Allan,
I have iClone 6 Pro Pipeline.  I am taking your course and am more than half-way through part 2.  About 90% of what you teach I am already familiar with but you constantly bring up new points I didn't know before so I am profiting greatly and really enjoy the course.  I have also been watching your youtube tutorials on various subjects.  I have a problem that I think you know the simple answer to. What I am trying to do is hang a towel on a towel rack. I have a model of a bathroom that I downloaded from 3D Warehouse. I failed to make the towel rack a subordinate item so I modeled a block from the iClone blocls.  I set it up as a Dummy object for the towel to drape onto.  I designed a weight map as just a thick line going down the middle of a white background. I used a flex cloth model - cloth hung 01 from the prop template models. I set the cloth as soft cloth, activating it and setting its weight map properly.  The long block I set as a Rigid Body, activating it also.  When I animate the scene, the cloth settles nicely on the rack (block), but after I stop its animation it either bounces crazily on the rack up and down or it waves like there is a violent wind. I've tried for hours to fix it, modifying all kinds of values in both objects. No luck.  What I want in my scene is for the towel to just sit on the rack and have a character pick it up and hand it to another character who will wrap it around his hips. I know this will be complicated, but I'm always trying complicated things.  This scene is episode 2 in my series, "Into the Fifth Dimension". Episode 1 is already on youtube.  Your help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
 Mark

Hi Mark,

You will need to give me a little time to deal with this due to the complexity.  I do have some thoughts on this and I certainly know how to stop the cloth moving after it settles, but it will require me to do one of my usual videos for YouTube to get things across.  Typing a huge tome here wont really do it.  Please bear with me as I have to deal with my day job.  I will try and get something recorded for you as soon as I can.  In the meantime please subscribe to this topic as I will post here when the video is ready.



Alan M

Hi Alan,
  I think you meant "tome" not "tomb". :D Just trying to help...
TS

p.s. I have your course and it's great!

Awesome!!  Just for you I have edited it.  However sometimes tomb is a more apt phrase for some projects I have had the displeasure to work on.

:w00t:

Thx for your kind comment about the course, appreciated.

Alan M

Hey Mark, Mark here... is this the kinda thing you are trying to do....?





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Very nice stuff Mark,

Time for you to do a tutorial I feel?  ( And I will definitely watch it!)



Alan M

Well it's a bit sloppy for sure Alan, just spent a couple of hours on it. Wasn't sure it I could do it at all, I'm not real good with physics stuff at all. I just push EZ buttons till it looks OK or I walk away :D... so it was a good test to see if Mark's issue could be addressed quickly and and with reasonably good results. ;)



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You are such a tease, you have done a great job and it would be nice to see how it was done.

But hey if you want to leave it to me so be it.  I am sure I will figure something out.

;)





Alan M

That is exactly what I want to do. Strange -- another Mark who has the solution!

It appears he has a nice workflow as to whether we get to see it who knows.  In the interim I will do my best to find the time to work on a solution for you.


Alan M