

So I think the answer to your specific question is - no, that's not really practical.

On the other hand, (and despite Starkdog's advice above to the contrary), there's no reason to break the mesh up into 'separate meshes'.  The mesh can be one continuously welded surface and still be grouped as a conforming figure (all of my meshes are a single welded mesh - with groups).  Which means that you could load it in as a dynamic prop and create a 'fold over chair' morph and then transfer that morph to the conforming item (I'd have to investigate how to go about transfering that 'full body' type morph to the clothing, but there is an app in freestuff somewhere that will do that).

• Keith

 

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