Create Believable Cloth With These Three Easy Features in Blender

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Cloth can be pretty tough to get right in Blender... In this video let's explore three easy features that can make the cloth simulation pipeline bend and fold with ease. 😅 👇
Learn all about sculpting fabric using clay in this course from CG Cookie: b3d.cgcookie.com/clay-fabric-yt
You can also learn how to paint realistic fabric wrinkles and folds in this short course: b3d.cgcookie.com/shade-fabric-yt
If you have dared to explore the cloth physics properties available in Blender, you are likely
aware of just how many buttons, sliders, and numbers are involved in working with cloth
simulations.
While there are a lot of small-scale tweaks that you can make to things such as the
air viscosity and mass of the cloth, there really is limited out-of-the-box control for how you can
interact with your simulation from a dynamic standpoint. You’ll find endless use-cases to fold
and drape cloth, but very little in the way of tools to get that done.
In this video, we unlock your cloth-control by exploring three small features that when used
together can exercise great influence over the manipulation and design of your fabrics. By
keeping things simple, we are going to enable ourselves to develop interesting cloth designs all
in realtime, making tweaks incredibly fast and efficient!
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@jupiterloverful 3 жыл бұрын

This guy (specifically) touches on how great empties and constraints are, and the tricks he introduced in this video and the chain links one are making my mouth waters in anticipation for a course about such stuff.

@user-vo6fd6gg6i 3 жыл бұрын

I used to make those shirring-like wrinkles by manually placing seams! I'm glad that I've found this video.

@michaelsmusicinstruments9980 3 жыл бұрын

that is realy cool, 2 min work great effect. I can still remember the first blender curtain tutorial I saw, that was 30 minutes, nice result but many artifacts. from now on i will use this method, thank you!

@ireneahlberg7491 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing! Just what I needed now to make a wrinkled lamp lamp screen. And I think constraints with cloth will be a great help for many of the things I want to do with cloth and so far failed with. Also want to say I appreciate the way you explain and the way you divided your tutorial into sections. Thank you!

@grabbitt 3 жыл бұрын

very nice

@exoticwasp-_-5393 3 жыл бұрын

@Dennis Adrian bro we know its you on a second account lmao you used a second account with the same letter for the fist name and last name just sad lmao

@atharvavankundre4942 2 жыл бұрын

@@exoticwasp-_-5393 lmao

@atharvavankundre4942 2 жыл бұрын

Stop trollin grant is the best

@atharvavankundre4942 2 жыл бұрын

Love you Grant

@mark0grantgrolo644 3 жыл бұрын

Great description, details, let vortex flow. Moving free!

@alexdang 3 жыл бұрын

thanks man! I like the way how come and precise to explain stuff

@MsMidnightStories 3 жыл бұрын

The good thing with all quads is you can reconstruct the lower levels in Zbrush and bake the hires details !

@ATAVMJPRO Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial, can't wait to see more.

@seanposkea 3 жыл бұрын

I literately gasped at the swag example shown in the last few seconds of the video. Can't wait to try that myself.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Digital fabrics was truly your calling! :D

@seppsowas 3 жыл бұрын

I always used shapekeys transforming the pinned vertices to get exactly this effect. But this approach is a interesting alternative.

@seppsowas 3 жыл бұрын

@Alexander B It doesnt work "live". you have to animate the shapekey.

@jonau1237 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial thanks!

@MakerJake101 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, Chunck!

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

And thank you for watching! -Chunck :)

@gpsradar. 2 жыл бұрын

im a little confused in how he was able to move the cloth and have it react real time whenever i hit space to play i can no longer edit my objects dimensions

@eztutor823 3 жыл бұрын

Really awesome basica tutorial!!

@deadpoolbr0 2 жыл бұрын

solid tutorial, thank you!

@carbonanimationproductions6537 Жыл бұрын

needed this! tysm!

@jecosci 3 жыл бұрын

By far the best cloth sim tutorial

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend! I hope it serves you well! -Chunck :)

@memmory9620 Жыл бұрын

thank you

@blenderconch 3 жыл бұрын

Super useful!

@ribji 3 жыл бұрын

Really Good Tut. Thanks....

@krlnasfuck 2 жыл бұрын

thank you guy!!!!

@cekuhnen 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant technique !

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks Claas! Makes cloth so much more manageable. -Chunck :)

@lukas_g243 3 жыл бұрын

Nice I like the free materials

@lbesiroglu 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@jamiefurey564 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@mahabbat1960 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, as always great, thanks)

@dominiusmaverick1854 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@3dfynn427 3 жыл бұрын

great job！

@learning3d742 3 жыл бұрын

Sooo cool!

