Ok here is the thing, I have my character with some clothing on him that I used pins to set. I dont know if this is a problem or not but every time i open the scene the pins are slightly off so I have to re set them. Anyway after I re set the pins and I make a playblast it looks fine. when I render it, it renders with the pins exactly the way when I open the scene...offset a tad.
what do I do?
Hi there
I never had that specific problem, but i suspect it is becaue u edited and changed your cloth geometry after applying the cloth plugin onto your polygonal or nurbs object.
A solution might be the leave the geometry but delete all the cloth nodes (write down ur settings!) and then apply the cloth again, that way you will make sure that the geometry has no history that interfers with the computation of the cloth.
not sure if thats gonna help, but i had weird results due to the same mistake 
cheers
thomas
I agree wit hTomas, must be. I have never had that kind of an issue.
A tip.
I have an exel sheet while I do the cloth sim. Write down the attribute values so I easily can go back and take values from other cloth sims.