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Freeze Simulation Not Working?

mikethe3dguymikethe3dguy Posts: 515
edited August 2020 in The Commons

I'm wondering if I don't understand what "freeze simulation" is supposed to do. My understanding is that if you set FS to on for a certain item, then it's frozen in time -  immune to further dForce changes until you turn it off, no matter how many times you run simulations in the scene. But I keep getting screwed up. I run a simulation on garment A, get it just the way I want it, turn FS ON, then move to garment B. I simulate it, and IT looks perfect, but garment A is now in a "pre-simulated" state again, with its freeze simulation setting still ON, and I've lost all my work!

What's going on?

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  • mikethe3dguymikethe3dguy Posts: 515

    Ah! I JUST figured out what is going on. The clothing item is conforming, and after un-parenting and un-conforming it to simulate it (partial un-dressing), afterward I had to parent it again to a body part of the figure to re-pose a limb and the clothing article. It didn't "lose its simulation" so much as it re-conformed to the figure! Oh what a tangled web we weave...

  • mikethe3dguymikethe3dguy Posts: 515

    NO, that's NOT it. I tried again, and this time did not re-parent it to anything. Same thing happened: it lost its simulated state when I simulated a third item in spite of being set to FS: ON.

     

    Still would like an explanation if anyone knows...

  • mikethe3dguymikethe3dguy Posts: 515
    edited August 2020

    Damn. And now garment B just lost ITS dForce state too! So, not limited to just this one item. Seems like the only way to make this work is to simulate each item separately in its own scene file, then merge them with the main scene once done. That's how I'm "fixing" it now.

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  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited August 2020

    Are you using the "Clear" button. That ignores any freeze settings and clears the simulation for everything in the scene. The workaround is to select the garment you want to clear and then:

    Right-Click the Simulation Settings Tab > dForce > Clear Selected Objects

    In the same Tab there's also an option to Simulate Selected (only the selected garment) but you have to remember to select the garment and whatever it is colliding with (the character, in the case of clothing, for example).

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  • mikethe3dguymikethe3dguy Posts: 515
    marble said:

    Are you using the "Clear" button. That ignores any freeze settings and clears the simulation for everything in the scene. The workaround is to select the garment you want to clear and then:

    Right-Click the Simulation Settings Tab > dForce > Clear Selected Objects

    In the same Tab there's also an option to Simulate Selected (only the selected garment) but you have to remember to select the garment and whatever it is colliding with (the character, in the case of clothing, for example).

    Hmm, don't know if I've done that each time, but it's possible. You could be right marble, thanks for the advice!

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