SoftFX question

[Darth Mole]

I've made a 'ClothFX' sheet which is supported at each corner, and I'm dropping a ball onto it (I'm just inquisitive). Now, to make the ball collide, it also has ClothFX applied, but this means that it always deforms in an unpleasant gooey fashion - no matter how high the Compress Stress value, or how low the Stretch Limit.

How can I achieve this seemingly pointless effect? Any ideas?

[toby]

I'm pretty sure the ball needs CollisionFX, not Cloth.

[Darth Mole]

Tried adding FX Collision, but nothing happens - the ball goes straight through the cloth. Also, FX Colliison doesn't support gravity, so I needed to add HardFX to get gravity to act upon it, so it falls.

Edit: Just checked and FX Collision is for particles only.

Ho hum...

[toby]

Originally posted by Darth Mole [QUOTE]Originally posted by Darth Mole

Edit: Just checked and FX Collision is for particles only
:confused:
Where does it say that? Proton uses FX Collision in his SoftFX demo video - it works, I've used it - I don't know about the gravity thing though ~

[Dodgy]

I've done this :)

You need hardfx on the ball to make it react to gravity.
You need to add collisionFX to the cloth for the ball to hit it.

I think CollFX is needed when two different types of FX collide, so that they can see each other...

[Darth Mole]

Yeah, that sorted it - I had to apply FX Collision to both objects. It needs a fair amount of tweaking of variables to get it looking realistic, but it, hey, works!

Thanks guys.