Blender 2.82 Cloth Simulation Basics / Every Attribute Explained

[@muhaY-vb5vp]

waiting for 5 million views, i swear this is one of the most important blender toturial

[@BBaaDDification]

Finally something useful on youtube.

[@outresler1757]

Legendary tutorial, this is what must be in documentation

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Well, it's all mainly based on the documentation, but combined with a practical demonstration, some of my own findings and conclusions)

[@angie4831]

Thanks from the bottom of my heart!!! you just saved me from going crazy

[@KEEYBLADE]

This is perfect. I really love the detailed explanation and how you show the result for different values. It's incredibly helpful.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Thank you for watching my tutorial! Please, welcome to comment!

[@kpatil5053]

Bro Please make same video on other simulation..🙂 and thanks for such great information.

[@OysterQueeen]

this is the most detailed tutorial i've seen you should do more!!!

[@alternatebazaarart]

SO HELPFUL!

[@caiostange2770]

thaaaaaank yooooou, i could not figure out for the death of me why my character was all bumpy and spiky. lower shear and higher bending did it. thank yoou

[@brntckt]

Well done! Very detailed. I think, I'll pin up some screenshots on the door of my fridge!

[@00LeP]

I´ve seen hours and hours of 3d tutorial and this one is one of the best I´ve seen. Clear, in depth and no bullshit. Great job!

[@FootyToonz]

KZbin doesnt have such a tutorial.. very very detailed

[@HanSolocambo]

KZbin HAS such a tutorial... you're on the very webpage of it O.o... When you eat a good hamburger in a Burger King, do you also say "Burger King doesn't have such hamburgers ? "

[@IanSamit]

Well I guess it's a matter of taste, but I really appreciate your style of tutorial as opposed to "... er well it's something like er" and "oh sorry, I really should have changed that parameter before I started"! Of course it's worth watching experts narrating their work flow, but I much prefer tutorials that are well planned, concise and easily comprehended. THANK YOU.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Thank you for your appreciation!

[@HanSolocambo]

rehearsing and video compositing are the keys to a perfect tutorial. Sadly 99% of youtubers don't give a f... about that and internet is spoiled with useless content. Or even worse : with ultra useful content but then one has to watch 30 minutes of boring video to extract the 15 seconds of what's actually useful in it. Good job Artem did there for sure. Much useful.

[@FireTails357]

When it comes to the Cloth Simulator. You Explained it the Best

[@andreybagrichuk5365]

What an brilliant tutorial, thank you a lot !

[@Ggthb]

2 Years old, yet still great and relevant, one of the best tutorials i have seen regarding this topic.

[@matthewbrady9342]

This answered so many questions. Thank you.

[@YoU61690]

Thank you so much! Your explanation is very clear and straightforward 😄😵‍💫

[@stripedhyenuh]

Now this... this is a tutorial. Goes through every function of cloth simulation and shows some practical uses like sewing, but isn't a "make a shirt" tutorial that only shows a step by step on how to achieve one very specific thing that the viewer probably didn't even want to make anyway. I actually understand HOW cloth simulation works after watching this video and I can start making whatever I want

[@bjpcorp]

Awesome explainer, loved the technique for sewing the seams! 13:43

[@محمدمهدیزال]

Thank you for making such a video;Please make more videos like this, like all the physics parts ->rigid body , force field and else

[@effernando]

Excelent tutorial Artem, It´s a nice mixture of math, physics and software.

[@jock4803]

You're a god, keeping this as a manual to keep looking back at for all future projects, thank you!

[@anushriadhikary3985]

This is the best cloth simulation video I've come across, thanks mate.

[@Hewlga]

very informative, you did a lot of work and it was very helpful ❤

[@Azeal]

PERFECT tutorial, thank you so much!

[@kritzstudio]

The best tutorial on the subject, thank you very much for your time in making this video so well explained and sharing such valuable information!

