Perhaps I should apologise to your computer. :) And thank you for going to all this trouble, of course!

I have something unrelated running at the moment, but I'll retry my belt versus tabard simulation again, taking the things you've said into account. That project was some time ago, and certainly wasn't run anything like your suggestions. I have an idea for making the belt to use during simulation using Cage's Mr. Skinner script, so it should end its "shrink" a consistent distance from the figure surface; and I can also define it to be higher poly, which sounds like the right thing to do.

I should add that I'm using Poser 7, so I hope there haven't been considerable improvements in the cloth simulation. Come to think of it, the original tabard simulation would have been run in Poser 6.