Round table cloth anywhere?

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• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,550

  September 11

  Y scaled down sphere cut in half using the Geometry editor wouldn't work?
• DoctorJellybean Posts: 10,114

  September 11

  Oh, never thought of that.
• jmucchiello Posts: 2,114

  September 11

  Don't forget to use a high Divisions value so the Dynamic dForce modifier will work. (I always end up using 1 and wondering why dForce isn't working.)
• DoctorJellybean Posts: 10,114

  September 11

  It doesn't seem to work for me, I'll have to try something else.
• barbult Posts: 27,514

  September 12 edited September 12

  What part isn't working? What happened when you tried? Try a plane with a circular opacity map to get more even mesh quads for dForcing. You could use the Geometry Editor capability to rotate triangulation of selected polygons to improve draping smoothness.

  

  

  

  Round Tablecloth from plane with opacity map.jpg

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  Post edited by barbult on September 12
• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,550

  September 12 edited September 12

  while I haven't tried a tablecloth, I have made many circular skirts from edited DAZ sphere primitives

  you cannot edit it after making it a dynamic object though, if you do, you will need to remove that and reapply

  and yes, load the primitive with lots of sections and divisions 

  Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on September 12
• jmucchiello Posts: 2,114

  September 12

  barbult said:

  What part isn't working? What happened when you tried? Try a plane with a circular opacity map to get more even mesh quads for dForcing. You could use the Geometry Editor capability to rotate triangulation of selected polygons to improve draping smoothness.

  It might be helpful if you also posted the before primitive in wire view.
• barbult Posts: 27,514

  September 12

  It is just a Daz primitive plane. I think I created it 2 or 3 Meters on a side and 100 divisions. I rotated the triangulation of two quadrants so all quadrant triangulation aimed toward a plane corner. There was a Daz tutorial on that technique when dForce was introduced. I can't add any images tonight. My computer is shut down and I have only my phone.
• DoctorJellybean Posts: 10,114

  September 12

  Thank you for all your suggestions, I figured it out.
• barbult Posts: 27,514

  September 12

  jmucchiello said:

  It might be helpful if you also posted the before primitive in wire view.

  Here is a top view screenshot of the primitive plane with my circular opacity map, a blue viewport background, and the Triangulation Wireframe Opacity increased in Draw Settings. 

  

  

  Screenshot 2026-09-12 163247.png

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• richardandtracy Posts: 8,052

  September 12

  Did the triangles help it drape? Otherwise it seems to be a step not altogether needed. Always wanting to learn. Regards, Richard.
• felis Posts: 6,513

  September 12 edited September 12

  The way the triangles is orientated can help it drape better, more smoothly.

  But this is a fairly dense mesh, so noy sure how much it would change.

  Post edited by felis on September 12
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 111,430

  12:17AM

  Traingulating can help, but you can control how DS triangulates to mimic the way that the two diagonally oposite quadrants have the same direction of split and the adjacent quadrants the opposite by using the right-click>Geometry Editing>Rotate Triangulation... command with the Geoemtry Editor on the selsected quadrants, which avoids doubling the working polygon count.
• barbult Posts: 27,514

  1:02AM

  felis said:

  The way the triangles is orientated can help it drape better, more smoothly.

  But this is a fairly dense mesh, so noy sure how much it would change.

  It might not add much for this density. I don't have any evidence one way of the other. I didn't try without the triangulation rotation, because with it was my best chance for success. It is very easy to do the triangulation rotation on a plane like this, so I just did it.