Creating a plaid on a chair - cloth simulator?

solo

I'm still trying to decide whether to include it in the upcoming release of MSPhysics or write a new plugin that will specifically focus on soft body simulations.

I vote for a stand alone cloth simulator, great work by the way.

faust07

Great examples in your video, Anton! And it seams to work in MSPhysics.
A simple variant for MSPhysics would also be welcome.
This would make moving objects made of flexible materials more natural.
The problem of interpenetration of the partial surfaces could be solved temporarily with larger hidden body parts.

juju

Definitely a separate cloth simulator, pretty please!

Anton_S

Thank you all for your suggestions! Now suggestions for the name of the plugin and some upfront ideas would be great.

Right now I'm thinking of naming it, SoftWorks.

The plugin will have a UI for controlling the selected deformable groups' mass, stiffness and linear/angular acceleration/damper.

There will also be a toolbar.

One toolbar button will allow dropping/simulating the selected or all the deformable bodies until a stop button is pressed, which will freeze all/selected in place.

Another button will allow resetting the original placement of all/selected bodies.

And another button will allow toggling the UI.

Another two will allow adding Fixed and Slider constraints in places. The touching cloth will automatically will be connected to the constraints.

As for the back ground, all other non-ignored visible groups/components will act as static/movable solid bodies.

There will also be options for exporting animations.

These are the ideas for now. Suggestions that will guide me in the right way would be nice.

Thanks!

solo

'Softworks' works for me, now shut up and take my money already.

faust07

There are several firms in the world with the name "Softworks"...
Regarding the functions of the plugin you are on the right way.
It sounds like a little bit of a baby of MSPhysics outside of the physics world.
Please don't forget the mother...

Jorgensen

Hi Anton

I think you should think in search therms / what it does - use words that people search for - i searched for "cloth simulator", so that would be my suggestion (even though is does more).

Will I be possible to pick the cloth itself - and deform it?

Can you talk about an estimated development time? Like one week or two months?
(I know it can be difficult talking about that).

Thanks
Jorgensen

Pixero

It would be cool if it could have a virtual thickness setting for simulating thicker stuff.
And maybe a setting so that it could use let's say every other or third vertices of a dense mesh to speed up simulation.
My only name suggestion so far are Draper or ClothWorks.

measuredmove

Just a quick Thesaurus search on the word Drape - Cloak, Swathe, Shroud, Veil

Anton_S

Solo, good idea! lol

Pixero, ClothWorks sounds nice and actually very accurate. Even though it will also allow simulating soft bodies, such as the torus, the collisions acts as if cloth is wrapped around it. The name is also more informal about what the plugin does, which should also attract more users.

Jorgensen, it should take 1-3 months to get the first version released. Everything should be easy because most of it is integrating the features of MSPhysics, the other thing is getting a licence system like in Thomthoms SUdb. That, I will need to do more research on.

Faust, I will never forget MSPhysics. I will always work on it. In fact ClothWorks with its simplicity, will allow experienced users to get a grip of how MSPhysics works and transition to it MSPhysics for more possibilities.

Jorgensen

SSS - Soft Surface Simulator

Box

Soft drape.
As a stand alone plugin, reasonable price, easy sale.

cuttingedge

Something to do with the word "drape" would be apt for its intended use. If there was no drape in the Sandbox tools already--It can be called just DRAPE (IMO). Cloth could be limited to cloth materials.. .
Maybe also fibreworks.. just a thought.

But if we intend to create clothing (like marvelous Designer). Then CLOTH plugin should give everybody a good clue of what it's for.

I am loving this developments.. getting excited again about SU!!

nlipovac

Maybe SuSoft as Sous chef to MSPhysics.
Anyhow, when can we expect it!?

filibis

Why on earth noone attempted to create such feature before?
Anyways it's great to see this plugin taking shape.

I suggest using "Soft-body" phrase in the name since it's kind of a universal term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-body_dynamics

"Soft-body Simulator" maybe?
"**SoftWorks"**and "ClothWorks" are quite reasonable though.

measuredmove

DropCloth or Drop-n-Drape

juju

please be able to make curtains as well...

Jorgensen

@anton_s
just curious - are you working on this plugin / feature?

thanks
jorgensen

Anton_S

Jorgensen, I haven't started yet. Once I finish with MSPhysics v1.0.0, I will transition to writing this plugin. It will take a lot less time to write as lots of physics engine code snippets will be used from MSPhysics.

chippwalters

@anton_s said:

I'm still trying to decide whether to include it in the upcoming release of MSPhysics or write a new plugin that will specifically focus on soft body simulations.

Regards,
Anton

Anton,

I've been waiting for a soft body plugin in SU for quite awhile. Please do make it. And I'm happy to

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