Cannot create cloth object

[stengah]

Hi Forum,

I have a pair of polygon trousers, that I imported from 3DsMAX4, but I cannot create a proper clothobject from them. When I hit create cloth an errormessage appears in the statusline, but the "cloth"-node is connected. When I try to constrain some of the vertises from the trousers to the collition object, it says that no cloth object was selected.

Has anyone encountered similar problems? I would be gratefull for any suggestions.

Thx in adv. T

[kmp3d]

I'm not sure if this applies to your situation but I assume that you imported the pants as a .obj file. I've had some bad experience with imported geometry. Maya doesn't always like imported geometry. I've seen some weird things happen with non-native maya geometry. You may want to try alter the geometry before you connect the cloth node. Try a poly cleanup, or spliting up the mesh and then combine it back together again, or use the poly extract faces on the mesh. Just try anything that alters the mesh in some way from the imported original. Even try duplicating it.

hope that helps