Cloth on skinned characters

paratras
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Joined: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:01 pm

Cloth on skinned characters

Post by paratras »

What would you recommend for implementing character skinning on a Bullet-based application which will simulate cloth on such skinned characters? Do you know of any open-source library with a highly optimized skinning implementation and with a straightforward connection with Bullet? (I mean a connection which doesn't imply a performance penalty)

Note that it's NOT for a videogame, so I'm talking about medium-sized human models (ie: not low poly, and not high poly either... just something in the middle, like Makehuman models).

I need to simulate cloth on animated skinned characters. I don't need to get an awesome frame rate, because it's not for a videogame... I just need a "reasonable" interactive experience (even a low FPS rate would be OK). Also, I don't need a super-realistic simulation of cloth... just something that looks like cloth and takes into account collisions with the skinned character.

I've been looking for open-source libraries which I could use, and it seems Bullet might be the best choice, although i didn't see any demo with a clothed character.

However, what I still don't know is what would be the best choice for the character skinning lib.

All suggestions welcome!
yaoyansi
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Joined: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:14 pm

Re: Cloth on skinned characters

Post by yaoyansi »

I have the simialar question as yours.
I want to create soft cloth of arbitrary shape.
Any one can give me some suggestions ?
Thanks in advance.