Game cloth, use thickness on mesh or 2 sided material

ArcaneLeo

im curious with nowaday AAA game, the character cloth especialy long garment like cape
or long jacket, the back mesh are visible to player
are they use thickness to their mesh or just using 2 sided material?

i want to work with physx too
i want to use no thickness and use 2 sided material, but its not good with the shading, its look like 
cheap papper, and its really ugly too see
or maybe i use thickness on the visible mesh and delete mesh that doesnt visible to player?

but are thick mesh are hard to simulate in physx?

pior

APEX clothing simulation works by simulating on side of a thick cloth mesh, and making the other side its slave. That way the calculation is pretty much one sided, but a whole mesh is rendered.

ArcaneLeo

ohh, so its no problem with thick mesh
good to hear APEX can handle thing effective like that,

maybe i stick with thick mesh, i cant stand watch one sided mesh

thanks pior for the info,it helpfull

pior

Yeah, it's pretty easy to setup - it's just a matter of painting in the "slave" information. Both the Max?Maya plugins and the standalone tool let you do that (it's not automatic).