Advice on simulating pile of cloths

[byrne]

Hi everyone,

i'm having trouble creating a pile washing in a short film i'm working on...

the problem is.. it's a large pile, it has to be carried and then stuffed into a washing machine and then jumped on.

i'm also wanting to simulate the movement you get when carrying a pile of cloth

i'm baffled as to how i can do this.. any advice is much appreciated.

cheers,
bob

[goggle]

Hmm,... I would probably create multiple versions of this pile of clothes with specific blend shapes for each action. And then use camera cuts and angles to hide the switching of geometry from your audience.

-James

[growler]

A pile of clothes behaves like one big bouncy thing because its made of many smaller floppy bouncy things.

I'd try building the pile in 8-10 layers of 'clothes', each layer deformed by a soft-body lattice (with goal object, of course). This would make individaul items (like shirt sleeves, etc) 'flop' individually.

Then take the stack of lattices and place them inside one great big soft-body lattice. That will make the pile of clothes act as a whole, while still retaining some of the individual movement of each layer.

Judicious adjustment of goal weights will make the top layers more floppy and bouncy, and the lower layers stick to the characters arms.

HTH
Growler

[joojaa]

what about bones, clusters or vire defirmers