Hello Hiemille,

You are right, This problem has been enumerated often in the forum.

I can explain what seems to me to be the way to find the best settings for a cloth.

There are two stiffening methods,

• the method by extension that follows the edges of the mesh.
• the method by neighborhood that uses a circle to select the vertices to link by a spring.

For me, the method by extension defines the global stiffness of the clothe. It is it which make the clothe looks like leather or silk. The method by neighborhood allows to link free parts (button, belt) on the clothe.

You can use the method by extension, alone, only for dynamic clothes. The method by neighborhood can work for all clothes but it it can generate a lot of springs if the mesh is small.I want t

The best way, for complex clothes is to make some tests using only the stiffening by extension to define the global behavior of the clothe. Then, if some parts of the clothe fall on the ground, you can apply a stiffening by neighborhood on these parts. For buttons, for example, you can select the vertices using the the selection by material or select one vertex for each button and press the "Elements" button. Then you apply a stiffening by neighborhood on the vertices using a distance that allows to create a link with the main part of the cloth.

I hope these small explanations will be helpful to you and to other users.

I want to open a new thread because I would like to make a tool which would allow to make a dynamic clothe from a conforming clothe. I will show some results on this subject. I don't like the meshes generated in many softwares (Quads or Delaunay triangles). I would like to show the a structured triangular mesh has a highly better behaviour. For cloth simulation, the triangles are better because it is the only shape that allows to generate regular elements. The Delaunay method generates irregular triangles because they are generated using a random spacial generation of dots. I prefer to use a frontal generation that generates equilateral triangles, all with the same size. Cette methode would allow to create precise presets.

Have a great day.

   Gérald

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