Quote - Collision Offset is supposed to need more resources, so it may slow down calculations.

I believe, there are no general values for these two parameters.
They depend on the kind of cloth/fabric you are going for, what the final pose is going to be, etc.

And there are the two general scenarios...
Working on a still, where you can use the morph brush to correct some pokethrough
and animations, where it may be a little to much, correcting every nth frame.

When I started this thread, it was with the intent to establish a point to start from using the cloth room. I sought values that should generally work for most situations. I wanted to know what to generally tick, what to generally leave alone. As per the title, this is a "for Compleat Dummies" thread. The idea was to get those-that-know to sort-of throw in a few ideas so the rest of us could just dive in and have a clue what to do to get started.

What the thread produced was what we generally see when there's any discussion on dynamic cloth: "it depends" and a lot of conflicting concepts. The ensuing discussion gave the impression that dynamic cloth in Poser was impossibly difficult and you needed a master's degree in Physics to get a grip on it. Whilst the data presented was probably highly accurate, carefully researched information, to this newbie it was dishearteningly, discouragingly confusing and it didn't address the question on how to get started.

Well, the settings I gave above are good starting points for stills, which is what I do, for a wide variety of cloth types, including true dynamic cloth, hybrid cloth and even conforming cloth I want to make do dynamics. This works for mostly everything, detracting comments aside.

So, let's restart this discussion with this question (and bring the focus back on what the original intent of the thread was about: simplifying dynamics for all Poser users): what do you generally use for stills?

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