[@dianehansen5552]

At the moment there's 4 dislikes. Only once in 20 years of watching KZbin have I seen a site that had no dislikes. What is it with some people? This video is well done. Thank you.

[@HanSolocambo]

Thumbs down are often from people who don't know how to use a search engine, end up in the wrong place, and express their dumb frustration before moving back to whatever they were looking for.

[@learning3d742]

This video is worth gold! Super cool 👍

[@mobinvaryan7196]

really good tutorial thanks

[@lamtruong8740]

Thank you for taking time to do this!

[@jaredcrown5812]

Thank you, Subscribed!!

[@FalconWingz88]

this is the video i've been looking for !

[@nuke2625]

Thanx a lot brother. The work youve done is commendable.

[@mercy1441]

Incredible tutorial

[@nox9079]

Good video! Very useful

[@GabrielSoaresALife]

This video is every thing that i needed. Thanks very much.

[@trafficface]

Thank you!!!

[@MsPortia12]

Super helpful visuals for all the settings, thank you!

[@androidgames2930]

Useful video,keep it up

[@jpgninja]

THANK YOU. Really good content. you get my SUB!

[@kalmodoom]

This is a very good tutorial! Thank you!

[@gutozardy]

i needed to create another list in my KZbin account for this tutorial: Essential tutorialsThank you.

[@GAURAVSINGH-ez5oe]

i learned lot of things through this tut thnx uh so much sir from INDIA

[@thevfxartist8848]

Helped soo much. THANKS!

[@mo7sin711]

thanks, im trying to sim a window curtain blowing, everything worked fine except by frame 150 the curtain freezes in the air -_-

[@redaboucetta4693]

wow, i love you man that explaination explain more than F1 .

[@kayreb]

why didnt i find this video sooner...would have saved me about ten hours or frustration :,)

[@benyafezstudio]

Thanks!

[@studiovega5052]

you should do more ! and you should have more subscribers!

[@РоманНестеренко-ж5ы]

Thank you very much. Very interesting and informative about tissue simulation in 3D blender!

[@daynight4233]

Subscribed for all details🤟

[@nategreyson6014]

dude finally someone. thanks!!

[@mariocasallas]

Thanks a lot, it´s the first tutorial that actually explains all the parameters of the cloth simulation. Life saver !!!

[@michaelbendavid777]

thanks for the tutorial, please make more!!...

[@leonkrimov6955]

Thank you very much for such a great and detailed explanation.

[@bee3D]

wow insanely good tutorial you should make a patreon or something

[@edwardodavinci55]

Thank you very much! This is very helpful :D

[@HanSolocambo]

Those explanations of physical properties are very well paced and illustrated. Thanks a lot for the time you spent rehearsing and properly video compositing all that. Very, very useful ;)

[@allyve4200]

WOW. best so far

[@jjjj-ul5jq]

really helps me out ！！！

[@michelberg9649]

Super ce tuto Merci

[@BlenderVision]

I had absolutely no clue that there where cloth presets. Thank you for this tutorial :D

[@petrholusa5855]

Wonderful explainer.... I wish whole help documentation would be like this!

[@jonah712]

im trying to make a cloth that rests over an object on the floor - i've played around with all these attributes and added collision to all the objects i want it to rest on however the cloth keeps bouncing up and moving off of the objects+floor rather than just falling and staying there. Any idea how i can stop this? I've been trying for ages! Thanks :)

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! This issue might happen by various reasons. They could be: flipped faces, small scale, not enough geometry, not enough friction, collision distance is too high, too complex simulation, ect.

[@jinmunsuen]

Thanks for this in-depth view on the cloth sim settings. It's so useful right now because I'm trying to learn Blender as a Maya user :)

[@ngelitea2539]

very detailed explanation! thanks a lot

[@tomfanman8785]

Thank you so much for this! excellent job

[@electricpictures100]

Absolutely Brilliant!

