Help with beginners cloth simulation

beginners
#1

Hi there, super new user here. I’ve been searching and googling about and I’m really scratching my head when it comes to using OF to play and explore cloth simulation.
I want to explore building something similar to the SpringMesh IOS app from CAN. I’m working on a project using lots of traingular graphics, and I wanted to see if there’s anything interesting I can explore with dynamics and triangulated meshes.

The cloth simulation tutorials I’ve found online look like they’re using a legacy ofx Vector Math approach, and wondered if there were any guides to some more recent stuff for OF8?

Many thanks, and thanks for your patience.

k

#2

This kind of depends on what you’re looking to achieve. If you’re after the learning experience, many cloth simulations are based on verlet integration.

If you just want a quick approximation for an effect, though, using a physics lib (like ofxBox2d) and creating a grid of loose springs might be good enough :smile:

#3

thanks @admsyn sorry for my delayed response. I’m going to have to go through some basics first I think and get back up to speed, I’m a bit rusty. cheers!