Quote - ...Third problem: When I've got an item draped and simulated, I'd say a large number of times it looks horrible. It just looks nothing more than what it is: A cloth room simulation. There's something very typical to the way these failures look---crushed and smushed polygons, unrealistic folds, corners jutting out at unnatural angles---I can't quite describe it precisely in words, but I can tell immediately that it's one of my usual attempts in the Cloth Room. Which, after struggling with all the technical bits and thinking I've finally conquered them, makes me feel totally disheartened to see something that is hideously inferior and of a quality that's not even approaching acceptable. So, on the whole, a very miserable experience. (At least until I decide the Hair Room is due for another visit.)

Yup! I'm staring at eXACTly that right at this very moment in my cloth room, John. Basically, it is poo. 7 on the Richter-scale. I followed the SM tutorial settings for silk. Maybe the mesh isn't right for it. But, it looks like absolute rubbish.

My issue is: I hate just following a recipe without understanding what sodium chloride does, and why no garlic is called for when it's clearly an italian dish and can zucchini really be used as a bread substitute.... and why. I'm weird that way. So, I've looked at "hey, don't worry about all those settings, just do THIS" tutorials and they just don't work for me.

Bagginsbill gave me WHYS in the mat room.

So now, like you, I have no fears there. No, I'm not going to pretend I know what BB knows... not even a fraction. BUT I know basic principles. Here in the cloth room, basic principles need to be dealt with in a non-jargoned, lay-person language, making things crystal-clear so that this whole technology is demystified. Meaning: make the labels clear, standardise the ranges, offer a manual that actually explains stuff instead of saying things like what I cited above.

Until then, you will enter the cloth room with hope, John, and leave with dispair. And mate, it's not you... it's the freakin' interface.

Wake up, SM. It's not perfect, this room. Lots still to do!!!

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks