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LinkedIn Learning

Blender: Cloth Simulation

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to simulate cloth, control its appearance, and make it interact realistically with other objects in your scene, using Blender.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. Getting Ready to Use Cloth
  • Overview of cloth tools
  • Understanding physics for better cloth sims
  • The importance of mesh subdivision
2. Simulation Options
  • How to simulate cloth
  • Understanding cloth caches
  • Simulation baking
  • A word of warning about layers
3. Controlling Cloth Behavior
  • Using the cloth presets
  • Quality controls
  • Material controls
  • Damping controls
  • Vertex group creation
  • Animating vertex groups
4. Collisions
  • Setting up collision objects
  • Optimizing collision meshes
  • Working with collisions: Distance
  • Working with collisions: Friction
  • Collision and Self Collision Quality
5. Cloth Extras
  • Applying force fields
  • Using wind absorption
  • Setting up sewing springs
  • Sewing our cloth together
Conclusion
  • What's next?

Taught by

Joel Bradley

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