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animating cloth with bones
I have to animate a jacket flapping as my character runs about. At the simplest level I could just create a dummy as a bone and skin the jacket flaps to it, then animate the dummy roughly , but I would welcome suggestions to make to more natural It would be cool if the dummies would react to the motion of the particular… -
Re: animating cloth with bones
Yep spring controller might work well, it would settle back into a root pose eventually and would be driven by the motion of the character, but it might look more giggly than cloth like. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mPRM_GulCc[/ame] Using a cloth sim would work you can attachment constrain a helper dummy to the… -
Re: animating cloth with bones
cheers for that vig, will have a look through it, though I am starting to think this is probably out of my remit for this job:) nice flag tut BTW. I will make my small brain understand it -
Re: animating cloth with bones
ok thanks guys i will have a look at that. it does n't have to be very complex though -
Re: animating cloth with bones
Simplest thing (in Max...) would be to use Spring Controllers on your Bones...other possibility would be to use some Kind of Cloth simulation on a Spline controling the Bone Chain and baking the motion of the Bones into Keyframes... -
Re: animating cloth with bones
How complex does the flapping have to be? If it's just the tail of a jacket a bone or dummy with a spring controller would work, with the z-axis damped a bit. You can then collapse the controller to keyframes to fix up inter-penetrations by hand.
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