Help With Baggy Pants

[dweinin]

Hello-

I have modeled a character that I want to put pants onto. Karate Pants... Nice and baggy with some long big folds that run from the top to bottom.

I am a bit new to Maya Cloth but really I feel like I understand it. Curves, Panels, garmants, cloth. Keeps things close to a realistic cloth pattern. Simulate... cool.

I feel like this should be fairly simple to do. I've created the panels, garmants and cloth. When I simulate it the cloth "sucks" to the body. What am I doing wrong? It is too elastic.

I just want it to hang.

I'm running Maya 8.
Any help is great.

If I can figure out how to post pictures I'll do that soon.

[rossf]

your curves may not be big enough,it is quite decieving how much cloth is required to cover an area .I always use instanced curves so that I can adjust say both front pant curves from a third copy that is only adjusted in front view to avoid 'breaking' the curves.Also you can adjust the width or length with the cloth properties u and v scale but I always use this just for fine tweaking,not broad shaping.Remember to taylor a garment for a character well is quite time consuming especially if you need a specific fit or shape to the pants.Even if you are working from a scanned pattern I find it usually takes quite a bit of adjusting.Finally it takes quite a bit of practice to get good results from maya cloth but it can give some really nice results so don't give up.good luck.

[dweinin]

Thanks for the tips. I'll keep trying.

I have tried a bit of a different approach. I modeled the pants shape with polys. Then converted that to cloth. The shape the cloth pants took is perfect for what I want. BUT... The pants do not animate properly. For instance... when I move my character's leg the pants cloth move with it but tend to fall through the leg at certain spots. I've increased the attributes to help keep the cloth away from the body but it doesn't seem to be helping much. I am wondering if this is a by product of not having enough polys in the models because I'm trying to keep a low count. Or if maybe it's the fault of tranforming polys into colth... or if it's the ever present... I don't really know what I'm doing factor. I hate that one... run into it all the time... I wonder if there is a patch for that!

I will try your recommendations and see what happens. Do you know of any good tutorials?