What Poserversion you are using?

I did a very complicated piece of cloth yesterday (4 parts) with an average of 15 seconds for each frame. Setting the wrong collision mode/parameter (cloth against vertex, collision depth, etc) increased the framerate to 50 seconds. The reason was that intersections couldn't be avoided because the cloth was to close to the figure.

How the clothroom works depends on Poser versions and service paks installed.

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