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Beobrand

06-17-2003, 07:58 PM

I have created a cloth and attached it to the hands of the model. When the animation is run the cloth falls in a realistic manner, but the bit connected to the hands always reacts as if there are invisible boxes around the hands/arms. This is annoying, as I want the cloth to be falling languidly down the back of the woman, not blowing and billowing out. The image is going to be a still, not an animation, so I am not bothered about how the animation looks, just one frame.

Thanks.

JayCMiller

06-18-2003, 03:12 AM

the invisible boxes are probably caused by the womans collision mesh, view it in the preview window and show the bounding boxes to see what there doing.

Beobrand

06-18-2003, 09:45 AM

Thanks for the reply. I haven't got 3ds max in front of me at the moment, so I can't check the bounding boxes yet. But if I find that they are wrong, how do I edit them?

JayCMiller

06-18-2003, 12:16 PM

I haven't got max in front of me either, but have a look through the documentation for settings, basically the collision mesh (your figure) has a buch of different setting for how cloth can interact with it, it can have a bounding box (with different settings) or you can use the mesh exactly.

under simulation geometry>Convex >use mesh convex hull is probably the one you'll need.

Hope this helps. :)

Beobrand

06-18-2003, 11:34 PM

Thanks again, but I've tried it and it doesn't seem to make any difference...

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