[@MrGravicaper]

Hello! Please tell me how to make the simulation of the fabric default on the desired frame.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! Could you, please, be more specific? Anyway, you'll have to bake the whole simulation up to that frame.

[@MrGravicaper]

@@artemtovbaz8452 Thanks for the answer! Probably the automatic translation was incorrect. I'll try to write in more detail so that you can guess from the context. I'm simulating stylized hair geometry with cloth. I need to start the simulation from the first frame. But the hair (clothes simulation) has not yet had time to fall on the shoulders and take the desired shape. They take this shape around frame 60. I want the hair shape at frame 60 to be ready for simulation at frame 1. Maya has a handy feature - negative frames. I could set the frame to -60 and by the first frame I would already have the geometry ready to simulate clothes for rendering. I found a forced solution - move the animation 60 frames to the right so that the hair has time to fall. But it seems there is an option in Blender to make such a frame the default. Although maybe I'm wrong and this refers to the effect of the destruction of geometry.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

As far as I understand your issue, you could simulate your cloth mesh until it gets the desired shape and apply cloth simulation, then start a new cloth simulation at frame 1. but if you need to start a simulation at any other frame, just set the first frame for bake property in cloth simulation modifier. @@MrGravicaper

[@MrGravicaper]

@@artemtovbaz8452 The problem is that when I apply the simulation, for some reason the hair is detached from the body. Although I pinned them with a pin. Let me remind you that the simulation of clothes is in fact - the hair is a stylized cartoon geometry. I thought that there is an option - to make the shape of the hair that suits me (on frame 60) as a default and from it, as from the first frame, start the simulation, which will go to the render. I'll try to understand your advice, thank you very much for the answer. If it doesn't work out, I'll just move the fbx frames simulating a timeline shift like in Maya.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

I guess if the hair is a separate mesh, and you apply the simulation, it becomes a regular mesh. So it might be that you need to re-attach it and start a new simulation, or find a better solution for attaching it for the first time. Sorry, if I'm missing the point)@@MrGravicaper

[@FManuel_digital]

Thank you for this tutorial. Great tutorial.

[@c.johnson8143]

awesome thanks

[@joannawilczynska2560]

Thank you for this tutorial! Its really helpful.

[@thomasfessler1109]

thanks sharing it

[@scallopy7546]

Thank you so much! I just learned about the cloth simulation tab and didn't understand it that well. But thanks to your tutorials I can say I understand it a little bit more

[@christophercrowell7263]

13:37 Did you skip a step? I made the shirt front and back, checked normals, did the bridge edge loops thing, and tried baking, but it didn't snap together like yours did. It just fell to the earth unsewn.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

It might be that you didn't check Sewing in Shape tab

[@EliasDaoud]

Amazing, thanks

[@Calebm90]

Thank you for this

[@channelname8623]

i wonder what they did with the pressure factor setting. its no longer in the same place.

[@anjoomfaisal]

this is really detailed and youre really knowledgeable. thanks a lot for your time and effort it helps a lot people.

[@gottagowork]

I have managed after considerable trouble to create my own ringed curtain. My real curtain is folded at the top where the rings are (and also at the bottom and sides), which I assume provide additional stiffness/integrity to keep the rings and to prevent fabric threads to come apart. I used hooks to control the position of each ring along the pole - first extending out (closed curtains) then contracting back in (open curtains), with the pole and window/wall as collision objects. Rings were flat part of the curtain mesh with a bumpmap to give the impression of curvature but causes topology issues. I didn't model the edge folds. Question; how would you go about simulating such a curtain in order to get bends but at the same time preventing the top part above the rings from falling over on itself? I ended up putting the top verts in a separate vertex group and using the various extras at the bottom, but it does create visible kinks that I'm not happy with. For the pole collision to work I had to scale it up a huge amount to prevent explosions. In a lot of tutorials people are happy with the material completely folding over back on itself. So yeah, how'd you do it? An example of the structure: loftystyles.com/wp-content/uploads/Metallic-Waterfall-Curtains-Set-of-2-Shimmery-Jacquard-Semi-Sheer-Curtain-Panels-Pair-Grey.jpg