@JdEntertainmentvlog 3 жыл бұрын

thank you nice tutorial.....

@mbanksy7649 3 жыл бұрын

amazing!!

@login11111 3 жыл бұрын

This is god.......you saved my day,thank you so much!!

@nicep83 2 жыл бұрын

excellent and useful

$@fractaltutors$

@fractaltutors 3 жыл бұрын

marvelous keep its kingdom

@michaelberna987 2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet CG cookie likes baking frames and simulations.

@krizzy090 Жыл бұрын

this still is usefull thanks

@Manuellaborer 3 жыл бұрын

awesome!

@breezstudio9630 3 жыл бұрын

Cool trick ❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@atlucasfc Жыл бұрын

amazing

@benvanderleen7881 3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a tutorial on how to make realisic free texture for landscape elements?

@NigDub 2 жыл бұрын

Hey CG Cookie, I am looking for a way to make a sort of circular drape. Any tips?

@Shadowdarknessone 3 жыл бұрын

can the cloth react with object simulations like water?i mean. If you have a rubber cloth does it stretch or wrinkel if you pour water on it?

@TommyLikeTom 3 жыл бұрын

thanks homie. I still use marvelous designer for cloth because I don't know how to make a curtain tie interact with the curtain in a satisfactory way in blender

@arthurking3450 3 жыл бұрын

Nice👍

@blenderinthegrass 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! I have a question, though. Once you have the simulation at the point where you want it, how do you make it static? I want to make curtains for a scene in a separate file, but I want the curtains to stay the same as they are on say, frame 90 of the simulation and not change anymore.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Once you pause the animation, you'll be able to sift through cached frames to see what the simulation looks like at each frame. However, to make it truly a static mesh, you will need to apply the Cloth modifier in your modifier stack. I normally just do "Mesh>Convert To>Mesh from Curve" in my 3D viewport buttons because it applies all my modifiers for me. If you only apply the Cloth modifier but you have others, it may give u weird results so normally you should apply them all. -Chunck

@blenderinthegrass 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie Thanks so much. I knew it was simple, but my head just wasn't thinking the right way!

@remon563 2 жыл бұрын

awesome technique but why does it not work when simulating over a collision object (like a clothing line?)

3 жыл бұрын

Why does the simulation doesn't react the same with this method versus just scaling the cloth object on the x axis? What is the difference between constraint scaling and regular scaling?

@myztazynizta 3 жыл бұрын

This whole thing feels linke an unreliable unintended side effect. Hooking verts to empties or rigging them to bones seems like a more natural sounding way this might be done.

3 жыл бұрын

@@myztazynizta Yeah when I saw what he was intending to do I thought we was going to use hooks or bones. I suspect that the constraints system has something different in it's coding since the constraints are also used in armature constrains and deforming. So even if it's the same thing that happens (scaling) it might not come from the same system and not interact in the same way with simulations.

@Yacine3Dz 3 жыл бұрын

I think the difference is when you scale in the normal way you will scale the actual faces of the object so the distance between each vertex will change, but if scale it the way he did using this constraint thing the distance between each vertex will be preserved. That is the only way I could Understand it.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, sorry for the late reply! As was already stated, when we scale the cloth directly, it will uniformly scale down the mesh. However, by using a constraint object on only a few vertices (from our vertex group), I can scale in that row which will preserve the faces of the rest of the mesh, and those ripples/folds will form as a result. Great for making drapes! As well, if you scale a cloth object during an animation, you're likely just going to have a bad time because the simulation won't really know what to do with the scaling of this physics object. -Chunck

@KevinSmith-qi5yn 3 жыл бұрын

I think it has to do with caches being overwritten. When you are scaling an object actively, you are changing it's mesh data and the physics overwrites the object's vertex buffer. When you use a constraint, the objects geometry stays the same while the constraint changes.

@HAWXLEADER 3 жыл бұрын

I used shape keys to do that.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Totally valid way to do it as well! Whatever works. :)

@ShindlerReal 2 жыл бұрын

How does your simulation work so fast in real time?

@googlehatesme1247 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a big CHUNCK of info

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Uh oh, punny-guy alert! -Chunck :D

@googlehatesme1247 3 жыл бұрын

@discotec70 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was useful and interesting. Only one thing. When trying to play the animation (I set 1000 frames) and scaling the reference segment (min 11) the animation itself always stopped at frame 320 more or less. Always at the same point. Any ideas?

@albiceleste101 3 жыл бұрын

up the min frame from 1 to like 50 you can also choose on the physics>cloth how many frames you want to bake under Cache

@user-ir2fu4cx6p 3 жыл бұрын

1:48 That's is Blender secret blackhole .

