Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Cloth room tutorial for moving figure

phil_lawson opened this issue on Jan 22, 2024 ยท 11 posts


phil_lawson posted Mon, 22 January 2024 at 5:12 PM

Well I'm having another go with the cloth room. I've done the usual stuff like tablecloths and shirt/dresses on static figures and now I want to have a go at moving cloth on a figure whilst its walking. I guess I'd best use a female and a dress to start with but can't figure out how to get started. The few times I've tried the dress goes all over the place. I've looked on here and YouTube for tutorials but can't find anything. I'm probably not asking the right questions.

Anyone got any ideas on what to ask and where to look? I'm on P10 (still).

Ta!


RedPhantom posted Mon, 22 January 2024 at 6:15 PM Site Admin

It may be your movements are too quick. The greater the movement, the more frames you need.


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randym77 posted Tue, 23 January 2024 at 10:09 PM

I would set up some drape frames first, to keep the figure from walking out of the clothing. You can edit them out of the final animation. Parenting the clothing to the figure (or a part of the figure) might help, tool


JAFO posted Fri, 26 January 2024 at 2:52 PM

If you want your characters hands to interact with a cloth item, I recommend you create and use gloves as collision objects. The characters fingers snag on cloth items, creating undesirable results.

Here's a quick video showing the results...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qawKvP515RQ

Of course you would hide the gloves during render...

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JAFO posted Fri, 26 January 2024 at 3:08 PM

I should add that the gloves also have a cloth simulation applied... Add all vertices to the constrained group.... Simulation processes quickly as there are no dynamics to compute.

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phil_lawson posted Fri, 26 January 2024 at 5:31 PM

Thanks for the advice folks, I've not had a chance to try it all out yet but I hope to this weekend!


Jin_Yindao posted Fri, 01 March 2024 at 2:20 AM

sorry joined discussion a bit  late, but I have the same problem with clothing in the cloth room.  have 20 frames to drape material,  have a simple walk pattern created with poser.  figure starts  out fine,  about frame 45 the clothing goes every which way,  in all my other posers had no real problem in cloth room.  If you reset simulation, the cloth will not return to normal shape or zero position so it has to be deleted and re-imported. 

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phil_lawson posted Fri, 01 March 2024 at 10:01 AM

HEH, I haven't got it working yet either but I'll have a quieter week now (I've done so much painting and decorating at home I dream about paint brushes!) so I've set myself a task to get it done. When (if) I do I'll post my success!! (Here's hoping!)


randym77 posted Fri, 01 March 2024 at 11:19 PM

Jin_Yindao posted at 2:20 AM Fri, 1 March 2024 - #4482097

sorry joined discussion a bit  late, but I have the same problem with clothing in the cloth room.  have 20 frames to drape material,  have a simple walk pattern created with poser.  figure starts  out fine,  about frame 45 the clothing goes every which way,  in all my other posers had no real problem in cloth room.  If you reset simulation, the cloth will not return to normal shape or zero position so it has to be deleted and re-imported. 

What version of Poser are you using? Mac or PC?

My guess is some kind of memory issue. Weird things happen in the Cloth Room when it runs out of memory.


phil_lawson posted Sat, 02 March 2024 at 4:27 AM

I'm on P10 (still)..

Anyway, I finally got it to work so V4 now has a walk cycle of sorts with the dress now moving correctly. I had to restrain the shoulder straps or the fell off down her arms. Amazingly I did it by.. Wait for it.. reading the manual!

I can put up how I did it if anyone's interested.

 


Jin_Yindao posted Mon, 04 March 2024 at 9:42 PM

am using poser 13 on win-11  have 64 gigs of memory.


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