Stabilizing Simulation or running it? (yes, more dForce questions)

IsaacNewton

When running a dForce simulation on a simple clothing item (designed for G3f on G3f), using the option to simulate using the Current frame and with Simulate from bones option switched off, the popup window for the simulation progress bar says Stabilizing Simulation.

Can anyone tell me what that means? Is it running the simulation or stabilizing it? Stabilizing seems such an odd word to use for the actual simulation. I could imagine a stabilization period prior to and at the end of the simulation, but the whole process seems to be called Stabilizing Simulation.

Richard Haseltine

I had to think about this for a few moemnts, but there's no draping over time (because it's a single frame drape) and no going from a starting pose to the final pose (because you've switched the option to start from the memorised pose off) so stabilisation is all that's left. If you give it a non-zero initialisation time it will run both the initialisation and then the stabilisation. So I think this is behaving as expected.

IsaacNewton

Hmmm. You say there is no draping during the Stabilization process, but the clothing does drape over the figure. The clothing stretches and fits to the figure at least to some extent. I just don't understand whether Stabilization is the same as Simulation, or whether these are two different processes.

Richard Haseltine

No, I said you have, with the default settings other than Start from memorised pose, turned off everything but the Stabilisation phase, not that there was no draping.