Advice

[KScott]

Hi, well ive got my knight mostly set up and working fairly well. but i had a bit of a problem with the skirt. been playing with cloth fx and just not getting the results im wanting.

my method was two ways. One tried skirt with the knight object using weight maps for collisions. was to tasking for my machine probably had stuff set wrong kept crashing,:)
two separated the skirt and parented it to the knight and put collision objects parented to the legs. didn't get to great of results there probably set up wrong although i was getting some deflection.

then i thought why mess with cloth fx, just put bones around the skirt separate little weight maps and just tweek as needed. this as i just tested out will work fine.

before i go and toss in the towel on cloth fx any one seen a up to date tute on setting up this type of stuff. i looked for a bit, and most are older stuff. Or is it just not worth the hassle?

Thanks
Kevin

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[skywalker113]

This tutorial is nice. At the end where he's animating the cape he talks about a way to deal with imperfect collisons using nulls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCbIp2LlBTo&feature=related

[KScott]

Hi,skywalker113 Thanks for the heads up!, and yes it is a good tute, alot of what he's done is great stuff. i had looked at it prior to posting actually. and it was some of the best stuff i could find.
Here is some cloth stuff i did some time ago and never posted. :)
http://vimeo.com/17769539
I just am not familiar with the newer tools is all. I decided to go the bones route its just going to give me more control.

Wife has been on me for years to post stuff i never do,Ha HA!
So im starting to
Thanks Again!

Kevin

[wesleycorgi]

I really like your Goblin with Rat build — cool stuff!

[KScott]

Thanks wesleycorgi, was a porch decoration for Halloween. :) fun project.

Kevin

[RebelHill]

try...

http://www.rebelhill.net/clothfx

[KScott]

Thanks for the link RebelHill, nice stuff, funny too. :)
appreciate the time you took to create it.

Apologize for not posting back between christmas stuff and company party stuff last 2 weekends ive not had time.

Kevin