Soft Cloth for Characters

Each iClone standard character contains one or more soft cloth objects. These objects can be the hair, and clothes.
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Editing the Soft Cloth Objects

By default, the hair and the cloth on the characters are already optimized. However, you can load or edit the Weight Map or adjust the settings in the Property, Collision and Wind sections.

1. Apply a standard character, in this case the female character is utilized.
   
2. Make sure the character's cloth is selected.
   
3. Go to the Modify >> Physics tab. Check up the Activate Physics checkbox in the PhysX section.
   
   If there are multiple materials for this cloth, then you will see this dialog box. Click the OK button.
   
4. The Edit Weight Map panel will show.
   
5. Select the target material from the list to pick the dress of the character.
   
   
   Note:

   • You can also use the eyedropper tool and then click on the dress to pick the target material for further editing.
   • Click the Physics Material List Setting to show and hide materials in the list.
     
   • If you do not select a material in this panel, then the settings in the Modify >> Physics tab will not be enabled.
   • The Diffuse thumbnail will display the diffuse texture map for your material.
6. Adjust the Weight Map image.
   
   
   Note:

   Please refer to the following section for more information about the use of Weight Map image.

   • Setting Soft Weight with a Weight Map
   • Loading Weight Map
   • Editing Weight Map
7. Follow the steps in each section to adjust other properties in the Property, Collision and Wind Setting sections.
8. Play back to view the result (the edited skirt changes to a different texture and drapes downward slightly more).
   
9. You can repeat the same steps for setting the soft-cloth effect for other cloth material.