DAZ dForce vs Poser Cloth Simulation
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As far as I understood is that props or objs don't work without additional effort in dforce as it still requires some rigging of the sort.
In Poser's Clothroom and VWD, you can just get an obj simmed.
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@fbs7 But if you can't do collisions then it isn't really a cloth sim, as the whole purpose, other than draping curtains is the collisions with the wearer and other objects.
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@amethystpendant said in DAZ dForce vs Poser Cloth Simulation:
@fbs7 But if you can't do collisions then it isn't really a cloth sim, as the whole purpose, other than draping curtains is the collisions with the wearer and other objects.
I was thinking of just giving a shuffling or shimmering effect to what would otherwise be a conforming cloth. But that would work for small movements only.
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@fbs7 has anyone determined the file format for the cloth dynamics files? If so, it might be possible to use a weight map and python script to generate a second dynamics file with modulated dynamics. Perhaps. Depending on whether the file distinguishes dynamics from choreographed vertices.
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@anomalaus The file format is object files, same as always for both the Poser Cloth Room and the BP engine. Weightmaps would be of little to no use in either the Cloth Room or BP.
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@eclark1849 no, no. I don't mean the .obj wavefront object geometry definitions, I mean the .dyn dynamic cloth simulation files, which must contain per-frame-per-vertex deformations for the dynamic cloth object for the whole simulation. The .dyn files are a binary format, like (but not the same format as) .pmd, not human-readable text, like .obj files (or even the gzip compressed .obz files).
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@anomalaus From P11 onwards the extension is now .abc and they are I believe alembic files
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@anomalaus
I have understood these files use the in Alembic format.
(@amethystpendant did beat me by a minute on this one, LOL!)
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@amethystpendant & @fverbaas thanks, it's been that long since I ran simulations regularly, and since I'm now using autosave, the simulations get hidden away in subdirectories. I am seeing .abc Alembic files for the most recent cloth simulation.
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I wouldn't touch the cloth simulation files with a 50-feet spear... the thing already breaks a lot on its own without external help...
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@fbs7
It seems VWD uses these files to communicate with Poser.
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@fverbaas said in DAZ dForce vs Poser Cloth Simulation:
@fbs7
It seems VWD uses these files to communicate with Poser.Haven't played with VWD since it was launched, really must! But yes the proc calculates the sim and writes the results to the alembic file so that Poser can apply them
