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Marnix
11-02-2006, 03:50 PM
Ey guys,

I'm trying to make a cube fall on a fluffy silk pillow where the cloth at first is spread flat and with impact starts to bulge and will end in a nicely curves surface with lots of folds and creases in it.

I've tried to do it by hand with displacement maps and with cloth simulations and am now trying to poly model the animation by hand but feel i'm not doing things effeciently..

There has to be a way to do such a thing more rapid?? or am i dreaming??

The displacements gets to rough in rendering (unless i kill my pc) the cloth simulation is impossible to controle cuz of lack of volume in my pillow.. I even tried for a moment to mess with thick realflow liquids.. but this will take ages to make it work.
Thus now i'm doing it by hand but this isn't very effecient either...

Anybody got good suggestioned or played with such a thing before?

tnx in advance!
neuromancer1978
11-03-2006, 05:47 AM
Try using soft bodies maybe? Just a thought.
anthonymcgrath
11-03-2006, 10:18 AM
what do you want the cube to do exactly? Fall on the pillow and come to a rest or fall and roll off it somehow?

a method I did with some material recently coming to rest on a cube and a sphere was to simulate it with cloth. I then created blendshapes from this simulation resting point and used them as blendshapes. With a noise deformer to create initial rippling and some nicely timed keyframing of the blendshape it worked a treat. you could try creating the blendshapes of the pillow by making it a cloth object and making it really er sturdy/firm/whatever the settings are so it doesn't collapse in on itself

another method that may work well is as described - softbodies but use springs on it to create a more 'gelatine' feel to the pillow when the cube falls on it - you can always cache this motion off later for rendering.

good luck
ghotan
11-07-2006, 09:06 PM
try reactor or realflow soft body system
Buzzoff
11-07-2006, 09:15 PM
Are you asking how to texture the silk since this was crossposted in the texture thread or are you just looking to animated it? There were some good shader links the other day that mentioned silk.
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