He is always the best. I started learning Blender a year ago from zero to what you can see on my channel now. all because of him and also Grant Abbit. Love their styles of teaching. Thank you for all your tutorials. Just started my channel last month if you want to check it out
You explained this with great clarity! I also like how simple is that cloth material, it's just one texture image, but really looks legit. Will certainly watch more of your tutorials.
thank you! ya just helped me out to make a folded blanket for my assets for a short film! SO easy to understand and applicable to other things within blender. You rock!
Mine too! 😂 as a beginner, I also couldn't get the animation to properly work with the towel at all, the towel was quite the rebel. But I'd like to re-visit this tutorial after getting a bit more familiar with everything Blender-related, maybe then I'll get it to work properly!
Very good tutorials....A commendable job....Eagerly waiting for your new learning videos in blender...Thank you very much....For taking your precious time in educating people...
I tried this but failed. Does it matter what size everything is? My first attempt the cylinder just went straight through the towel and the towel crumpled. Trying it again but in a new project so I know my settings are all set to the defaults. EDIT: I've tried this multiple times and it is really hard to anticipate where the towel is after the first fold, then the second fold, then of course the third fold. You will have to scroll through your timeline and make adjustments until you get it how you want it. As for the towel flying off the table, make sure your "floor" friction is turned down I set mine at 30 not 80 and when you are pulling the cylinder out make sure the cylinder is above the "floor" not touching it. With enough refinement you can get it to look how you want it to. :)
I need to learn some cloth simulations! The physics are awesome. I've only recently used physics to make a pile of poker chips. Cloth will be my next dive into the physics of Blender. Nice vid.
Good evening. A very interesting lesson. And if it is a terry towel that is slightly thicker. Or how you can prepare such a texture map. a link to the primer will also be good.
Had this issue too, just keyframe the Object collisions on the cloth, you hit "I" to insert a keyframe while hovering over the checkbox in the Physics tab while its checked on frame 99, then move to frame 100 uncheck it and keyframe it, then keyframe it unchecked again on frame 101, this is when the cylinder is removed, then on frame 102 check the Object Collisions checkbox again and keyframe it so its ready for the next collision on the second fold.
Too bad the tutorial does not follow us precisely step by step to the end. Setting the keyframes is not explained in details. I have the same cloth simulation settings, but due to some reason I don't get the same result - the cloth does not look right starting from some step.
This is a great tutorial!! I wonder If it is possible to use this technique to fold the cloth in zig-zag in both planes (x and y). I would like to know-how. Thank you!!
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one.
Can anyone help me? When I apply "self collision" to the cloths Blender goes crazy: or it completely freezes and I have to restart it or the mesh shrinks on itself. I don't understand why it gives me this problem and yet I follow the tutorial step by step by putting the same identical values for both the cloth and the collision. I also tried changing the "vertex mass" and also the "distance" values to "self collision" but it still doesn't work.
I have the same problem. even better: before enabeling self collision my towel would be afected by the cilinder and table but fall through them; after self collision the towel shrinked on it self; I disable self colision => it keeps shrinking on itself
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one. Keep self-collisions ON.
I felt it was perfectly explained, but maybe it will help you to know you just have to scrub through the timeline, change something (e.g., Grab with G, Scale with S, Rotate with R...) and Insert a keyframe with I, then repeat this process for every movement you want to animate. You can also use F3 to bring the searchable menu or use the mouse.
Cloth looked great the folds look great but the cloth moving against the cloth makes it look like it is teflon. Is there a roughness factor for the cloth sim?
Before I get started. I tried something similar with a "dropped cloth" over a table. I let a table-cloth, fall onto a table and the cloth just bounces and bounces and bounces. what cause this? I tried extending the thickness of the table-top (since it was covered anyway) to the length of the cloth being draped. But still bouncing and folding into a ball and rolling around in cyber space like an asteroid wadded ball. Finally I used weight paint and deleted the top of the table and it stopped bounding, but I had to remove the table to do this. What I wanted was a couple wrinkles in the drop, hence the dropping of the cloth. But it never worked out. Any ideas or experience with these problems? I use 2.82a.
Works a lot better if the stick is also made a collision physics object. I forgot to do that the first time through! Other than my stupidity, this was interesting and useful. Making a folded towel is something I would have just avoided in the past.
1:03 why do you need mesh geometry to be square shaped if after subdivision it's going to be small enough? Isn't physics simulation going to deal with it on its own? What are the benefits of sqaure-shaped geometry vs (for example) 2x1 rectangle or even triangle?
well let's say you didn't shade it smooth, then you would be able to see the geometry's shape clearly. not only that, but the simulation can only move vertices which already exist, so if your mesh resolution would be small and you would have a 2x1 rectangle your simulation would be different from one with 1x1 squares because it simply can't bend as much as it needs to.