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! Sometimes it makes sense to go around using cloth simulation only, especially if you just need a static image. I would simplify the process as much as possible, if using cloth simulation was too elaborated decision for this task. I would make the folds like shown in many other curtain tutorials, then simply booled the holes and added the rings. I believe the process should be more abstract as it is done in a virtual environment, so keep it simple, model when necessary, combine methods. Sometimes I pre-model the shape of my cloth piece and then go for cloth simulation. It is also a good idea to use cloth simulation after cloth simulation in some cases, as well.

[@gottagowork]

​@@artemtovbaz8452 The steps I ended up with that I think I'll stick with is: 1. Model the hole and surrounding cloth, but do it at much higher scale to avoid collision issues with the pole. This "have to scale" thing is one of my pet hates with Blender. 2. Extrude the top once and the bottom as many times as needed to get the length. 3. Assign material to fabric and ring, and UV the ring as a strip of quads filling the full UV space. Fake bulge be U or V axis. 4. Assign ring verts to a pin group, possibly include the fabric above it as well for the simplest method to avoid it folding over itself. 5. Extrude the fabric sideways, clone and rotate as needed to get a full section with 60 deg rotated holes, then array the whole thing. Copy the object at this point for configurational changes. 6. Apply the array and merge, then delete the parts outside the holes. 7. Select by material the fabric (only). Then UV the fabric and fill the entire UV space. This allows use of simple UV math to fake fold borders in the material (if U0.98 then fold material etc). 8. Select pin verts and hide the rest. Ctrl+h to create hook, R to repeat for each ring section. 9. Create loc+rot keyframe for all the hooks. Repeat for extended and contracted parts. 10. Add the hanging pole as a separate collision object in the middle of the now angled holes, no friction. This is not for the rings, but for the cloth to not fold across the pole. Add wall and floor collision objects as needed. 11. Add cloth modifier and run the simulation. Might want to add a little bit of randomness to the fabric first. 12. As for shading of a see-through curtain, I go with around 80/20 Diffuse/Translucency with hole mask Transparency (with view angle considerations to account for no thickness) for the main fabric and only Diffuse for the borders. I stay away from Principled as it doesn't have any diffuse transmission properties. 13. If needed, some preferred method for sculping in additional folds and details.

[@artemtovbaz8452]

@@gottagowork Thanks for sharing your method! You could make a video tutorial out of it ;) I hope it come in handy for other artists.

[@gottagowork]

​@@artemtovbaz8452 Yeah, that's now my modified approach; plane circle for the "flat ring", extruded into surrounding geometry. Apply an array and animate hooks to control the rings which are also the pins. Goes from flat to folded, then back to extended but now with varying angles and positions. Bake the cloth, grab a few interesting frames as shape keys and get rid of the cloth modifier. Touch up as needed, particularly you want to be able to see through the rings. Any of these shape keys will now be the basis for more intricate cloth simulations involving collisions, wind etc, where the top part is weight painted pin. If you need solid rings, you can copy the faces out by material and extrude them in both directions. I'm curious, does anyone else use a hint of Translucency shader mixed in, on curtains? Here is a see-through curtain that also provides shadows on the backside - which means it would also bleed colors into the room: c0.wallpaperflare.com/preview/186/922/321/united-states-chantilly-window-shadow.jpg Subsurface scattering (Principled) with solidify does not light up the room, only the curtain.

[@khalatelomara]

this tutorial is a gem😎 , for the last part about applying the modifier , you can just right click and convert the mesh and you are good 😁, I know it wasn't that direct back then but it was available option in object submenu above

[@vamshikrishna4477]

My cloth is showing its properties only for sometime ..it is not working for full frames

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! Could you be more specific?

