M6 Getting cloth smooth again after it got knotted

[hummelvogel]

Hello, sorry for all my newbie questions, but heres another problem with the garment in my scene.

I have a woman in my scene with a peace of cloth hanging from her head down her shoulders and around her arms. Now in the animation she takes her hand up to her face and the cloth getts pretty knotted in the area of her elbow, which is not so big a problem because you dont see it from my render cameras position. But when she takes her arm down again afterwards, the cloth stays knotted up in the elbow region and I would like it to fall close to smooth (no need of perfection here) down her lower arm again (for now her arm is bare and that looks strange). Is there any possibility to "iron" the cloth after it got crumpeled?

Any hints greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

[bohne]

Hi,

go to the frame where you will iron the cloth. With the sculpt polygon tool smooth the knotted area. Make update cloth cache an simulate at this frame.

Bohne

[hummelvogel]

I tried what you suggested, looked fairly odd...
But I found another way of doing it, I just put a collision contrain on the knotted vertices with cloth collision turned off, and then solved again from the frame before the garment got knotted.
And TADAAA! the sleeve fell softly down her arm.
But thanks for your tip!