How to create Cloth Simulations Faster | Geometry Nodes | Blender

[@sherrifno6046]

you could also just change teh subdivision surface modidier can't you?

[@AriaFaithJones]

Yes you can, but using this method opens up more procedural options. I will be posting a new tutorial this week showing some of the advantages of using this method 💕

[@sanyi9667]

she doesn't delete the default cube, she lifts it up

[@johand3114]

Don't use less subdivisions before baking because unlike marvelous designer which calculates the mass of the fabric by surface area blender uses vertex mass which leads to different results with every subdivision you add so when you're happy with the results divide the mass by 4 each time you subdivide

[@bluebaconjake405]

I guess it really depends on the usage and situation. If its for fashion design then maybe you need more precise cloth simulations. But if the simulation is used for a single element in an animation then precision and accuracy might not be important

[@Moove_Studio]

Yeah, never quite understood why blender uses mass per vertex vs. the more intuitive mass per surface calculation...

[@RareAmv]

Maybe a stupid question, that only applies if subdivision is done before the cloth sim modifier correct?

[@darrennew8211]

@@RareAmv Yes. The cloth simulation is going to simulate cloth using whatever verts are in the mesh at that point in the modifier stack.

[@anomalyraven]

Thank you so much for this tip! I'm working from home now during Christmas, on a rig with lower specs than the computer at the office, and this really speeds up the work-flow efficiency when I'm iterating my cloth sims.

[@AriaFaithJones]

You’re welcome! So happy this was helpful. I’ve created an update to this tutorial as well! 💕 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpqkcp2dg6Z-fcU

[@projectfuturistic8774]

thnx Aria it's very helpful. We can focus on tutorials since ur voice is very soothing.

[@ManaLucune]

Your voice is subdividing my heart 💓 OMG I love hearing you so much ❤

[@seanaugustinemarch1]

Wow, this was such a succinct and useful tutorial.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank u! Really happy you enjoyed it! 💕

[@iam.2022]

Thank you Aria for this great tutorial

[@Rainbowsaur]

Learnt alot from this, I'm beginner and it was very easy to understand. Thank you

[@AriaFaithJones]

So happy it was helpful! 💕

[@СергейДобрый-е7ю]

I don't mean to be rude, but your voice is simply divine!

[@FluxStage]

Shes back! What a great day!

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww 🥰

[@od1367]

Thank you so much! I can't wait to share it!

[@conchabelo]

You are back! So stocked!

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@beefier]

This saved my major work thanks!!

[@yangyang8806]

很喜欢你，也很喜欢你的教程，是我看过最详细的教程。非常非常感谢🙏

[@ChristopherHemsworthCreative]

很高兴看到这么好的评论

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank you! Glad it was helpful 💕

[@koulikdas8133]

Ur Explanations are amazing👏

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank you! 💕🤗

[@MisterBadgerlicious]

Glad you are back. I have found your tutorials helpful for learning Blender and great fun.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Thank you! Happy to be back 💕

[@mmcc2852]

i see you have some good ideas in this video. i recommend you try pinning the active geometry node with the thumbpin icon its not object dfepend, also, if you already have a sphere as the reference point for pinning, you can consider in the geonode, using proximity or vertexposition & sphere position comparison to procedurally assigning vertex group weighht (by storename attribute)

[@milansvancara]

Damn, a girl with blender tutorials. We need more of these, I can be focused longer with more diversity in voice pitch:D

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@JamesMiddletonDesign]

That's a bit personal, don't you think?

[@milansvancara]

@@JamesMiddletonDesign what you mean?:) I honestly meant what I've said, when you watch many blender guides and videos in a row, a voice pitch change really makes you concentrate more:)

[@gamestylestudio5408]

10 years ago we had to learn how cloth behaves, all by hand to draw it or sculpt it, we sure are obsolete now

[@andrew87773]

Useful tutorial 👌

[@AriaFaithJones]

Thank u so much! 💕

[@KUBE.archvis]

Great idea!

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕💕💕

[@EduardoCardozo3D]

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial! Love your videos!

[@AriaFaithJones]

You’re welcome! 💕🤗

[@paczkowoz327]

Great tutorial!

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank you! 💕🤗

[@rmzn4756]

Thank you. We love you so much

[@sndosc]

Great tut!

