Cloth penetration problems

[cstallwo]

Hi all,

I am having a problem getting my cloth to work right:

I have a simple shirt over a polygon character... when I run a simulation it solves fine with zero problems - no penetration etc. However, when I play through from his dress up pose (frames -30 to 1) his sleeves ignore the arms. The torso panels seem to work fine with no penetration, but the sleeves act as if there are no arms there at all... no penetration problems because they don't even seem to recognize that there is geometry there. So from frame -30 to 1 the arms drop down to his side and the sleves just hang in space...

I've tried lots of stuff, including new properties etc. etc.

If anyone has some experience with cloth I'd love any assistance you can give...

Thanks,

cstallwo