Cloth problem, get intangled in the mesh

[Hellsing80h]

hey guys i have a interisting problem concerning Cloth for my player model

i use unreals build ind PhysX cloth to control my charakters coat and hair, i have two speeds as well, one for running and one for walking, so far walking looks good but then i run it get weird, some how the cloth gets in tangle in the mesh and end op in the front of the mesh and some how penetrate the colision assets.
like this
wierd error.JPG
the coat is red and the hair is white

as you can se it is cuite a problem, eny ideas how to fix it ?

[darthviper107]

Either your cloth settings are wrong or your physics assets are wrong.

[Hellsing80h]

hehe thx mate ^^ that what i know allreaddy i based most of of the http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/PhysX..._PhysX%20cloth
maybe that helps

[Hellsing80h]

i take that no one knows that much about phyx cloth for clothing simulation purposes ??

[Hellsing80h]

enyone ? well if there is some one withh the same problem as me ill post the answer here when i get it ^^

[darthviper107]

I don't know PhysX, but to me it looks like the distance threshold (distance it separates the cloth from the collision mesh) is either too high or too low. You also need to make sure you have stuff for the cloth to collide with and that your cloth mesh is properly modeled so it has vertices in places where it might collide. Also, for clothing try and skin parts of the mesh that don't really need simulation, like stuff that's tight on the torso that way it's not trying to simulate areas where it's complicated and wouldn't normally move much anyways.

[Hitpawz]

UDK's built in cloth simulation is not very good and should be avoided on characters. Look into APEX clothing instead as I believe it produces much more stable results. UDK's cloth tends to randomly bounce for some weird reason and the settings don't seem to help solve the problem.

[Hellsing80h]

@hitpawz
you completely correct it does act wierd, and i agree with you on the apex part as well it seams more well suided for coth while phyx cloth that is build into udk is better for flags and stuff like that

i have gotten my hands on the apex lab and add in for the maya 2011 student version so ill try working with apex instead.

thx for the advice
^^