Hello there, the tutorial is very good you explained everything very clear, except when the moment to move the cylinder and make the keyframes arrived, If you don't know how to do it, the tutorial is workless for beginners, ( like me), so I would love to do it, but the most important step is missing ( keyframes and animation), thanks anyway, but consider the beginners next time, who actually are the ones watching this..:-P
This is awesome! How would you unfold the towel to a position that's flat or hooked for example so when you pull it away, it unfolds? Looking at something like this for a product animation of a towel that's in a box :)
Nice tutorial, but I had an idea to do something similar and then import it into a virtual world (Second Life) as an custom decoration, but then I want to be able to remove as much hidden geometry as possible, is this something you know hao to do in a faster way than do it manyally?
Wonderful. The towel should be more "floppy", in my opinion. To my eye there is some resemblance with thin straw mats they put under the plates in restaurants.
The tutorials are great, but could you go more into the why? for instance when you checked self collisions on the towel, you set the distance to 0.01, that works for this specific instance, but it would be much more helpful if you explained what the distance slider does, so we know how to use it in future projects, to show more the theory behind it instead of just the numbers. no hate, just my thoughts
I tried to follow .....but it looks to me like you left out exactly how you set up the cylinder. Gonna have to try again.....but so far, the cylinder I made, just goes thru the towel.....and the towel just kinda shrinks up.....I"m missing a step somewhere. Any help appreciated. Thank you, my friend.
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one.
Still coming back to your tutorials after following you for six years. You got a real knack for explaining things in ways I can grasp and work with.
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What a superb tutorial. You earn my respect with every tutorial. What a way to teach. Hats off.
Yes, he explains very well.
I totally agree. No ego, no gimmicks, just straightforward and informative.
Yes he is really clear and it is so great to hear a tutorial without unnecessary music droning on as well ;)
Yes he teached my friend blender
I've said it before. I'll say it here and I'm SURE I'll say it again. Nobody makes better Blender tutorials than this man. Nobody.
Totally agreed
Definitely true. He explains everything super well, especially for beginners. it's very professional compared to a lot of other tutorials I've seen.
100 right
Not only are you clearly brilliant minded but you also teach as no one else. Great job, as always
You make the best Blender tutorials on TH-cam today, by far. Thank you!
Love it! One of the best Blender teachers on TH-cam.
I absolutely love how clear and concise your tutorials are. You're a champ. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
thanks for this channel. step by step tutorials without assuming that viewers know all basics
I want to say some words, but i fond others say it better than me, you are the best teacher for blender tutorials 👍
I'm new Blender user and i have learned too many things from you.. Thank you so much for your effort. I'm very big fan of you !!
I am impressed at just how good the cloth physics are. The technique for quickly pulling the cylinder out is very clever too.
After a few hours of exploding vertices from curved towel, I found this. What a interesting way to tackle this kind of modeling. Thank you so much.
being detailed this way makes you one of the best tutorial makers here !!! keep up doing this !!
Still the best tutorials on youtube. Hats off.
You clearly understand the struggles of learners. Your teaching is Smooth. Thanks a lot.
He is always the best. I started learning Blender a year ago from zero to what you can see on my channel now. all because of him and also Grant Abbit. Love their styles of teaching. Thank you for all your tutorials. Just started my channel last month if you want to check it out
You explained this with great clarity! I also like how simple is that cloth material, it's just one texture image, but really looks legit. Will certainly watch more of your tutorials.
thank you! ya just helped me out to make a folded blanket for my assets for a short film! SO easy to understand and applicable to other things within blender. You rock!
Your tuts are always great and simple with new techniques. Lot of thanks for your effort and time.
You helped me figure out why my cloth sims are uneven: the mesh isn't! And adding a loop cut solves this. Thanks for the clear explanation!
So simple an amazing ^^!!, I learn much more from your video of less seven minutes than others with 30.
Thanks :)
The quality of this tutorial is incredible. Thanks a lot for sharing. You have a new subscriber.
Always excited when I see a new tutorial from you! Looking forward to the next one!
Great tutorial. That being said my cylinder really went to town smacking that towel around. It was brutal.
Mine too! 😂 as a beginner, I also couldn't get the animation to properly work with the towel at all, the towel was quite the rebel. But I'd like to re-visit this tutorial after getting a bit more familiar with everything Blender-related, maybe then I'll get it to work properly!
Thanks. It helped me to get my first blender job.
Great!
Thank you!
