cloth sim issue

[gary]

I'm having difficulties getting my head round this issue... I'm working on an animated horse with flowing mane/hair and am trying to apply physics to the mane to get it to flow (so am using cloth) but can't get it to work correctly. I'm trying to follow the steps in the https://developer.unigine.com/en/docs/2.6.1/principles/physics/bodies/cloth/?words=cloth#attaching doc can't get it work right. Any help would be much appreciated.

Edited 10 hours ago by gary

Edited January 14, 2018 by gary

[silent]

Hi Gary,

Cloth setup may be very tricky in some cases. If you can easily replace simulated cloth with pre-baked bone-based MeshSkinned - it will be much more efficient (in terms of visuals and performance, of course).

Anyway, without a test scene it will be hard to get any valuable advice. Could you please provide a test scene for debugging?

Thanks!

[gary]

My thoughts exactly. I'll set up a bone rig for the hair. I'll try to pull together a test scene for you.

[gary]

Here's that file...

There's bone animation on the hair so you'll have to disable it to recreate any test simulations.

Horse_hair_sim.rar

[gary]

It would be great to do the sim for all the hair and harness straps in Unigine instead of having to do bones animation. Would like to do this kind of hair... https://giphy.com/gifs/l3diXJBdO6F4IoNuU/html5

 

[morbid]

Hello, gary.

May I ask you to attach required fbx? Your test scene scene is empty.

[gary]

Sorry...

Here's the .fbx...

trot_002_hair_test.FBX

[morbid]

Hi, Gary.

I've attached a test scene with your model with cloth simulation. Even for simple geometry (i used plain and your fbx) it is costly in terms of time and final performance. Body Cloth works fine with static geometry.

I guess the best way here is to use bone-based animation.

data.zip