Rigging a thobe (dress)

[Newbeeee]

Hello,

I woould love some advice on how to rig a thobe for my character. I do plan to make his legs 1% opacity beneath the "dress", but currently the thobe is very stiff, which looks strange by the feet during the walk.

What is the best way to go about making his thobe look more natural as he walks? I tied to add physics to the dress but it didn't seem to change anything. I've also tired giving him wide, white legs to mimic the thobe but it didnt work out. 

Screenshots attached.

Video of his walk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_XFIOPVLIiLf4FcYNxqh8ZOSwdDo7fpN/view?usp=share_link

[j-saito]

This version of Sam by @Daniel McKittrick Ramirez uses Leader-Follower to make the skirt follow the leg movements. This may be close to the effect that you are looking for.

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/5415cdbd-abd7-474e-5a23-c80d39ea960f

Few things to be careful about:

• Make sure the mesh with the follower is independent (crowned)
• Make sure the mesh with the follower does not have other tagged handles to avoid the feedback loop

We can give more specific guidance if you can share your puppet on your Google Drive.

[Newbeeee]

Hello, thank you for this. Can you please explain the leader-follower thing to me? I'm guessing the follower = skirt?

The mesh with the follower = the legs? So the legs must be independent?

Kindly find my puppet below. Help will be greatly appreciated.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PbNHK0wjRRowaT5M3tsRJl4Z9IwhlmSW/view?usp=share_link

[Cherie2450573608fr]

Hi Newbeeee,

I did a demonstration on my channel of rigging a skirt, you might find it helpful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_lnbrFyow

[Cherie2450573608fr]

I took a look at the puppet, a long skirt is trickier than short skirt for sure! I got it working ok by making 3 layers of skirt, one for each leg and an over skirt (plain white) to hide the legs better in walk. You might want to play around with the overskirt art and the placement of the handles and sticks for a nicer result, it looks a bit rough near the ankles.
I uploaded the puppet here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssvgN98l1ugZIXSb3Csf0iBJaFHJ2gqw/view?usp=sharing

[Daniel McKittrick Ramirez]

I'm taking a look at your puppet. One quick thing to fix is to set all of your view layers to "Free" so they don't get "welded" to the scene background. 

The Left Elbow was tagged as Left Knee, so that made the left arm do crazy stuff. 

I've attached a puppet that has the Leader/Follower solution. https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/5c30c7fb-14e4-4fd5-4f4b-d01d1529a82f 

[Cherie2450573608fr]

whoops! lol, i was concentrating on the skirt! Glad you found the fix!