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Best way to attach armour
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iwkya 61 posts27 Feb 2009Hey guys, im new here so a big hello,
I am currently modeling a character for just a still image, but i figured i might as well make it rig-able in case i want to move it around.
I have simulated some cloth around it but have larger thicker peices of armour that will be attached to the cloth, but these are suppose to be rigid. I was wondering what would be a good way for me to attatch these to the cloth so that they interact with it but also move around if the character is running etc acordingly. These would be very stiff.
Should i try with reactor ?
Take a look tell me what ya think, i onyl just started the model last night so forgive the incompletion
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27 Feb 2009Yikes....having cloth attached to a rigid body is easy....but a rigid body attached to cloth is going to be much harder.
Can't even really think of an effective method off-hand. First thing off the top of my head is to create some point helpers, and use attachment position constraints to "attach" them to the places on the cloth where the rigid pieces will be "attached", then use reactor point constraints to link the point helpers on the cloth to your rigid armor pieces, and run the sim....however, there are about a million problems that will arise from this method...mainly, that the end result will look terrible because in real life, a rigid body hanging from a piece of cloth will affect the way the cloth moves, in this solution however, it won't. -
27 Feb 2009well it is some kind of belt if im not mistaken
i could suggest that you model it from the back and strap it around him like in real life so that it holds on to the body and the cloth in between.
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