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Questions tagged [cloth-simulation]

Questions pertaining to Blender's built-in cloth simulator. Blender's cloth simulator is accessed in the Physics panel.

Cloth simulation is one of the hardest aspects of computer graphics, it is a deceptively simple real-world item that is taken for granted, but it actually has very complex internal and environmental interactions. Cloth is commonly modeled as 2D mesh to simulate real world objects such as fabrics, flags, banners. And yet cloth can also be used to model 3D objects such as teddy bears, pillows, balloons, or balls.

Cloth interacts with and is affected by other moving objects, the wind and other forces, as well as a general aerodynamic model, all of which is under your control

Blender's cloth simulator settings can be found in Properties > Physics > Cloth

More information can be found at the Manual

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How to "freeze" a cloth animation at X frame?

How would one freeze a simulated body at frame X and use it as a static mesh? Following a tutorial, I've been able to do a cloth animation to my model, now I'd like to have that made static, without the use of the timeline. The thing is, I'm…
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Pinning cloth to moving model

I'm having trouble figuring out how to properly pin cloth to a moving object. The cloth is acting as a mane for a horse and therefore needs to be pinned in multiple places. I've looked at several tutorials but can't really 'transfer' the technique…
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How do I simulate only part of a object as cloth?

Is it possible to make just part of an object cloth? So for example, I've modeled a trench coat, but I only want the loose bottom half of it to be a cloth simulation. Can I do that?
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How to stop surface of cloth plane from intersecting my cylinder?

I have a cloth simulation where I'm trying to get a plane object to deform correctly over a bent cylinder. It seems no matter what I change it always goes through the mesh slightly, on the surface. This is a simple version of my project, it's even…
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Cloth physics : drop/unroll a cloth sheet from the top of a building

I'm working on a project and I have a video shot where I would like to drop a cloth sheet through the top of a building - Well, it's not exactly a sheet, it's a banner, but that is the idea. At the start of the animation, I would like the banner to…
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How to Switch Cloth Object Ready for Sewing Simulation into Printable Template

I'm making sewing patterns in blender, i.e. several pieces of flat fabric. Typically I create each piece as part of the same mesh object, and join them with edges so that the cloth simulator will sew them together on an avatar. What I want is to…
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Stretching cloth to targets

I'm competent enough with modelling objects, but I'm less experienced with cloth and I'm struggling with something. I've googled it, but can't find what I'm looking for, and for all I suspect I might need to use pinning somehow, since this is a…
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Old School Ghost Model

Trying to create a 3d Ghost like the kind with a sheet and two eyes. I've created the sheet, textured it and put it on top of a sphere. Looks great but I don't want the sheet to drop onto the object underneath. I want it to start out already draped…
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pinned vertices do no stay pinned when animating a cloth

I have created a cape and pinned the vertices I wanted to stay stationery however when I go to animate it they unpin and repel themselves from the armor they are supposed to be near. I turned down the repel and collision distance down as far as…
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Create a sail with cloth and curves acting as softbodies

I have a query! Here is a quick prototype of a sail i want to build. I it comrpises of 2 bezier curves to hold the sail and a traingle plane that I want to be cloth. I would like the curves to be maybe soft bodies and attach to the "boat" and…
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Cloth Pinning checkbox missing in Blender 2.8

There is no option to pin a vertex group to hold the cloth at the position! 2.79 had this feature
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How to do a cloth simulation in Blender?

I have the following scene: I applied the cloth simulation property to the cloth that is floating over the sphere. When the scene is animated, the cloth goes right through the ball. How do I make a realistic simulation?
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Sewing clothes using a cloth modifier and a collision object

I am trying to model clothes in Blender. I've looked at several tutorials, but the sewing option in Blender doesn't give the desired result. I've been trying it over and over again, but it doesn't seem to work. If anybody could be so kind to check…
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Cloth blowing around by itself?

I'm trying to animate a scene of my character in bed but my cloth keeps blowing around for no reason. There is no wind force or anything that should be causing this. I can't just apply the cloth modifier because I need the cloth to move around while…
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Cloth Pin Has No Effect?

As per tutorials: 1. Created and subdivided a plane 2. Made a vertex group of vertices along one edge. 3. Clicked cloth button in Physics tab, checked "Pinning" and assigned the vertex group. Yet it just falls, without hanging on to the pin…
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