Apex can be pain to set up, especially if you haven't used it before. It can also break easily and can into a nightmare pretty quick depending on what animations are running on the character and how you are blending them. It can also be pretty tough to dial in the exact type of cloth you want with the settings that they…
Hey, I need to animate clothes on a character for a school project in Maya. It's for a game engine and I have no idea how to do it. Does anyone have any good links to useful videos or forums or anything like that?
Like Mark mentioned above, it is quite painful to use apex the first time around, but it does get good results when it actually works. I'm not an animator so this is the route i took when needing cloth animations!
What kind of clothes animation? Like Batmans cape or gunsligers coat flaps? You need to create joint chains or a "skirt" then parent it to the main skeleton where it's appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzrETjZ7S1c
What engine in particular? If you can get it to work, you could use Apex Clothing (real time clothing simulation). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJSUOYHOSA https://developer.nvidia.com/clothing