hi,

Good looking result. I'm a bit confused by the numbers. Offset in MrSkinner is in meters? Poser Collission offset and depth are in cm.

Oh I see, you wrote in the last paragraph: ... really be twice the collission depth.

You mean: more than twice the collision offset. Didnt you?

Does the belt has a thickness? Collission depth should better be less than half that thickness (upper limit). Without a limit, anything goes.
My hint was to start collission depth at the offset, and double it once or twice. So I don't really understand the extremely small 0,001 = 1/100 of a mm.

Because... as you take 16 steps per frame and 1 frame = 1/30 of a second, 1 step = 1/480th of a second and during that time any vertex should not move more than that 1/100 of a mm. In other words, the max speed of a vertex, pushed inwards while the belt is shrinking in, is limited to 4.8mm/sec. So when the belt shrinking starts say 4.8 cm from the body, it takes say 10 sec = 300 frames + some extra for settling. And I'm sure you did not do that.

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