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Cloth simulation

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Cloth simulation

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- [Instructor] This week I'm going to show you how you can simulate cloth using a plugin that's available in the SketchUcation Store. I'll open the SketchUcation Stores interface here. And then search for the word cloth. And that should reveal ClothWorks by Anton_S. Install that and once you do, you'll find a new tool palette called ClothWorks that is available. And this tool palette has a UI, or a user interface, which you can access with this first button. And so the way that this plugin works is you have to specify an object or objects as colliders. So, in this case, it's the table that will be the collider. I'm going to select that, right-click and go under ClothWorks and say make collider. And then there are a couple of parameters that you can configure for that object here. Next I need to generate an object that will represent the tablecloth. So I'll do that by drawing in a rectangle here, centered on this point, and I'll give it the size three foot nine, minus three foot nine…

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