@vipereaper 2 жыл бұрын

How do you make a cloth not submerge with another object as its falling?

@jowey_2077 3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 3 жыл бұрын

could you have music driving the scale of that line and then have the cloth bouncing a ball like a trampoline?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

There seems to be some functionality to set that up! I don't know how to do it myself, but I have seen people link audio files to object properties. I don't see why not! -Chunck :)

@subwayfixit 3 жыл бұрын

Good

@mrjutsumaster 3 жыл бұрын

I love this but I need a static object (3d printing) any way I can do like this and save the deform on a certain frame?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

For that, I'd do the same steps taken in this video to get the simulation set up, let the simulation cache and then sift through the frames until I find what I like. From there, I would just go to Object > Convert to Mesh and you should have a freeze frame mesh of whatever frame you are currently on! -Chunck :)

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

or on modifiers tab hit apply for the cloth modifier and any others you have used. I use a subsurf of 1 before the cloth and a subsurf of 3 after the cloth.

@jonathanxdoe 3 жыл бұрын

The most basic error is to use quad based subdivision. You ALWAYS want to subdivide with tris with random pattern while project or preserve the UVs. Take a look at any other plugin/program that deals with cloth simulation

@smow7422 3 жыл бұрын

Why is it an error? It works perfectly fine.

@TheEnderRenderer 3 жыл бұрын

John doe

@albiceleste101 3 жыл бұрын

@@smow7422 sims with tris look more natural (and also could be faster to bake and run? since videogames use tris?)

@cevxj 3 жыл бұрын

wow, thanks! it actually looks like cloth now, instead of a sci-fi membrane

@vrihaspati110 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it. But how will I convert it to low poly in order to use it in game engine?

@0x8080FF 3 жыл бұрын

Decimate modifier works pretty well for stuff like this. Then you can try baking a normal map from the original high poly version to the low poly to get some of the details back.

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

many video tuts on this - look it up for best explanation.

@code_monkey_steve 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't a single-arrow empty make for a better control than a line object?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Depends on your preference, but I could totally see scenarios where that would be preferable! -Chunck :)

@Gaz_Game 3 жыл бұрын

Can you use this for clothing on game ready assets?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

You would want to be careful how much topology you are providing it, if it's going into a game, but I don't see why not! -Chunck

@Gaz_Game 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie Thanks! The plan is to drape a tall character with a cloak of sorts so hopefully all goes well

@jeffhahn5799 2 жыл бұрын

Love this tutorial! Not sure why when I press play my cloth doesn't fall though? Anyone have a clue?

@Virtual-caveman 2 жыл бұрын

yea, sometimes that just happens. It happened to me and I just created a new scene, then it worked fine. Dunno the reason though.

@mohammedzain7785 3 жыл бұрын

Can i use this for curtain

@thefynn 3 жыл бұрын

you can, but remember that with this method, the top edge will be straight. so if it should look like the curtin is on a rod, that goes through holes in the curtain, you have to use something else.

@alvaromafiol7050 3 жыл бұрын

My quad-core PC thanks you

@mg6554 3 жыл бұрын

Hello i love your work get up

@mg6554 3 жыл бұрын

You are the best for ever

@Mr_Steve3D Жыл бұрын

All of the instructors for CG keep saying "this guy" "that guy" Canada? great tut though!

@gianluca3131 3 жыл бұрын

Very good video. I'm struggling to pin my cloth to my animated character. I create a vertex group, check the pinning option in cloth simulation and parent the cloth with my model like it's written in the documentation, but the cloth remains pinned to the beginning point and doesn't follow my character. Can someone help me, please?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

I've never tried actually parenting it to something else before, but I get the sense that it may be what's giving you trouble. What I would try is actually joining the cloth mesh to the character mesh, rather than parenting it because the parent relation ship may not be appropriately translating the cloth to match the character during the simulation (is my guess) and so it just floats at the start. -Chunck :)

@gianluca3131 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie ok, first off, thanks a lot for the advice. But just to be sure since I'm a complete noob when you say "join" you mean ctr+j to merge the cloth and the character together? Because when I do that the cloth loses the simulation and stays froze anyway (i tried pinning and not pinning with the same result). Well probably I'm skipping some other important operation i don't know :D, thanks again.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

@@gianluca3131 Yep, you got it! But now I am realizing that this method wouldn't actually work... Because when you join them you would require the entire character now also having a cloth simulation. So, that won't work! Make sure you've got the cloth parented to the character and not the other way around. Sorry about that, hope you figure it out! -Chunck :)

@gianluca3131 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie Ahah thank you, have a nice day :)