[@vamshikrishna4477]

@@artemtovbaz8452 i have used 500 frames .in that the cloth is working only for 230 frames after that it is being a normal plane

[@artemtovbaz8452]

@@vamshikrishna4477 Have you set End frame to 500? Do you bake the simulation?

[@vamshikrishna4477]

@@artemtovbaz8452 ha the animation is 500 like that not baked

[@artemtovbaz8452]

I guess baking the simulation could be a solution.

[@COLMVFAHY]

Can you please comment on the optimal scale and size of a meshes for baking cloth... I ahve noticed that if the mesh is very small the cloth sim will not work - the bigger the mesh the better the sim.. but I'm not sure whats is going on .. because when the mesh is is very big the pins constrain stops working

[@artemtovbaz8452]

I scaled a normal person figure 20 times. I think, it is more than enough ;) it's almost like scaling the default cube 20 times. Try keeping your values within these boundaries and it should be fine.

[@beefeebrillate3688]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@wakegary]

great but run the audio through a limiter or normalize it... very low. fantastic tutorial.

[@HanSolocambo]

Audio is perfect. Your sound system is the issue here.

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

Thank you. good reference

[@ppaayyaamm2]

Fantastic tutorials , Appreciated your effort man , Really really awesome and details in this Master Video Tutorial ! Thank you

[@peacearchitect5476]

thank you so much, it helped me a lot.

[@donrivas8074]

Great in depth tutorial but I have one question hopefully you or somebody can answer this I've been trying to get all my animations to a fine point but keeping the buttons on a jacket or a shirt is a pain in the well you know anyway if you have any suggestions on the matter please I would love to hear about it cause I need my buttons to stay not fall off lol

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! Try parenting buttons to cloth's vertices. Select your cloth. Switch to Edit Mode. Select a group of vertices near one of your buttons. Switch to Object Mode. Select your button then the cloth. Ctrl + P, Set Parent To Vertex (Triangle). This way the button should follow the cloth.

[@PixeLabor]

thank you sooo much!

[@akifan1064]

My cloth folding itself and bouncing for no reason i ticked self collision idk why this happens every time it rellay frustrates me

[@artemtovbaz8452]

It could be Face Normals Orientation or, Scale or, Topology or, Collision Distance or, position of the meshes or, some specific cloth simulation settings.

[@ek5794]

Can you please make a video on how you made two objects?

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! What objects do you mean? Maybe I could explain it in the comments?

[@paxnfacto]

Thank you very much for this video it was a great help! not a solution for me however Because I appear to have something else set wrong because all my clothing and/or soft bodies go up rather than down. I tried using your recommended damping setting, and even set them wildly high and low which made them bounce at different levels but still go primarily up when touching my collision object? any ideas where I should look next? i would love to see my cloth JUST drop own around and object like they do in other videos~!

[@artemtovbaz8452]

Hi! Thanks for the question :) It might be that your objects are too small or you should check the collision settings for both meshes. Your cloth also might be bouncing because it stacks in the collision mesh. Hope it helps ;)

[@paxnfacto]

@@artemtovbaz8452 I re-watched this video and scaled my model and cloth way up and it helped...somewhat. motion is still primarily up however- IF cloth is draping over figure. IF not it crinkles up but drops down??? So it must be something to do with the figure. What does it mean to "stack in the collision mess"?

[@artemtovbaz8452]

@@paxnfacto Sorry for my English ;) I mean it gets stuck in the collision mesh. It usually happens when the simulation isn't precise enough. Try adding quality steps and decreasing Collision value. However, I guess, there is something about the geometry of your meshes. Check face normals orientation, as well. Try with a flat cloth to test your settings.

[@xrarchitect]

You are my hero

[@홍복기-q1t]

감사합니다.😀

[@WaBotix]

very helpfull, thank you

[@fvd14]

Super . thank you very much

[@lazydog6938]

Great!Great!Great!Great!Great!

[@ayoungwolf]

Thank you!