[@AriaFaithJones]

Thank you! 💕

[@stefanguiton]

great tutorial, super useful

[@AriaFaithJones]

Thank you! 💕

[@bigmagictent]

Thank you so much😊

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗💕

[@frankiechow4129]

Thank you, it was interesting and helpful. I am new to the channel, not sure if the use of word "and" was on purpose. Just wanted to say its a lot of "and" in 11 mins

[@daniellee6912]

Blender ASMR, nice

[@AriaFaithJones]

Yes! 💕

[@holapro8780]

Great!, Thank you

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@ksusha1881]

Спасибо ☺️ THANK YOU 😊

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕💕💕

[@byriopex1779]

Looks like an ASMR video.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Definitely 💕

[@jeffreylee4208]

That doesn't actually take it faster 😅. Is faster just because you used less subdivision + you can basically achieve the same result with a subdivision modifier before the cloth sim (no need for a geometric node setup).

[@quentindouasbin5136]

My thought exactly

[@arcangeel4828]

indeed... lol

[@vanessapagano6462]

love ur tutorual! but why u dont finish it? like now i am struggling with the animation :(

[@yangyang8806]

thank u

[@axa122]

I'm pretty new to geometry nodes so this is a very user-friendly tutorial :)

[@zhang9508]

so good

[@AriaFaithJones]

Thank you! 💕

[@NakedSageAstrology]

Thank you.

[@AriaFaithJones]

You’re welcome 💕

[@fejimotion]

What the angel voice? like a feather slowly floating

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@sander-wit]

Any idea how to pin multiple verticles that can be animated individually? Your mothod only allows for 1 pin group. I haven't found a good way to achieve this.

[@WaveFrame]

use hook objects, just select the vertices and press, CTRL+H in edit mode.

[@relaxingpoint6264]

I watched your tutorial and try it by myself but I have facing an issue of cloth overlapping & it doesn't matter how many times I retry it but at some point i have to deal with same issue I try solidify modifier, Subdivision, even size increasing but stuck with the same. Can you help me out on this.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Make sure to add self collisions to the cloth sim💕

[@mja3622]

hey Aria. Do you kow if it's possible to export animation with geo nodes to Unreal?

[@AriaFaithJones]

Im pretty sure there is an addon you can use to import geometry nodes into Unreal. I remember looking into it at one point but never actually used it. I think it is called Altermesh 💕

[@calmstorm666]

what stops you from just putting subfiv modifier before sim instead of geo nodes ?

[@AriaFaithJones]

You can! Also a great way to do it. Just trying to give everyone more familiar with Geometry Node set ups 💕

[@19CarlosGomez64]

It seems that Geometry Nodes have come to stay! GN are a powerful tool! Thanks for your very clear tutorial Aria.

[@lyrebird712]

I am relatively new to geometry nodes, but isn't there a way to modify the vertex group within the nodes? If so then wouldn't it be possible to use the icosphere (or any intersecting object[s]) to dynamically calculate the pin groups by boolean operations? The setup would be a bit more involved, but would then allow for driving cloth sims from rigid bodies. I think I am going to toy around with this for a shower curtain or something. Edit: (from my later comment) Using the new "Store Named Attribute" node in Blender 3.2.0 I was able to modify the vertex groups. It's a minorly convoluted process involving two separate mesh booleans (a difference and an intersect) and two merge operations (one to flatten the intersection and the other to properly merge the overlapping geometry after joining). Simply apply a value of 2 to the store named attribute node before the geometry join and it works! I used a value of 2 because it gets but in half on some vertices after the join. Going over 1 doesn't seem to affect the pin group so I used 2.

[@AlienXtream1]

geometry nodes gets a bit stouborn and unintuitive if you want to get some types of information out of it but for sure there should be a way to get it to behave, even if you have to mess around with some hacky things to do it. its much more oriented towrds bringing things in and jsut outputting a raw mesh

[@lyrebird712]

@@AlienXtream1 I've found where I can *read* the vertex groups, but not dynamically *write* to them. That's rather frustrating, but I'm pretty sure it can be done via python. If it can be done then this might be a really cool plugin opportunity to just use some boolean helper shapes to dynamically drive cloth sims. Done properly it might even be compatible with non-native simulators. More research to do! lol

[@lyrebird712]

Using the new "Store Named Attribute" node in Blender 3.2.0 I was able to modify the vertex groups. It's a minorly convoluted process involving two separate mesh booleans (a difference and an intersect) and two merge operations (one to flatten the intersection and the other to properly merge the overlapping geometry after joining). Simply apply a value of 2 to the store named attribute node before the geometry join and it works! I used a value of 2 because it gets but in half on some vertices after the join. Going over 1 doesn't seem to affect the pin group so I used 2.

