fake cloth

[jubay1]

Hello. I've modeled a character with a trenchcoat. He is entirely made of nurbs objects and his movements are actually going to be quite limited. I still need some control over the deformation of the bottom half of his coat when walking and moveing...i'd like it to flow as smoothly as possible.. any ideas?

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[deke-kincaid]

You have lots of different options. One is to try softbodies on the coat. Another is to put bones in the coat and add spline ik and animate that. Also you can create a bunch of clusters, sculpt and wire deformers and animate them. Another is to create a bunch of blend shapes and put different set driven keys for different motions so the cloth will deform one way or another.

Deke Kincaid
deke@mail108.pair.com
deke@littlegreenmenstudios.com

[mads-tuxen]

You could also ad some bones, use splineik and make spline softbody. this way its easier to control and tweek softbody if ti does not have to look too realistic.

mads