Hello Writers_Block,

I just had an idea about your thinking.

Perhaps, I can add a small cylinder around the free edges.

This method is close enough to the strand based hair generation.

I can use the free edges as a line and generate a circle for each vertex, perpendicular to the line defined by the local part of the free edge. These circles will be linked by quadrangles to define a meshed shape. The mesh of the cloth will be changed.

This new shape will give a bit to thickness to the edge of the cloth. The radius of the circles could be defined in the VWD interface.

It will be necessary to define how to apply a UVMap to this part of the mesh. The difficulty is not to define the UVMap coordinates but how to modify the textures to get a good visualization of the new cloth.

I hope my explanations have been clear enough.

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