I like your way to make tutorials very much!
No music, no distraction.
Greetings
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Wow, I haven't come up with the idea...
Impressive
Very good tutorials....A commendable job....Eagerly waiting for your new learning videos in blender...Thank you very much....For taking your precious time in educating people...
Excellent tutorial. Simple and easy to follow. Great results.
Has a very "how it's made" vibe. I dig it
Wonderful tutorial!! Just the right speed for us beginners. Thanks 😊
Super concise tutorial. Extremely helpful.
This is such a good tutorial and really turned out nice! It's so much easier than I thought!
I tried this but failed. Does it matter what size everything is? My first attempt the cylinder just went straight through the towel and the towel crumpled. Trying it again but in a new project so I know my settings are all set to the defaults. EDIT: I've tried this multiple times and it is really hard to anticipate where the towel is after the first fold, then the second fold, then of course the third fold. You will have to scroll through your timeline and make adjustments until you get it how you want it. As for the towel flying off the table, make sure your "floor" friction is turned down I set mine at 30 not 80 and when you are pulling the cylinder out make sure the cylinder is above the "floor" not touching it. With enough refinement you can get it to look how you want it to. :)
This is a great tutorial!
Now... if only I could fold my real towels without getting up from my computer...
Another great tutorial! Thank you very much!
Wow this is awesome! Concise but well explained
I never would have guessed it wasn't a real cloth.
I need to learn some cloth simulations! The physics are awesome. I've only recently used physics to make a pile of poker chips. Cloth will be my next dive into the physics of Blender. Nice vid.
Thanx, Bro! Very informative and nicely done tutorial.
Nice! Great results and as always, right to the point and easy to follow.
CheerZ!
Good evening. A very interesting lesson.
And if it is a terry towel that is slightly thicker.
Or how you can prepare such a texture map. a link to the primer will also be good.
Thank you for this video. It’s nice to know how to make a fold towel.
At frame 101, how did you quickly moved the Cylinder away without affecting the cloth?
The cloth just fly away.
I have the same problem.
Had this issue too, just keyframe the Object collisions on the cloth, you hit "I" to insert a keyframe while hovering over the checkbox in the Physics tab while its checked on frame 99, then move to frame 100 uncheck it and keyframe it, then keyframe it unchecked again on frame 101, this is when the cylinder is removed, then on frame 102 check the Object Collisions checkbox again and keyframe it so its ready for the next collision on the second fold.
@@lobonzlobo Thank you.
Excellent video. It's like Coles Notes or Cliff Notes for how to use Blender.
Too bad the tutorial does not follow us precisely step by step to the end. Setting the keyframes is not explained in details. I have the same cloth simulation settings, but due to some reason I don't get the same result - the cloth does not look right starting from some step.
Yes, beautiful and well explained. Thanks!
What a brilliant idea to make a folded towel woooooooo
I love it, but can you teach us how you make towel fabric texture?, thanks
Impressive,,I'm a huge fan of your work ..muchisimas gracias
Really, really love your tutorials are the best, TY TY TY please make more
Gentlemen, this is a very good tutorial.
when I set my cylinder keyframe why my towel doesn't follow my cylinder goes, do I miss something? I'm new with animation in blender
mee too i"m confused lol
@@freetime_np3284 problem solved,u must set the keyframe first,then bake the towel,it will fix our problem,
This is a great tutorial!! I wonder If it is possible to use this technique to fold the cloth in zig-zag in both planes (x and y). I would like to know-how. Thank you!!
This was a great tutorial, thanks a lot!
Hey, why does the cylinder after it touches the towel kinda draws in the tcloth material inside...
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one.
Can anyone help me? When I apply "self collision" to the cloths Blender goes crazy: or it completely freezes and I have to restart it or the mesh shrinks on itself. I don't understand why it gives me this problem and yet I follow the tutorial step by step by putting the same identical values for both the cloth and the collision. I also tried changing the "vertex mass" and also the "distance" values to "self collision" but it still doesn't work.
I have the same problem. even better: before enabeling self collision my towel would be afected by the cilinder and table but fall through them; after self collision the towel shrinked on it self; I disable self colision => it keeps shrinking on itself
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one. Keep self-collisions ON.
Awesome tutorial as always!!! 👍👍👍
Well teached, as usual. My congratulations!
But this didn't explain the animation or the keyframes for the cylinder?
I felt it was perfectly explained, but maybe it will help you to know you just have to scrub through the timeline, change something (e.g., Grab with G, Scale with S, Rotate with R...) and Insert a keyframe with I, then repeat this process for every movement you want to animate. You can also use F3 to bring the searchable menu or use the mouse.
thank you so much for this tutorial!
