Hi,
Are there any tutorials available for cloth room choreographed groups?
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lululee

Drop me a mail matey, I'll talk you through it :) alternatively I think I cover it in my you tube vids.

John.

Oh have an article coming out in 3D Hobby mag which covers them too.

 Fugazi1968
Hi when you have talked lululee through it in the email any chance of cut and past to this post?
Regards

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Hi when you have talked lululee through it in the email any chance of cut and past to this post?
Regards

No problem, was gonna see if Lululee had skype, cos then I could show her through it.  If you have it you are more than welcome to give me a call :)

John.

Hi john,
I don't have skype.
Any chance of screen shots here or a video?
I looked at the Smith Micro towel tutorial but I haven't got the actual concept of how it works in my head.
 With my girls they  really want to unwrap the the towel and have it fall off not stay on.
Girls will be girls!

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lululee

Right ho, well the choreographed group is a lot simpler than it looks.  As with most things in the cloth room it is over complicated by daft terminology.  But here is how it goes.

With the Choreographed group you can dictate where a part of your mesh will end up.  But it is a little odd as to how it works.

as a demo add the hi res square from the Primitives props to as scene and position it just above the ground plane.

Set up a simulation and clothify the h res plane, then make it collide with the groundplane.

Click on Choreographed groups and select one or two vertices from one corner.  Then close the group editor.

Move to frame 20 then select the hi res square, and move it +3 or 5 in the Y plane, so it looks like it is hovering above the ground.

That is the bit that is wierd, because now you have a choreographed group, the simulation will only raise the grouped vertices to that point, no tthe whole plane.

Run the simulation and you will see the corner of the plane drag itself upward until it reaches frame 20, at which point the cloth will settle over the next 10 frames.  But the choreographed vertices will stay where you put them :)

 Thanks Fugazi another one for the tutorial file.
Hope to try this out shortly.

Quote -  Thanks Fugazi another one for the tutorial file.
Hope to try this out shortly.

Any time :)

Thanks for publishing this, Fugazi... be trying this after I finish nailing down some of the basics.

RobynsVeil - actually, you can ignore it unless you have a real need for soft or hard decorated groups on something. Blender's solution for this is more powerful and elegant.  i can probably walk you through it if you want. 

choreographed can be used to wrap a towel around a figure, flip the corner of a blanket, raise the edge of a skirt like a wind blown action or a hand etc. 

There should be a few existing tutorials on the towel wrapping idea.

Thanks markschum,
It is an impressive feature
and that I am exploring it's possibilities.
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lululee