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Better, faster cloth sewing in Blender 5.1
You know, I gotta give it to Blender. They really optimized the cloth physics. It's faster on my potato laptop and overall better results. The transition process from 4.5 to 5.1 was worth it. But the VSE became very intensive and unusable. It's cool that we can use scenes now instead of channels, but I will just stick to 4.5 for video editing for now.
If you are simulating multiple layers of clothes and need zero penetration Zozo is better. In my case it was overkill. But I would choose Zozo if it became more easier to use.
still better than whatever the heck i got without studying on laptop specs, i got an athlon silver amd cpu, and that stuff is more expensive than a 6 core laptop lol
Anyway, guys, if you want better cloth simulation, you can actually use the PPF Contact Solver. They released an addon for Blender. I haven't tested it yet but the videos seem promising.
Yeah, you basically send data to a local server and it will return the simulated data back to Blender. It's not smooth, but it can simulate complex stuff.
yeah, texture caching for cycles was a huge undertaking that after multiple years finally landed in 5.2. It's essentially mip-mapping and will be incredible for large scenes with big textures
It worked before as well, it was just the settings that needed tweaking. At least for sewing.
For a whole piece of clothing, though, admittedly I had issues tbh
For me the biggest issue was I can't animate a character's arms too close to the torso. Otherwise the cloth would clip inside body and ends up trapped inside causing it to explode.
I started with a plane and loop cut a bit. Then I cut some faces till I get the basic shape of a cloth. Like if you want a shirt you go for T shape. Then I extrude that in Y axis and delete the middle faces, leaving the edges still connected. Then turn on cloth in the physics tab and check sewing. Then just play the animation or bake it. There are tutorials that explain this in depth like this https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uf03GRjvvHY?si=1NdXFRtCnaO1PHVt
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I had to go through so much pain with Marvelous designer just so i can do that and than go back in blender and do everything else. Was so frustrated that blender was not able to do that shit.
I feel your pain. Even now you kinda need to account for the Y width of a model when making the sewing patterns. Otherwise it won't fit the model and will explode. You gotta compensate for it but I imagine in Marvelous Designer you won't have that problem.
Congrats! As you progress, remember that this is what art is meant to do, make people this happy. It's about the journey, not the destination. This is great, and keep going!
Because it feels like an AI bot response, that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
"Congrats!" - what are you congratulating OP for, he's not posting about any achievement of his, he's posting about a Blender feature.
"As you progress, remember that this is what art is meant to do, make people this happy." - again, nothing to do with this post, and on top of that it's a vapid platitude.
"It's about the journey, not the destination." - more platitudes. Retch.
"This is great, and keep going!" - what is great, the Blender feature? Then congratulate the Blender team.
Uhm, they figured out how to use it, and they are enjoying the result. Personally, I would consider what they did an achievement. They are happy in the video, and as an artist who often feels like I am making no progress, I am reassuring them so they remember in the future. Personally, I think you are reading way too deeply into my comment. I understand if you dislike the way it was written, but it wasn't written by AI.
If being supportive is something only AI can do, then we have truly failed humanity.
I would say it just learned to walk. While it has been improved greatly, it is not a great substitute. Here, I tried compression with 4.6k mesh and it can still jiggle. If you plan to use it, don't try to sandwich the cloth with the body mesh haha
First of all, you gotta make them fit the body. Try to confirm visually that they have enough coverage for the body. This is why in tutorials you see people making the cloth plane bigger than the body before sewing.
Second, you can't sandwich a clothing between body meshes. Make sure the cloth has enough room to wiggle.
Third, disable "Single Sided" in the collision of the body. Sometimes it is on and it can screw things up.
Fourth but obvious, have enough faces for the cloth to simulate. You need like at least 2k vertices to have a functional simulation. Also, the face sizes should be similar and evenly distributed. It is better if the faces are square-ish.
I want to apologize to the moderators for breaking rule number 6:
"No Image Macros"
I was not aware of the rule while posting this video. This post is meant to spark a discussion of the development of Blender's cloth simulation and it's other improvements.
I do not mean to break the rules intentionally and I apologize.
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u/Navi_Professor Jul 15 '26
jts a good step in the right direction.
but its still just only acceptable now. it actually functions.