I've been messing in the cloth room all day and just can't get the hang of what's going on in there. I've read the manual (which wasn't any help at all), I looked through tutorials, I've searched for one message I remembered here on draping a square over a figure (but never could find it), and I've actually checked more of the messages found when doing a search for "cloth room". I need help bad. I want a square to drape over a rocker as in the above pic. Thanks, Cherokee

Attached Link: cloth room discussion

This is probably the thread you're talking about, where someone is trying to drape a cloth over a figure.

1. Position your cloth prop above the chair.

2. Enter the Cloth Room.

3. Create a new simulation; set the drape frames to at least 15.

4. Clothify the cloth prop.

5. Set it to collide against the chair.

6. Click the Simulation Settings button, then Calculate Drape. Wait.

Increase the number of drape frames if the cloth isn't falling far enough. Or increase the Cloth Density.

OK, I've had the same problem as in the previous link. I've done everything you said little_dragon and followed the other message and tutorial mentioned in it but something strange happens..the cloth seems to pass through the chair to below ground level and doesn't drape over the chair..it's almost as if the chair isn't there.

Odd. Did you click the Collide Against button and then add the chair as a collision object?

Yeah, did that and it still goes right through the chair.

Just getting into the Cloth Room so I am far from being an expert. The problem may be due to the square you are using. From what I gather, the mesh must be properly configured to act as dynamic cloth. I would suggest reading the tutorials at www.poserfashion.net. Here you can also download a flag, scale it a bit, etc., and it should do what you want.

OK, I think I'm getting the4 hang of this now if I can get the square to do a better job of draping...it's getting there tho. So, After it's posed in the cloth room, how do you save it for use in say P4? Export it as an obj file, morph target, or what?

Either method will work. You can export the clothified object, or spawn a morph and save it to the Prop Library.

It will export as a morph target .obj and as a full .obj, btw.

Some times a newly imported OBJs doesn't behave properly in the cloth room. Save it as a prop then load it in a new scene. Use the HighRez Prop square. The standard square does not have enough polygons to behave. Use lots of frames. Let the animation run out for 30 or more. When your cloth is in the form you want export it as an OBJ. Then you and import it and use it like a fixed prop. Nerd

P.S. I set up the square so it was almost touching the top of the chair and constrained 4 or 5 vertexes at the top, just to make sure the cloth didn't just slide off the chair.

How do you constrain verteces? I always have problems with cloths sliding off completely. I've been just stopping the animation before it goes that far.

Randym77, I had that problem, I just edited one constrain spot to keep the square from doing that. It stayed put while the rest of the square draped. Thanks guys, you've all bee a great help and I thing I finally figured this thing out. The above pic was done in P4 after exporting it as an obj file and putting it on the rocker in P4.

Oh, by the way, that is a Log Cabin quilt texture by Lucy_Fur.

Wow! That looks fantastic!

It does look great...you did a lovely job.

Randym77, you constrain vertices in the cloth room. With your cloth prop selected click the Edit Constrained Group button. With the grouping tool select the vertexes your want to stick to the solid objects. Nerd

Thanks, Nerd. I never even knew that existed....

Wow, that's a great chair and quilt! Nice job!

Can an animated cloth simulation be saved as an animated pose set to your pose library??

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NO. The only way you could do that would be to savre the scene and Use File > Import > Poser Document or Prop to load the dynamic cloth and simulation to your scene. Be careful here if you import 2 sims with the same name poser will freak out. Nerd

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