As I am new to Poser, I did everything (I think) that I was supposed to do and read in "Poser 8 revealed". I first saved the skirt as a wavefront obj, then imported it back as a prop, parented it to the right thigh of my figure, went into the cloth room, set up a new simulation, clothified, chose the parts that it was to collide against,(thigs) set the drape frame to 5, and clicked the Calculate Drape button.

Before I did all of that, I also moved my figure from a standing position in frame 1 to a sitting position in fram 16.

When I clicked the Calculate Drape button, basicallly nothing happens. I get another window, saying it is "Draping", but nothing happens.

When I tried it first with Alyson's yellow dress, it worked just fine. The dress didn't exactly drape around my figure the way I wanted it to, but at least, it did calculate and showed me something. within a few mintues.

How would I drape a skirt around a figure sitting wiht her legs cross legged?

You might have better luck if you parent it to the hip.
Also, you might add a constrained group to a few vertices around the waist

Quote - You might have better luck if you parent it to the hip.
Also, you might add a constrained group to a few vertices around the waist

This :). Also, make sure that the whole skirt isn't in the constrained group - that group should only have a few lines of verts at the waist.

Laurie

Sometimes a simulation can take a while to start. Of course if the draping is taking quite a while to show progress usually the simulation will take a long time too.

Dynamic cloth requires a ton of patients.  Have something else you can be doing while the sim is running.   It's probably going to be an all-day event of tweaking if you aren't lucky.

It can get very good results, but there's a lot of time involved.