Id just like to throw a shirt or top or something onto an object (or the floor) and have it crumple and lay there in a natural and realistic way. Is this possible without having to wrap it around a model?

I also created a bunch of sticks using the replicator but I didnt know how I could pile them all over the floor like someone had tipped them out of a box.

I'm not interested in animating any of this but I was wondering if C6 could create any kind of natural distribution that had been affected by gravity.

Hope this make sense... it barely does to me!!

The first thing you ask is called 'soft body dynamics', which is not in Carrara for now (it is in Poser since version 5 I think, so I do use it from there sometimes, export as obj and import in Carrara).

The second thing is 'hard body dynamics or physics', that is in Carrara. Look it up in the help files as 'physics'. Does work actually, but you need to know and try to figure it out.

You could just convert the shirt into a vertex object and then haul it into the vertex modeling room and do your folding and crumpling in there. 

Sparrowhawk plugin will not work in this case??

http://www.sparrowhawke3d.com/SimpleCloth.html

Thanks guys,
Just checking out that Sparrowhawke thang....

Sparrowhawk's plugins are great.  I love the fact that he just gives them away.  It's a real help for those of us who don't have the funds for the expensive ones.

Yes, Sparrowhawk has done a lot for the Carrara user's community with his generosity.

For the sticks, I think you may find the Inagoni Replica plugin a solution? 

http://www.inagoni.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.5

Brian

Damn!
All I get with the Sparrowhawke pugin is massive crashes! I've had to rip out the battery on my laptop everytime i've tried it.
There doesn't seem to be a idiot's starter guide in the manual :(.

Ready to give up now... :(