Paul, If the Draping function works the same in a Wind simulation as it does in a normal cloth simulation, there's an error in your tutorial. The Draping frames occur before Frame 1 of your animation, not on-going through your animation. If you calculate 30 draping frames and 30 animation frames, all of the draping takes place first. This "softens" the cloth so it's not stiff as a board in frame 1. Still artists may not even need to calculate an animation to get nice cloth in their image because the draping alone may be enough. In the case of your Wind example, I think (not sure at all) that you're giving 30 draping frames for gravity to take it's effect before the Wind force even begins in frame 1. I know the above is correct for a non-Wind cloth sim, so I'm just guessing it's the same with wind on. Phoenix