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6 With the newly created constraint still selected, select Display > Hide >
Hide Selection.
The constraint markers disappear to give you a better view of the dress
straps.
NOTE If you de-selected the constraint and have trouble re-selecting it, you
can select Window > Outliner to open the Maya Outliner. You can then select
the constraint by left-clicking dynamicConstraint1 in the Outliner.
7 Select the dress.
8 Select nCache > Create New Cache.
Maya automatically plays back the nCloth simulation and saves it to disk.
9 Playback the scene.
The dress straps now stay with the characters body throughout the
animation.
Improving the quality of the nCloth simulation
Although the dress behaves roughly the way a real dress would, you will notice
that some of the collisions (the places in which the dress intersects with itself
or with the character) do not appear correct. Specifically, in some areas, the
characters mesh shows through the dress or the dress bunches up and becomes
trapped in that state.
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