Creating Thickness To Clothing?

[porkchop]

Hey there, I modeled a jacket using polys. I want to create some sort of thickness to the coat, so I made a duplicate and scaled it down a bit. I tried to use the Append Polygon tool to connect the outter and inner lining of the jacket so I get an edge, but I keep getting a criss-cross polygon. Whats the best way to create a sort of thickness to my coat? I need to do this also for other parts of the clothing. thanks alot!

[jason-howey]

one thing you could do is make a higher res version of the coat with the thickness all modeled out, and then do a wrap deformer to the original simulated coat. once you do that you can hide the original coat.

[porkchop]

thanks for the reply. isnt there an easier way to do this? Maybe im not too sure what you mean by your suggestion. I just have a normal polygon that I molded into the shape of a coat, but I want to make it appear like it has some thickness to it so it looks like an actual piece of clothing rather than a thin piece of paper.

[jason-howey]

hey,
there might be an easier way, it's hard to know exactly what is causing the criss crossing your experiencing without seeing it. If it's just a modeling issue thats different than if the simulation is freaking out. also are you using the old school cloth with panels or the new ncloth? Do you see the criss crossing when you're modeling the jacket or when you're running simulation.

my suggestion of wrap deforming a higher res version with thickness is good if it's the simulation that is having a hard time because that way you can simulate a paper thin version which will calculate fast and apply it to a more complex version of the jacket. hope that makes sense

[porkchop]

Ah ok, I gotcha now. I see the criss crossing when I run the append polygon command. I tried this with another shape to see if it was the jacket that was messed up, and the other shape did the same criss crossing thing. Ill see if I can get a screen shot up.

Also, Im not using cloth with panels or ncloth. I just simply used a polygon primitive to mold out in the shape of a jacket. I should have used a cloth sim, but unfortunately im still somewhat new to maya and havnt gotten that far yet

[onscreen]

sounds like a normals problem.
try selecting one of the coat objects and reverse the normals.
then append to poly.

[porkchop]

Ahh, thats exactly what it was. I had to reverse the normals to the underlying polygon. Thanks!!