if you already go this far, then you could add some slight sin/cos movements to the trenchcoats vertices. this would add slight windy movement

Yeah, that could look rather pretty.

How do you use the .dat file that comes with the cloth physics demos?

I haven't been able to find any modeling or animation software for lower budgets that is capable of soft body dynamics.

Even if you do find one that you can afford, I can tell you from experience that animating cloth and stopping it from going into the model's body is quite a task. One that should keep you fixed to your monitor for a few days at least.

You could also try bone animation, but it won't look as good, and pretty hard to make any semblence of real motion.

Using 3dgs physics objects to control the position of vertices in a cloth model sounds like one hell of a task. I've never heard of such a thing ever being attempted, so if you are game, then I'd like to hear how you go.

I understand your frustration, there is no easy solution. I think your best bet is to get access to a high end modeling program and using its motion dynamics capabilities.

Just stick your model in the simulation when using a cloth simulator. Then you animate the cloth while the model is going through it's animation.

Bring the whole object into MED as a vertex animation and it should look right. Keeping the cloth out of the model isn't difficult in XSI. That's the only cloth simulator I have access to. (besides the one the comes with truespace. But I'm not going to load that one up right now.) On second thought I also have poser 5 with cloth simulation. It's an ok animation system, but not as good as the XSI cloth animation system.

I agree that a realtime cloth animation system would be really cool to use in a game. But this is the best that I can think of for the time being.

Did anyone try the cloth simulation demo I posted, it's real time, complex, and has great colision detection. I asume conitec could add something like it the 3dgs, most likey would end up a PRO only feature.

I didn't know you posted a real time cloth simulator. Where can I take a look at it?

Hope this link works, it's the copied URL for where you select a server for downloading it. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/apocalyx/ClothDemo_0.5.0_WIN-030412.zip?download

Its very cool the cloth simlutator.. but how can this be applyed to 3dGS?