Yesterday the cloth room ate up most of the day for DPHoadley and myself. We are doing a Victorian story and obviously the ladies can't wear trousers, neither can they stand all the time.

DPHoadley's Victorian dress is composed of two garments for Posette spliced together: the formal blouse and the formal dress. It has a modelled collar, button band, basque and modelled in pleats. The vertices in the skirt follow the line of the v-shaped basque. The skirt is relatively low-poly. It looks great as a conforming garment in a standing pose.

In the cloth room, it is a disaster. We tried just clothifying the skirt and keeping the bodice conforming, or clothifying the whole dress. Either way, the simulation takes for ever, and if we try to clothify the bodice, the simulation fails (I assume because the bodice is too tight fitting and touches the body somewhere ??).

The end result (or the result at the point where the simulation fails) is a jagged mess  with holes in the skirt. Can't even be fixed in post-work.

Earlier somebody with apparent knowledge said that it was all in the mesh. Is this the problem here?

Poser 11 Pro, Windows 10

Auxiliary Apps: Blender 2.79, Vue Complete 2016, Genetica 4 Pro, Gliftex 11 Pro, CorelDraw Suite X6, Comic Life 2, Project Dogwaffle Howler 8, Stitch Witch