Cloth : trying to use Reactor

[Dave Black]

Well, in order to use cloth with reactor, you'l need a few things.

First, you need geometry...duh.

Then, you'l need a Reactor cloth modifier on that object.

Now, you'l need a reactor cloth collector dummy.

Add that geometry(with the modifier) to the collector.

Now, open you're utilities panel, and click the reactor button.

That will get you the main reactor parameters.

I think the cloth modifier is what you're looking for, though. It has all the properties of cloth for you to edit.

Hope that helps.

-3DZ

:D

[AshodT]

hey 3DZealot!!

thanks man,that really helped.
i think i have to ask more,hehe. when i used simcloth,i had to define another object (the girl in this case) as a deflector.

any clue how to do that with reactor?
thanks.

heres a shot of the "cloths". (this is experimental until im sure i can handle more complex stuff.

thanks

[Schnupps]

You have to put the deflecting object in a rigid body collection, set weight to zero in reactor utilies.

Schnupps

[AshodT]

hey Schnupps

thanks.

but nothing is happening :shrug:

i created a wind from the reactor menu,but i cant bind it. maybe i havent got to?? anyway,the rigid body way didnt work for me.

could be something wrong i did.

[Schnupps]

Should work though... Maybe try a easy scene first, a plane above a sphere or so. Do the steps 3dZealot wrote to the plane.
Create rigid body collection and put the other object in there.

Go to reactor utilities and check if the prperties of the rigid body are set to mass:0 and unyielding "on" if you want to animate that object.

For the reactor wind, you don´t have to bind it, just selct to work on cloth.

Then hit perform simulation and watch the plane falling on the sphere and sliding down.

Schnupps

[Stroker]

I had problems with putting the character in rigid body collection and having things work.
When I put the character in a deforming mesh thing, it was all good.
Even when the mesh wasn't deforming, that's what I had to do for some reason.
I don't know.

[Schnupps]

You just need the deforming mesh collection , if you object has subobject animations (like a character has) if not rigid is faster.

And don´t forget complex models like characters must use concave simulation.

Schnupps

[Dave Black]

I'd also like to add, that it may be a very, very good idea to model hulls for the character at this point, as it will save you a ton of calc time in the future.

-3DZ

:D

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