Lapel on a jacket - how do I stop it unfolding?

[jase107]

Hi I'm working on a character that wears a suit jacket. I created my jacket out of polygons and so far it has been working weill. The only problem I have is the lapels unfold during the simulation.

Is there any way I can constrain the lapel to the rest of the jacket so that it never unfolds?

Thanks in advance.

Jase.

[bohne]

There are two way to do this.
First you can set the crease angle attribute of your seam to specify the prefered angle for the seam. There you can also increase the stiffness for the seam.
Second you can select some vertices of the lapel and select the cloth constraint to attach them to the closest cloth point form the selected vertice. With the offset you can define the gap between the selected vertices form the lapel and the suit.

I hope this help

Bohne

[jbach10]

What are the limitations for the stiffness setting? My computer's a bit slow, so the simulations produce a "cannot truncate" error as I'm trying to find the right setting by trial and error. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[bohne]

There are no limitations for the stiffness attribute. At 100000 the cloth is near steel
cannot truncate is an error when you will truncate the cache an you have no cache simulated or when you are at a frame where cloth not yet been simulated

I hope it help.

Bohne