Wow, so creative method...
Cloth looked great the folds look great but the cloth moving against the cloth makes it look like it is teflon. Is there a roughness factor for the cloth sim?
🔥🔥 You are a legend !!! Awesome work !! 🔥🔥
This tutorial is unexpectedly literal.
Thanks for the amazing tutorial!😁
Before I get started. I tried something similar with a "dropped cloth" over a table. I let a table-cloth, fall onto a table and the cloth just bounces and bounces and bounces. what cause this? I tried extending the thickness of the table-top (since it was covered anyway) to the length of the cloth being draped. But still bouncing and folding into a ball and rolling around in cyber space like an asteroid wadded ball. Finally I used weight paint and deleted the top of the table and it stopped bounding, but I had to remove the table to do this. What I wanted was a couple wrinkles in the drop, hence the dropping of the cloth. But it never worked out. Any ideas or experience with these problems? I use 2.82a.
Amazing tuts dude! Thanks!
That's brilliant! Thanks dude!
Works a lot better if the stick is also made a collision physics object. I forgot to do that the first time through! Other than my stupidity, this was interesting and useful. Making a folded towel is something I would have just avoided in the past.
1:03 why do you need mesh geometry to be square shaped if after subdivision it's going to be small enough? Isn't physics simulation going to deal with it on its own? What are the benefits of sqaure-shaped geometry vs (for example) 2x1 rectangle or even triangle?
well let's say you didn't shade it smooth, then you would be able to see the geometry's shape clearly. not only that, but the simulation can only move vertices which already exist, so if your mesh resolution would be small and you would have a 2x1 rectangle your simulation would be different from one with 1x1 squares because it simply can't bend as much as it needs to.
Hello there, the tutorial is very good you explained everything very clear, except when the moment to move the cylinder and make the keyframes arrived, If you don't know how to do it, the tutorial is workless for beginners, ( like me), so I would love to do it, but the most important step is missing ( keyframes and animation), thanks anyway, but consider the beginners next time, who actually are the ones watching this..:-P
Keep up the excellent work!!!
You are incredible, my friend ;-) Thank you so much!
Great tutorial. Great technique. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thank you. Dg
legend man i just say 100/100
So what if my towel tears in half and falls down when the cylinder almost reaches the full height? almost as if the towel is too heavy. at frame 40ish
This is awesome! How would you unfold the towel to a position that's flat or hooked for example so when you pull it away, it unfolds?
Looking at something like this for a product animation of a towel that's in a box :)
Nice tut
May i know why the towel will not be affected by the cylinder after the modifiers have been applied? Thank You.
As always, that was awesome ! Thx
Always fantastic.
thank you. great tut :D 👍
Whenever i start baking, the cloth shrinks into a wrinkly blob that reacts heavily on impact, what am i doing wrong? :x
ask here : blender.chat/channel/support
could you hide the cylinder from rendering or hide from view in the collections section?
please tell me how to "extrude individual faces -vertices- normal" in new 2.8 version?
Can you pinch the towel and pick it back up?
Great work - thanks for sharing
Nice tutorial, but I had an idea to do something similar and then import it into a virtual world (Second Life) as an custom decoration, but then I want to be able to remove as much hidden geometry as possible, is this something you know hao to do in a faster way than do it manyally?
Wonderful. The towel should be more "floppy", in my opinion. To my eye there is some resemblance with thin straw mats they put under the plates in restaurants.
That's really clever one ☺️👍
Amazing tutorial as usual but what's up with your mike
Great tutorial, i just wished you showed us how to animate.
Or just subdivide the plane, fold it 3 times in edit mode, run cloth simulation, solidify.
I'd love to see this model a shirt and fold it from a perfect starting position
That is actually genius.
The tutorials are great, but could you go more into the why? for instance when you checked self collisions on the towel, you set the distance to 0.01, that works for this specific instance, but it would be much more helpful if you explained what the distance slider does, so we know how to use it in future projects, to show more the theory behind it instead of just the numbers. no hate, just my thoughts
Hi man. Loving the tuts. I may have missed something but what keyframes did you use?
Amazing and creative
I tried to follow .....but it looks to me like you left out exactly how you set up the cylinder. Gonna have to try again.....but so far, the cylinder I made, just goes thru the towel.....and the towel just kinda shrinks up.....I"m missing a step somewhere. Any help appreciated. Thank you, my friend.
bake after adding keyframes
Notice in the video the cloth wraps around the cylinder with a gap. If the cloth passes through the middle of the cylinder then shrinks to nothing you need to delete that cylinder and make a new one.