Is it possible to set a cloth as an elastic that is already stretched so that when we start the simulation, the cloth shrinks/tightens ?
The idea would be to have an easy way to create cloth by extracting geometry from a body and tighten it.
Why tighten it if it’s already on the skin you ask ?
Because a tighten cloth doesn’t touch the skin everywhere, instead, the fabric tries to have the smallest area, or the strings try to follow the shortest path.
Illustration with this bikini I’m modeling :
This specific part would be easy to fix by hand but some others are more complicate, and the overall look would be more realistic with the elastic cloth simulation.
And we can have more complex clothes. First to pop in my mind :
Imagine :
- extract geometry from body
- grow it so that i doesn’t touch the skin
- start simulation
and boom here’s your cloth !
Is that possible ?