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I try to make clothes for my character, but for some reason, every time when I try to animate the clothes, they always start looking like this when I add cloth physics to them.

This is the problem

This is what I would like them to look like: enter image description here

How do I fix this?

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Try checking a "Self collision" box

enter image description here By the way there is same question answered. Cloth - Cloth interactions in Blender Maybe this will help you.

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Cloth physics is done (it appears) with something akin to a 'explicit' FE solver, which is sensitive to the speed of sound in materials. Sounds complicated, but ultimately means that the finer the mesh, the more likely the solution is to go unstable. The instability makes adjacent nodes move against each other and ripple, leading to the appearance of crushing.

Some solutions to the problem include increasing the node point mass (something like increasing density and decreasing speed of sound), decreasing the cloth stiffness, decreasing the simulation speed multiplier, increasing the quality steps, and decreasing the mesh density. Note that mesh node count isn't what is interesting, but actually the inter-node distance. The stability is governed by the smallest distance between connected nodes in the mesh. With a static image, all solutions will be of use, but if trying to include dynamics, many of these solutions will not (will change the dynamics) and only increasing quality of simulation, of contact collisions, reducing mesh density, and using things like collision clamping controls will be of use.

With the low mesh density, cloth benefits from using smoothed rendering of faces.

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  • $\begingroup$ I don't think the literal speed of sound plays into this, there is probably no such constant in Blender, but solver iterations (which is probably related to quality steps and speed in cloth settings) should-- forces cannot propagate faster than these iterations. Simulated physics are sampled physics, sampled in both time and space. This forms a Blender speed of sound (which is not the same thing as the RW speed of sound.) But, basically, yeah, the number of nodes (vertices) matters a lot, and as few as you can use is best. Interesting re: edge length (node distance.) $\endgroup$
    – Nathan
    Commented Dec 20, 2021 at 0:19

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