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@gianluca3131 I'm sure you figured it out - but here's what works for me in Blender 2.91 (like if making a super man cape for example) - I used an "Empty>Plain Axes" object to control the scale of my verts at the top of my curtain, just like in the tutorial above. Set the origin you want for your Curtain/Cape object to be center of bone or geometry you want to use to control the position. Now you would Add a Constraint "Copy Location" to the Cape Object (maybe need to add same type of constraint also for the Plain Axes Empty object, or parent the scale axes to the head object, not sure.) Then you would set Target Object for the Copy Location Constraint to your Neck Bone or Head Bone of your character. Set Target and Owner for the constraint to "Local Space". Now your animation of the Head Bone should drive the position of that Cape Object. Animating the scale object and the position of the head object now effects the Cape Object. In cloth physics I changed Air Viscosity in "Physical Properties" to 5 and it doesn't flop everywhere so much. So viscosity is something to play with. I also set self collisions for the cotton cloth at distance .005 (cape is 2m tall)

@Valitzu777 3 жыл бұрын

"This guy" .... :)

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps I should start giving them names, eh? -Chunck :D

@Valitzu777 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie your tutorials are second to none.. but yes.. this guy MUST become Jane .. or maybe even "April" :)

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

@@Valitzu777 I was thinking Rufus. :D

@Valitzu777 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie Rufus, I like it.. good. Rufus is welcomed and accepted to the CG Cookie family... as for "this guy"... beat it, get outta here.. your vertices aren't welcome around these parts no more..who does "this guy" thing he is!!!??

@jkartz92 3 жыл бұрын

I have an important question to you guys. We need to follow scaling to match with real world scale to achieve best results. But in Blender the cloth and particles and dynamics doesn't work good on real scale value instead it works if the same scene is scaled up to 5 or 10 times. Does this happen to you guys as well?

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

Curtains are basically 2m tall, and I used a 2m tall plane to follow his tutorial and it appears to work pretty well for me.

@DrMerle-gw4wj Жыл бұрын

Copy Constraint begins at 06:38 .

@luigiistratescu2756 3 жыл бұрын

hey, i tried it, but here's what i need to know: how do i make it so that the cloth moves constantly, forever, MAINTAIN THE SAME SHAPE, never reset, so that it looks like a cool banner hanging on a fort

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

enable "Force Field" set Type to "Wind". enjoy

@sobreaver 3 жыл бұрын

That's a juicy Chunk ! Thank you !

@blenderify4508 3 жыл бұрын

Chunck-Chunck!

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

-Chunck :)

@nitrox6841 3 жыл бұрын

why if i press "play" nothing happens?

@3DCGdesign 3 жыл бұрын

open new scene and start over carefully following every step.

@kiffy00 Жыл бұрын

why is this necessary to do for it to work? seems like a bug

@MouthyKnight 3 жыл бұрын

Before I start, is this gonna destroy my laptop?

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

I'd certainly hope not! There really isn't any significant cloth sim going on, so even if it's a little bit older it should still do OK! -Chunck :)

@fahdabdullah4554 3 жыл бұрын

This comment section is more dead than the plane falling into abyss

@animfive 2 жыл бұрын

1:07 - Select the plane. Make sure you're in EDIT MODE - "Right Click" on the plane. That produces the menu that comes out of nowhere.

@rtdietrich 3 жыл бұрын

Good Video, exept the middle part. Your talking is a bit too long streched

@Mir-ed4yz 3 жыл бұрын

Whole video is too stretch imo. I skipped most part of video and still understand what he's trying to say...

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 3 жыл бұрын

5:54 The singular of “vertices” is “vertex”.

@Y2Kvids 3 жыл бұрын

Its not a Bug its a Feature .

@gower1973 3 жыл бұрын

Just use the cloth brush in sculpt mode

@tom_paul_3d 3 жыл бұрын

sometimes the cloth brush doesn't give the results one might want, the options for the brush are still very limited

@albiceleste101 3 жыл бұрын

that's odd, I can only make the scale change when it's at 0 frames edit: I deleted the bake and it worked, you're not supposed to bake it lol

@PoMkAc27 Ай бұрын

Doesn’t work in Blender 4.1

@stingrayt2000 3 жыл бұрын

Qii

@LaunchpadStudios 3 жыл бұрын

5th

@PixellateYT 3 жыл бұрын

Who is here for creating cloth for the couch from Blender Guru tutorial.

@cg_cookie 3 жыл бұрын

Caught me. -Chunck

@PixellateYT 3 жыл бұрын

@@cg_cookie XD

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9 3 жыл бұрын

Blender 2.8- makes various things problematic that were TREMENDOUSLY easier to accomplish in earlier versions of Blender I've used and for seemingly no reason at all.