How to animate low poly cloth?

KingTomislav · Jan 2017

Hello. Im making game ready characters, and i have one with some cloth. This knight Hospitaller. It is still work in progress. What i want to achieve is to have his tunic move in similar way as in this video of Dark Souls III. How can i achieve that in general, but for Unity in particular? I know my cloth is shorter then in video, but during fight animations i plan to make it should behave in specific realistic way. Tnx.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ag/n7szdl9ijpt0.jpg

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2017

You can bake it to bones and blend the anims, or you can dynamically simulate, or you can combine the two.

You kind of have to profile it in your game to see which performs better, it depends on what else is going on in the scene, and your target hardware.

KingTomislav · Jan 2017

Thank you for your reply. I learned a lot. Bake to the bones looks like it can create the most realistic results. But, baking time can take hours, which considering i will have many fight, walk, and other animations (this knight is going to my asset store) it wont be completed before summer

. And i cant afford that. Using jiggle bone system in unity looks like better way for my purpose... Maybe i will even leave it just weight painted and animate it with the rest of body at the end.

Chimp · Jan 2017

I'd suggest unity's built in cloth for this case, there's nothing here that it would find particularly difficult in most cases if set up properly.

KingTomislav · Jan 2017

Thank you... Will post here when i complete him.

KingTomislav · Feb 2017

I completed him, in the end i didnt included cloth. That belt was penetrating cloth to much when i added cloth in unity. So this is the end result:

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/man/knight-hospitaller-game-ready

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2017

You can embed Youtube here. Just go to the Youtube site, copy the URL, and paste it here. For example:

Here's the URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGdbi8ywsRc

And here it is pasted into a post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGdbi8ywsRc

KingTomislav · Feb 2017

tnx. I posted that link cause there are many more screenshots and descriptions of the model, as well as this youtube video but also sketchfab link.

How to animate low poly cloth?

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