I bought Lalia from Miradus arts and it has a dynamic shirt?? It just hangs there :(( I went to the cloth room (I use Poser 7 sr3) and I cannot pose the shirt on Vicky no dials move have I got a bad cloth room ? bad shirt or am I just usless?

Mnay thanks Bri

You have to clothify the shirt to your figure and do a simulation, usually 30 frames is ok.
Set your figure to zero pose at frame 1 and have the final pose at anywhere between frames 25 to 30.
No dials necessary.

Dynamic clothing response to animation created within the cloth room.  For a quick tutorial, click on the link below:

http://www.philc.net/tutorial6.php

i have a question.

i have some cloth for M4 that is not meant to be soft. like very hard leather. and its around hes arm. like an armor. what settings should i use so that it doesnt move but just folows the hand?

i tryed 1000 fold resistance,1000 shear resistence and 1000 strecth resistance. but it still bended like cloth.

can anyone help?

ice-boy - try setting the stretch dampening to 0 and raising the cloth density (but not too high, 0.02 or something like that). Also set cloth self-friction and air dampening to 0.

I think the cloth room does have upper limits to how it behaves, but a heavy leather should be ok.

Could you show images of the results you're getting? Depending on the type of armour it may be better to deform it in some other way.

Quote - I bought Lalia from Miradus arts and it has a dynamic shirt?? It just hangs there :(( I went to the cloth room (I use Poser 7 sr3) and I cannot pose the shirt on Vicky no dials move have I got a bad cloth room ? bad shirt or am I just usless?

Mnay thanks Bri

One other thing not mentioned, in frame one ensure that the clothes are positioned on the figure, rescale it so that there are no poke throughs  If you do any figure adjustments, do it in frame 30, keep frame one's figure at the default level or less-key is no poke throughs.  Do all of this in the Pose room, then go to the cloth room.   Best of all have fun.  Jan

> Quote - ice-boy - try setting the stretch dampening to 0 and raising the cloth density (but not too high, 0.02 or something like that). Also set cloth self-friction and air dampening to 0. > > I think the cloth room does have upper limits to how it behaves, but a heavy leather should be ok. > > Could you show images of the results you're getting? Depending on the type of armour it may be better to deform it in some other way.

i modeled it in blender. i modeled it like that so that it has thickness. i didnt want it to look flat.

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so i tryed now your numbers Carodan. i noticed that i get better results with 5 fold resistence then with 300 or 500. interesting isnt it? with the lower numbers it holds the shape better then with a bigger number

is there a good tutorial for modeling clothes for dynamics?

I think cloth dynamics may not be the best way to deal with a model such as that in your images.
It looks better suited to parenting with adjustment morphs for the arm bends, or even creating a figure for conforming.

You could try experimenting with assigning the polys to the soft decorated goup and see what happens (I have no idea really).
Normally you wouldn't want a double thickness of polys for use in the cloth room to avoid the back-facing polys intersecting the front-facing ones during the sim.

Re - settings - it doesn't really make sense that a lower fold resistance would make for a more rigid cloth (that's not my experience anyway). Maybe you altered another setting that threw the test.

Quote - I think cloth dynamics may not be the best way to deal with a model such as that in your images.
It looks better suited to parenting with adjustment morphs for the arm bends, or even creating a figure for conforming.

You could try experimenting with assigning the polys to the soft decorated goup and see what happens (I have no idea really).
**Normally you wouldn't want a double thickness of polys for use in the cloth room to avoid the back-facing polys intersecting the front-facing ones during the sim.
**
Re - settings - it doesn't really make sense that a lower fold resistance would make for a more rigid cloth (that's not my experience anyway). Maybe you altered another setting that threw the test.

it doesnt work very good for shirts or similar cloths in close ups. there is no tickness around the neck. and it makes it look very fake :) 

if have 3 simulators.

when i calcuate dynamics does this mean that it simulates all simulators or just the one that i picked?

It does one at a time.
Best is to start with the cloth close to the body and move out. Or in the case of a top that overlaps a pair of pants or skirt do the skirt first. Then the top and set the top to collide with the cloth it will be touching also.

yes this i how i did it.

at first i did all teh clothes together. now i see that this is easier.

Best technic is what grichter said, though it is possible to launch all the simulations at the same time:
from the top menu, Animation/Recalculate Dynamics/All Cloth.

You can do all the simulations at once if you have them set up. Go to "Animation/Recalculate dynamics/all cloth". It may perform the simulation one at a time, but you start it and go do something else for a few hours while it calculates the simulations.