Quote - Even a relatively low poly mesh will drape fairly well in a cloth sim. 

One option that doesn't seem to get explored often is to use the cloth room to create the morph targets for jcms, elbow bends, shirt bends... this could go a ways to add some realism. 

When running the sims you'd have to think smart in terms of what polygons to constrain and which to keep default, so as not to distort the overall clothing item too much.

In order for clothing to have JCM wrinkles, it has to be rigged as a super conformer, and then the wrinkle morphs ERC'd to those morphs. Because conforming clothing follows the figure, but the translation dials remain at zero, so just putting wrinkle morphs in the joints doesn't work because there's nothing to trigger them.

At least, thats the only way I've ever been able to make them work. If there's an easier way I'd love to hear about it. It's a very rarely covered topic, so its pretty much impossible to find a lot of info about it and the stuff that is out there for it is extremely dated, so a lot of it doesn't apply to newer versions of Poser.

The cloth room is a great tool for creating those morphs quickly tho.

 

~Shane