Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Cloth Room Nightmare

fiziwig2 opened this issue on Sep 26, 2015 ยท 9 posts


fiziwig2 posted Sat, 26 September 2015 at 3:49 PM

I'm just starting out using the cloth room. I'm trying to pose a single frame with cloth draped over a figure. All I want is for the cloth to look convincingly draped. I don't want to animate anything. Just one frame. But here's what is happening:

First try: I posed the figure, added the cloth, went to the cloth room and set it up and ran it. The cloth draped perfectly. But I decided I wanted the cloth to be a little smaller, and while I was at it, I changed the figure pose a little, and moved the camera to a different angle.

Second try: I ran the cloth simulation and the figure started jumping around, the camera angle shifted, and the cloth ended up in the wrong place relative to the figure.

Third try. I deleted the figure and the cloth and started all over. I got the figure posed, added the cloth plane and went to the cloth room. As soon as I clicked on "clothify" with the cloth plane selected, the figure went back to his zero position instead of lying on his side, and the cloth, which had been scaled and positioned, went back to default size and was laying on the ground.

Now when I try to put the figure back in its pose, the cloth room always puts it back in zero posture, and when it drops the cloth it flips the figure all around and swings the camera around like crazy.

I suppose this all has to do with it trying to animate something it thinks I want to animate taht I don't really want it to animate. I've tried every button and tick box I can find to fix this. I even saved the file, shut down poser and restarted. Same thing. My figure dances the jig and my cloth drops where the figure used to be.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial, or give me some information on using the cloth room for NON-animated posing?