VICODynamics: a particle based Soft-Body physics Plugin

[hippowombat]

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The biggest advantage of APEX Cloth is that it was built on the presumption of being used on skeletal meshes as clothing and because of that their system has extremely specific techniques to produce the great looking clothing results.
My system was/is built as a general purpose soft-body system, and that presents challenges for specific use cases such as clothing where many micro-collisions have to be resolved. In-short, the results with fast moving rigid bodies will not be comparable, visually, to apex for the time being.
With that said, however, I’m planning to add support for better handling clothing on characters. Especially since our game will be needing it soon anyway. There are two main things that need to be implemented, first being per-face collision resolve because the current per-particle setup will not be accurate enough and second being the ability to properly impart velocity onto the colliding cloth pieces. Currently, a fast moving rigid body could partially intersect a cloth piece if the piece is still. And this stems from how rigid body collision is being handled, no thanks to the inability to inject proxies into PhysX’s broad-phase…

I do want to note that in your case, you could have the bits of the cloth that are in close contact with the body mesh marked as ‘fixed’ and have the extremities simulate. But I’m not sure if that look would suite your needs.

Thank you, my pleasure!

That sounds like it could work in my case, do you mark the bits of cloth by vertex I assume?

Cheers!