[@AriaFaithJones]

That’s so cool! I will definitely look into that!! Thank you for the tip! 💕🤗

[@palpytine]

Sure. In 3.1 you can send it to a group output then assign that to the vertex group in the geonodes property editor. In 3.2 you can use a "store named attribute" node. The subdivide operation will have interpolated weights for the newly created vertices, so you can also do a bit of maths to take any less-than-one interpolated value and set it to zero.

[@yunkhngn]

Nice cute voice, keep going

[@jonhjosephperez]

my cloth is not touching the collision object how to fix this?

[@lordew9476]

my asian jesus, this is magick!

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@drformalyst5222]

Thank you for the tutorial, but I really don't understand why you use Geometry Nodes here, just to have subdivision?!

[@gregorybennings8718]

I was wondering the same thing. I don't see the point of all this.

[@DelaEdits]

hey Aria great tutorial ! anyway we can get a looping cloth sim like a cape or something ?

[@AriaFaithJones]

Yes! I’ll make a tutorial for it 🥰💕

[@Educationdevelopmentcoaching]

Please make biology physics modals vedos

[@EROSNERdesign]

fun

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗

[@venom5926]

How to promote my works aria?

[@AriaFaithJones]

Post everywhere you can! That is how I got this channel going when I began 💕 Twitter, insta, TikTok, Reddit, art station etc 💕🤗

[@venom5926]

@@AriaFaithJones Kindly check DMs in Instagram!!

[@SanOcelotl]

You should explain a litle bit more what somethings do, at some points you just say, set this to that, that can be kind of confusing for blender beginers

[@Meowzed]

i cant get the animation to loop i can understand that

[@AriaFaithJones]

Check out this tutorial on how to do a cloth loop 💕🤗 How to make a Perfectly Looping Cloth Simulation with Geometry Nodes | Blender kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6qYgnuQoNSYoKc

[@Meowzed]

@@AriaFaithJones thanks for the geometry nodes content your so good at explaining

[@shivateja9417]

Ow my god your voice is super sweet 😍❤️

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank you! 💕🤗

[@MrDiav]

I really want to watch this video, but I’m struggling because the voice is very high-pitched and whispery. Is this an AI-generated voice? If it’s your natural voice, I’m so sorry-I don’t mean to say it’s bad, but I’m having a hard time focusing. Even with subtitles on, it’s not helping since KZbin’s automatic captions aren’t that great. Scrolling through the comments, I realize it might just be me, but there must be others who feel this way too. I felt I had to tell you because you seem so talented, and I really want to learn from your content

[@王震宇-e7x]

oh my hart。。。。so sweet voice！！！！！melting。。。。

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww 💕🤗

[@ктото-п4е5т]

But.. you could ve used subdivision modifier🧐

[@AriaFaithJones]

Yes that is a different way to do it! Just trying to get people used to using geometry nodes 💕🤗

[@prokreative]

Ich Liebe dich und Will ein Kind :D

[@aollepiacegiocare8566]

is it just me or does she say the word "and" a lot in this video? no hate , nice Tutorial

[@AriaFaithJones]

Lol 💕

[@fredriklunde4218]

what? just use subdivision modifier before cloth sim. No need to use geo nodes for this.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Yes you can also do that! Eventually a lot of Blender will be node based, so it’s always good to learn new simple techniques 💕

[@modalize]

luv ya

[@AriaFaithJones]

💕🤗💕

[@Cryunreal]

voice is cute

[@AriaFaithJones]

Aww thank u! 🤗💕

[@rishugupta9431]

is this a ASMR video? This have to be ASMR Video.

[@AriaFaithJones]

Lol lots of people would agree, just my vibe 💕🤗

[@hartdr8074]

Why are you whispering? Do you make tutorials while hiding from someone in your house?

[@AriaFaithJones]

Haha 😂

[@hartdr8074]

@@AriaFaithJones JK, I actually enjoyed learning from this tutorial I didn't think about the process on using geom nodes for cloth sims but yeah maybe speak a bit louder, I feel like I have to put on a blanket over my head and hold a flashlight while I watch this tutorial :D

[@kundaimhonda9803]

Thank you great tut....but please STOP saying "AND" SO D*MN MUCH

[@AriaFaithJones]

Lol I often think about this comment when I’m editing 😅

[@KIFDRAKON]

Good night. The voice sounds very interesting and beautiful. You also tell interesting stories with feeling, with good knowledge of the matter. The off-screen music is infuriating, there is already no strength. so no likes.))