Interactive Cloth

The Interactive Cloth class is a Component that simulates a "cloth-like" behavior on a mesh. Use this Component if you want to use cloth in your scene.

Properties

Interactive Cloth

Bending Stiffness	Bending stiffness of the cloth.
Stretching Stiffness	Stretching Stiffness of the cloth.
Damping	Damp cloth motion.
Thickness	The thickness of the cloth surface.
Use Gravity	Should Gravity affect the cloth simulation?.
Self Collision	Will the cloth collide with itself?.
External Acceleration	A constant, external acceleration applied to the cloth
Random Acceleration	A random, external acceleration applied to the cloth
Mesh	Mesh that will be used by the interactive cloth for the simulation
Friction	The friction of the cloth.
Density	The density of the cloth.
Pressure	The pressure inside the cloth/
Collision Response	How much force will be applied to colliding rigidbodies?.
Attachment Tear Factor	How far attached rigid bodies need to be stretched, before they will tear off.
Attachment Response	How much force will be applied to attached rigidbodies?.
Tear Factor	How far cloth vertices need to be stretched, before the cloth will tear.
Attached Colliders	Array that contains the attached colliders to this cloth

The Interactive Cloth Component depends of the Cloth Renderer Component, this means that this component cannot be removed if the Cloth Renderer is present in the Game Object.

Cloth Renderer

Cast Shadows	If selected the cloth will cast shadows
Receive Shadows	The cloth can receive Shadows if enabled
Materials	Materials that the cloth will use.
Use Light Probes	If selected, light probes will be enabled.
Light Probe Anchor	Light Probe lighting is interpolated at the center of the Renderer's bounds or at the position of the anchor, if assigned.
Pause When Not Visible	If selected, the simulation will not be calculated when the cloth is not being rendered by the camera.

Adding an Interactive Cloth Game Object

To add an Interactive Cloth in the scene just select GameObject->Create Other->Cloth.

Hints.

• Using lots of clothes in your game will reduce exponentially the performance of your game.
• If you want to simulate clothing on characters, check out the Skinned Cloth component instead, which interacts with the SkinnedMeshRenderer component and is much faster then InteractiveCloth.
• To attach the cloth to other objects, use the Attached Colliders property to assign other objects to attach to. The colliders must overlap some vertices of the cloth mesh for this to work.
• Attached Colliders' objects must intersect with the cloth you are attaching to.

Notes.

• Cloth simulation will generate normals but not tangents. If the source mesh has tangents, these will be passed to the shader unmodified - so if you are using a shader which depends on tangents (such as bump mapped shaders), the lighting will look wrong for cloth which has been moved from its initial position.
• Moving cloth by directly changing object's transform is not supported. Cloth is being simulated in world space and does not get any changes you make in transform. In case you really want to move the cloth directly without applying any forces you are free to transform all cloth vertices manually.
• Disabling the cloth before changing the transform also works because when you re-activate the cloth, it basically gets re-created in initial state with new transform.
• So, when you want to move cloth, you have two options: transform all cloth vertices directly or disable the cloth before setting the transform.

Page last updated: 2013-08-12