Cloth passing through character with collisions on

[Blender2379]

so i created some pants from a plane through watching a yt tutorial but i couldnt get the pants to shape around the characters legs rather than passing through them. oddly enough, the pants take the characters shape when i run the sim, but remain outside\passing through the legs

am i doing something wrong? i’ve been playing around with the quality steps and inner/outer thickness and not seeing any differences

[RPaladin]

If you have not already, you need to add a collision modifier for your legs to indicate that you want it to behave as a physical object: