A couple of further questions (btw - using the choreographed group does everything I wanted. The questions in this post are just because I like to know the 'why'!     :o)

On re-reading PhilC's statement that "Constrained is only for where the cloth is to be constrained against a portion of a figure." it's a little unclear to me exactly what the criteria are. Can anybody expand on PhilC's comment?

 

SM's Wrap it Up! Cloth Tutorial gives these definitions:

"Choreographed groups are groups of vertices that won't stick to the figure, but can be animated using Poser's standard keyframe process." ...this sort-of makes sense now. Would I be right to say that the choreographed group don't 'stick' to anything but remain more-or-less static. But if the clothified object (or the object it is parented to) is animated then they move in accordance with the keyframed animation (giving the impression that they 'stick' to the parent).*

"Constrained cloth groups are groups of vertices in the cloth object that will "stick" to items that they collide with- when a constrained group touches an item that it has been set to collide with, it stays attached to that item and follows it throughout the scene" ...I still don't understand why my constrained vertices didn't stay attached to the rod (well, not all of them - see screen-caps earlier). Can anybody offer an explanation?

TIA

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