Use Cloth For Money

[soupman99]

I have a shot that calls for a bunch of bills to come flying out. I tried to just duplicate the piece of cloth, but my system started to chug...plus I had like 20 cloth nodes.

Is there a way to instance a piece of cloth so that will simulate differently than the original, yet be more organized?

Am I even going about things the right way? What's the best work flow for the shot I'm trying to create?

[gmask]

it's better to select all the pieces and then make them one cloth node.. you want to make them fairly low rez and then add a smoothing function.. it is pretty slow so you might need to do it in several passes to get a large number

[soupman99]

k, I've got that working and it looks great....BUT

When the cloth moves, now the texture on the back sometimes peeks through to the front as the cloth bends. It's like the UV's from teh back and being pushed out the other side. How do I keep that from happening?

[fubar3d]

maybe try making the bills very thin cubes?

[vikash-kumar--7]

You might try making your bills without any depth--just subdivided planes.  Turn them into nCloth, and then grab the polys and extrude them to get depth.  Then add the textures to the extruded surfaces. 

Also, running the smooth command after the nCloth has been created does wonders for the look of the cloth with no appreciable hit to simulation time. You can often get away with much lighter geometry to start with if you smooth it after it's been made cloth.