You can see in the image they start out round and end up oval.

Thanks
Luke
 

rigid decorated group is meant to minimize that . If thats not working , dunno

Maybe buttons are multigrouped. Soft and rigid decorated. It should not happend but  I have no other idea.

Not multi grouped, I checked that.

make sure they are not touching the cloth mesh underneath. That should clear it up :). Just the teensiest of air in between ;o).

Laurie

That didn't help either. But I got them working mostly the way I want them to. Thanks :)

Hey Luke

Are your buttons physically joined to the mesh? 

If they are then adding them to the Rigid decorated group will do more or less nothing :)  they will just behave the same as the main cloth group.

The rigid group (and the soft) can't be connected to the main cloth in any way, took me a while to figure that one out :)

John.

I did not know that!  thanks

Quote - I did not know that!  thanks

It's a bit odd isn't it, it almost seems counter intuitive to have them seperated from the main mesh :)

John

Didn't someone post a trick for dynamic chains where you'd have one big (invisible) polygon for every link and that'd help to keep the links rigid?  If so, a single poly for the button would do the trick as well.

SVDL's Blouse pack has a single poly joining the buttons onto the shirt, and those buttons stay rigid (although not rigidly in place, just in shape)

Not sure how svdl does it, but I stick by my original post :)  I have been making dynamic cloth with rigid and soft decorations for a while now, and keeping the decorated parts seperate from the main mesh works.

I'd have to look at svdls blouses to see what he is up to ;)

John

John

Quote - Had a quick look at scdls blousepack from freestuff, the buttons I looked at are completely seperate from the main mesh.

John

Yeah that's how I had to do it in the blouse I just released into the marketplace too. In fact, having the pins/threads of the buttons sticking into the fabric actually caused my Poser 8 clothroom to crash! So some space between is definitely a good idea. :)

Quote - > Quote - Had a quick look at scdls blousepack from freestuff, the buttons I looked at are completely seperate from the main mesh.

John

Yeah that's how I had to do it in the blouse I just released into the marketplace too. In fact, having the pins/threads of the buttons sticking into the fabric actually caused my Poser 8 clothroom to crash! So some space between is definitely a good idea. :)

Interesections with the main cloth are not fatal on my machine, but they are not ideal :)  I find as long as the button is close to the cloth things usually work ok, though it will poke through the base cloth in certain extreme poses.

John