http://www.opengl.org/news/permalink/opencloth-a-collection-of-source-codes-implementing-cloth-simulation-algori What does this mean for the future of dynamic cloth simulations ?

Could be really interesting!

Attached Link: http://www.opengl.org/news/permalink/opencloth-a-collection-of-source-codes-implementing-cloth-simulation-algori

The future of such dynamics within Poser?  AFAIK, the Cloth Room is a plugin and the features won't really change unless those producing the clothlib.dll expand their functionality somehow.  Maybe I'm wrong, and the Poser team can actually tweak the features substantially, but I've never read anything to that effect.  Either way, the company creating the clothlib or the Poser team would have to build upon the ideas provided at the link.

We could program cloth using Python, but that's reinventing the wheel and in spite of potentially opening up more a customizable feature set, Python processing seems to be inevitably slow for such purposes.  Perhaps there is a good algorithm at the linked site which could generate better results and decent speed in Python, but it seems like PPY will always be unweildy for such an application.  (Which is a pity, because one could, apparently, develop a soft body dynamics engine based on the same basic ideas used in a cloth engine.)

Perhaps the most hopeful possibility would be that this resource could make it easier for someone to create some sort of standalone, compiled plugin for Poser, to handle dynamics.  I imagine such a thing producing a data file for use in Poser, which could list the vertex positions.  The vertices could then be placed with morphs.  I wish I had the capabilities to create this sort of thing, because I really like the idea.  :laugh:

Or I guess someone could purchase the Poser SDK, if that's still an option, then develop a compiled plugin to be used within Poser.  Assuming that's what one would be able to accomplish, once armed with the SDK.  :unsure: