Cloth simulation

[ground-water]

Hi! I’m new to cinema 4D and I want to make a basketball jersey spinning for work with a cloth simulation.

For some reason, when I try to rotate it with the simulation, it doesn’t follow the rotation I animated before and instead just sits and ripples a lot.

How can I get it to follow the rotation animation and what settings would be best to simulate a jersey material?

Thank you so much in advance!!

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi ground-water,

Here is an example of direct driving connections. The finer the mesh, the more "soft" it will behave.

CV4_2025_24_SIjs_01.c4d

Here is a show about several ideas and fabric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wix_9Gv-uBA

All the best

[ground-water]

@Dr-Sassi thank you for the quick reply!
Sorry it took me a while to test, a lot of stuff came up in my personal life.

I tried copying your forces but the cloth seems to just stretch and fall off.
Is it the gravity in the scene? What am I missing?
Here is the file
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FtYXOiRjUckrdSaF6PaNyzZeTHbKtgh0?usp=sharing

Sorry for the google link - it was too big to upload

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi ground-water,

Thanks for the file and the Google Cloud use; this is perfect.

Here is a little suggestion.
https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2024_PROJECTS_DRS/20241213_CV4_2025_drs_24_SIbs_01c4d.zip
This file needs to be in your Project folder, unzipped.

The shirt was built with volume, which doesn't help, so I made a copy and took the inside out. The Cloth Surface will replace the thickness.
The mesh was rather dense, so I Remeshed it. Hence, the texture is off, but let us focus on the motion first. This is art direction, and I have no idea how you would like to have it.
The Puppet is a bad Collider, hence I smoothed it with the Volume workflow. Otherwise, the two shoulder "balls" shape the shirt. (or was that intentional?)

I have decreased the Gravity and the Mass of the shirt. With a Mass of 1, that shirt would be 1kg per 1000cc and normal Gravity. With the modeled initial double-sided. The typical air in the fabric is not acknowledged, etc.

Cache it first.

Let me know what you think about it.

Enjoy your weekend.