Deforce question. Parts of clothing not effected by deForce.

ermaunez

Hello there,

How can I get deforce to be added to the part of the clothing that isn't interacting with the simulation? I'm relatively new to Daz and my knowledge on this is still at baby-steps.  Is it even possible?

Thanks,

EJRM.

Richard Haseltine

There are a couple of ways that parts of an outfit might be made resistant to dForce. If the area has its own surface (try hovering over it with the Surface selection tool, from the Tools menu, and see what highlights) then it might have its dynamic strength lowered, or another setting adjusted; here that may be true for the waistband. In this case I think it's more likely that a weight map is being used for the main part of the skirt at least. To edit a weight map you need to add a dForce Weight node from the Create menu, then activeate the Node Weightmap Brush tool from the Tools menu and the the Tool Settings pane look to see if theer are any active maps; if there is one for dForce Influence then select it and you can use a couple of steps to aply dForce across the whole skirt - right-click>Geoemtry Selection>Select All, then right-click>Weight Editing>Fill Selected and give it a value of 100%.

Bear in mind that some areas may be excluded for a reason - for example, the geometry around the waist bane may be so dense that the default  Dynamic Offset is longer than the actual separation, leading to the simulation pumping more and more energy into the simulation until the cloth explodes.

ermaunez

Marvalous! Thank you so much for the detail instructions on how to get this to work. I keep in mind that last note you worte. Some of the belt straps geometeries flew off the waist band. Thankfully, no explosions.

Thank you,

EJRM