hello everyone,
I am trying to model an "aeonflux" character and if you are familiar with her, i am having troubles with the hanging pouches around her legs. I thought i might do this with softbody but im having some troubles. she is weighted and has shape deformations on her body and she is all one object. when i place softbody on the pouches as a cluster, the body looses its weighting information if the softbody deformer is on the top of the heirarchy, but, if i place the deformer on the bottom of the stack, the weighting works again but the soft body does not.
does anyone have any ideas for me? I tried using bones for the pouches but it is difficult to set up all the way around her leg for animation purposes, plus, the beginning of the chain doesn't seem to work when she changes poses b/c it is always in the same place and doesn't move with the geometry.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.