Blender Secrets - Mixing Cloth Simulations and Weight Painting/Rigging

We can animate a dress on a character using both a Cloth simulation, and rigging. Both have their unique challenges: a Cloth sim may take endless tweaking to get just right, and rigging may not fit for parts that don’t conform to the body, such as the bottom part of a dress. Luckily, we can use the best of both!

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[ARANDOMOPENAIUSER]

1) Select Dress, shift select armatures, Ctrl P with empty groups
2) Add DataTransfer modifier to Dress, move above armature
3) Add Vertex group to Dress, make it a pin group and add decreasing gradient of values from hips down
4) Add collision to character
5) Add cloth sim to Dress
6) Add vertex group you created to Pin group in cloth sim for dress.

[isaiahdaniels]

You have the most useful tips. In aggregate the things I've learned from this channel have saved me well over a hundred hours.

[rajabwali]

Such a complicated thing, yet so simply explained.

[sennabullet]

Super helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[Carnifex]

Bless you! That was so fast and easy to follow! Now I can finally give my character the cape they deserve.

[rivergamer]

thank you very much, no one explains this and I've been looking for it for hours

[ManaLucune]

Now I have arrived to the best Blender tuts I ever watched! Simple, very fast with 0 complication!. Thanks a million ❤

[nuke]

you rock dude.every fricking tutorial.

[shinjiikarir]

thanks this was so simple to do i cant believe i took so much time to look for this video..

[arvzsights]

I love it. the point is right on the spot. I love all your tutorials..

[TechWrathTV]

mate when we add cloth at 0:43 the cloth becomes distorted and broken.

[frankreiser_recaremo]

Something went wrong for me. Using b3d 3.2.1. As soon as I actived VertexData - Vertex Group the most parts of the mesh are disturbed.

[ThatChalk]

This helped me out a lot. Now I just need a pc that doesn’t explode when I use this

[batuhanoktay]

I dont know why laughed that dance moves 🤣 btw quick and good tutorial 👍🏽

[spittingame]

I heard that creating an *armature on the flowy we part of the dress* is better that *the method that is shown in this video.* Is that true?

[gaabrielt]

that helped me a lot, thank you so much <3

[realinus]

How do you create a gradiant in 0:35? How are you clicking the down the whole arrow?

[cloudsgamezz]

The followed the exact steps. But when I connect the source of the data transfer modifier to the character, the dress deforms. What am I doing wrong?

[pelakalion]

Thanks a lot man. You save me a lot of time ^^.
Blesses to you and your channel

[tnova]

why does the cloth simulation run extremely slow when activated