Peacer opened this issue on Jan 16, 2006 ยท 2 posts
Peacer posted Mon, 16 January 2006 at 3:17 PM
Well I FINALLY upgraded from Poser 4 to Poser 6, and I'm so overwhelmed! I consider myself a near expert with Poser 4, and now Poser 6 has so much more... it's ridiculous (in a good way)!
Anyway, I've been playing with the cloth sim and have been having troubles. First of all, how can I get the dynamic prop to fit the figure on the first frame, instead of draping over the figure after several frames? I have the 'Start draping from zero pose' thing checked, but the dress doesn't actually fit to the figure until about 5-10 frames into the calculation. I want to use Poser 6 for animations (as I did with P4) so this is pretty important to me.
Second, is there at all a way to convert conforming clothing to dynamic, or at least find a site containing lots of dynamic clothing? I want to fit some of the default props to the figures (such as baggy jeans), and then simulate a strong gust of wind, but the jeans are conforming so I can't do this.
And finally (for now), how can I get the wind to work properly? I set up a wind object directly to the side of the figure, then just set a (hopefully) really strong wind with:
Amplitude=1
Spread Angle=66
Range=2.58
Turbulence=1
When I go to simulate the cloth, it doesn't really ripple or flow with the wind like how I want it. Any ideas or suggestions, or am I just doing it completely wrong?
I want to understand the cloth sim before I delve into all the new hair features, so hopefully I can get this working soon. I really cannot wait to start putting this program to work... it simply puts Poser 4 to shame! Thanks in advance for the help.
PS- If you guys want to check out the animation project I just finished with Poser 4, you can find it at: http://noescape.rateofinjury.com. It's a feature length CG film based off of Konami's Silent Hill, and I used Poser 4 for most of it (as well as AfterFX for Post and Max for some scenes). The first two episodes are very rough since I was just getting into Poser 4 then, but the visual and animation quality increases quite a bit after the 2nd episode.