Blender: Cloth Simulation

Learn how to simulate cloth, control its appearance, and make it interact realistically with other objects in your scene, using Blender.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Getting Ready to Use Cloth

• Overview of cloth tools
• Understanding physics for better cloth sims
• The importance of mesh subdivision

2. Simulation Options

• How to simulate cloth
• Understanding cloth caches
• Simulation baking
• A word of warning about layers

3. Controlling Cloth Behavior

• Using the cloth presets
• Quality controls
• Material controls
• Damping controls
• Vertex group creation
• Animating vertex groups

4. Collisions

• Setting up collision objects
• Optimizing collision meshes
• Working with collisions: Distance
• Working with collisions: Friction
• Collision and Self Collision Quality

5. Cloth Extras

• Applying force fields
• Using wind absorption
• Setting up sewing springs
• Sewing our cloth together

Conclusion

• What's next?