Optitex Dynamic Cloth - Can Animate Lite Be Used With Drape?

Mage 13X13

I'm starting this topic for the purposes of learning what can be done with Optitex Dynamic Cloth. I want to do a short animation of a girl shaking her hips in a dynamic clothing flared skirt. I know that the first 15 frames need to be for the initial drape of the skirt, but after that, I want to have a short dance sequence that would be animated as a clip showing how the skirt reacts to the girl shaking her hips. So I would like to know if it is possible to do that. Also I would like to know what, the sequence would need to be if any special steps need to be added.

1. Would I have to switch from the Drape simulation to the Animate Lite timeline, or can the whole simulation be done using Animate Lite as the Drape and Animation timeline?

2. If I have to switch from the Drape Timeline to the Animate Lite Timeline, do I do this after the initial Drape simulation is completed, and then set up my dance sequence?

3. Will it even work at all?

I really do hope to learn a way to do this. While I do have Poser, it is not my main application for my art, and I don't like how the Genesis and Genesis 2 figures work in Poser. I want to use a Genesis 2 Female Character for my animation. So since I have gotten into using the Optitex Dynamic Cloth plugin for DAZ Studio, I want the animation made in that program.

Please let me know the answers to these questions, and if you can, provide a srep by step instructional on how to do this. I figure there are others of us looking to learn this type of thing as well, so any information provided will be much appreciated, not just by me, but by others that wish to learn also.

Thank you.

thd777

Yes, you can do that. Here is how I set it up for this:

1. Set up your animation with aniblocks in the Animate time line. 

2. Once you are satisfied you need to "bake to DAZ studio time line" (in the corner menu of the Animate tab)

3. Now add your dynamic clothing in the first frame and simulate. 

'Sometimes it is useful to add a few frames in the zero pose at the beginning to allow the clothes to settle, especially if the character is heavily morphed. 

Hope this helps

ciao

TD

thd777

Here is a very simple and low resolution movie I made this way many years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiCVxLfUjM

Ciao

TD