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Is it possible to create a rigid part that react to physics on a cloth object ?

For exemple in the following image i've put the right part of the mesh as fully pinned, and put a monkey head under the mesh. I'd like for the highlighted part to be rigid, not bend at all and keep its form.

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I've tried to add springs or change the pinning values also touched the property weights, am i missing something or did i not change the values correctly, if possible ?

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  • $\begingroup$ why don't you just pin all that vertices on the left/lower part too? $\endgroup$
    – user131425
    Commented Sep 10, 2021 at 9:41
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    $\begingroup$ @John MC, I think he wants the left part to be rigid but not stay in place $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Sep 10, 2021 at 10:10
  • $\begingroup$ yes, i want the left part to be able to move with physics, not staying in place $\endgroup$
    – pari truc
    Commented Sep 10, 2021 at 11:24

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Well, kinda, look what I've done:

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So, I started with your setup, and made 2 objects to be parented to corners (Using Vertex Parent (Ctrl+P in edit mode)) and 1 long object in the middle (also vertex parent):

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Then I added track to constraints to rotate the long object:

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So that the rotation of central piece is now like interpolated between positions of 2 corner pieces.

So the last part: I duplicated cloth, add the opposite corner to the Pin vertex group, and added a new vertex group with only the opposite corner to be driven by position of central piece using Hook modifier:

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Order of modifier and cloth is important!

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Finally, original cloth should be hidden from view and render. The method is not perfect, but I would like to see something better

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks !!, it works though it's quit tedious to do and it can cause some clipping. $\endgroup$
    – pari truc
    Commented Sep 10, 2021 at 13:30
  • $\begingroup$ As I said, it was not perfect $\endgroup$
    – Crantisz
    Commented Sep 10, 2021 at 13:33

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