Winterclaw opened this issue on Mar 25, 2013 · 9 posts
Winterclaw posted Mon, 25 March 2013 at 2:06 PM
I'm trying to learn a little about dynamic cloth and something I see in my attempts to make it is that sometimes the polys on the cloth will explode. What are some of the common causes of this and how can I avoid them?
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cedarwolf posted Mon, 25 March 2013 at 2:29 PM
Good question. I'm still trying to figure out how to convert something into dynamic cloth.
Sa_raneth posted Mon, 25 March 2013 at 2:51 PM
there are some great tuts on dynamic cloth in the tut section here in rendo and i believe Lady Little Fox has some excellent tuts on dynamic cloth
markschum posted Mon, 25 March 2013 at 6:13 PM
a mesh will come apart if ots not welded. Some conforming clothing is made in a way that will seperate during the cloth simulation.
If you import the obj file for any clothing item you can run a cloth simulation to make it dynamic. If it comes apart you need a modelling application to weld vertices or add polygons to hold the parts together.
jfbeute posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 4:11 AM
It may also explode when the cloth intersect with the collison object. When for instance a hand comes near the body or intersects with the body the clothing tries to move out of the way and may start to begin exploding. Sometimes it corrects itself but other times things go from bad to worse. Try to prevent intersection if at all possible.
NanetteTredoux posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 9:36 AM
Some purchased items, even from Smith Micro, fall apart in the cloth room because they have separate details. There is one outfit with a full skirt that does this - I think it is the Storybook outfit. The frill falls off. Some conforming items just don't want to be converted. I rather model from scratch for the cloth room.
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aRtBee posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 2:51 PM
I did some tuts on dynamic cloth, on my website www.book.artbeeweb.nl
most of it is in there, I just need to finish some advanced stuff. Dynamic hair is in there as well.
have fun.
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Winterclaw posted Wed, 27 March 2013 at 9:56 AM
Okay, this was a custom designed item I did, so it's all one group and everything is welded.
jfbeute I'm not 100% sure what you mean by intersection. Isn't dynamic clothing supposed to come into contact with other items?
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jfbeute posted Wed, 27 March 2013 at 10:21 AM
The problem occurs when you place the hand on the hip and you configured the entire figure as the collision object (without excuding the hands). When setting up the dynamic cloth scene you should always set up a short animation. During this animation the hand may actually penetrate the hip or come so close there isn't any space for the cloth to comfortably fit in (considering the distance it should keep from both hip and hand).
Also during poke throughs the cloths actually intersects (penetrates) with the collision object. Most of the time this fixes itself in the next frame (but not always).