cloth wiggles

[rartist]

I'm working in cloth again for the first time in about two years. i'm trying to lay a simple cloth object (plane) of good tesselation over a poly letter form. The cloth drapes ok, but it never settles down. It wiggles over the letter form and never settles down.

Two years ago I probably could have fixed this ok, but I can't remember how. What parameters should I be looking at to fix this one?

I tried increasing the samples, and the normals on my collision object are ok.

[mestela]

Check the settings of your collision object; depth should be less than half the offset, or you'll get cloth verts popping into and out of the collision surface. I start with 0.2 for depth, 0.4 for offset, and fiddle from there.

Also check your values are all in 'sane' ranges; if you do things like set your stretch resistance too high ( > 3000) or too low ( < 10), the solver will become unstable and give crap results. Setting any values to 0 will also break things, unless you really know what you're doing (not that I do...).