hi Anthony,

I didn't test under P7, but in P8 everything works fine in any position, as long as you start with a decent fit (parenting the skirt to the right surgeon, constrain some verts at the shoulder, try to prevent poke-troughs by having the surgeons in a reasonable pose). And of course you need three simulations as each skirt collides with a different surgeon.

The effect you describe happened to me in the early days too. I had an animation starting at 0,0 in frame 1, then moved everyone into position in frame 2, and life started from frame 5 or so. The movement from F1 to F2 introduced extreme effects on the cloth, as you can understand.

Draping just adds frames before F1, and leaves them out of the result. Unchecking the "drape from zero pose" might have some effect too.

Suggestions anyone?

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