• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Cloth/Soft Body Dynamics Question

  Posted by Marcus Chaloner on January 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to simulate an airbag in Cinema 4D.

  I have started by using cloth on a simple primitive sphere, and keyframing the Flexion property of the Clothide Tag.

  The animation produced is convincing – however, if I have another airbag set off right next to it. the cloth doesn’t react properly. it starts to stick and hang.

  I don’t think this is the best work flow for producing the desired result. I have started using soft body dynamics, but i am struggling to simulate the right effect.

  does anyone have any suggestiosn on simulating a quickly inflating airbag, and simulating the effect on another airbag using something like cloth dynamics or soft body dynamics?

  Many Thanks

  Brian Jones replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Jones

  January 14, 2009 at 8:41 pm

  an object as both cloth and collider is usually a bit of a bear (not that someone doesn’t have a way). Maybe if both the bags were one object (one poly object containing both) it might work better with self-collision (maybe not), I’d have to test first to make a guess with soft bodies.

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