micheus: cool! I will try this ASAP and let you know of the results.
micheus, that was #post16 indeed. sice you're listed as as admin, I thought you had read the blacklisted message. never mind, the info got through and this is what matters.
"cloth" is totally the way to go, although I I have not been aware of a way to specify the direction of the fibers (angle your cloth fibers at 45° and the result will be _totally_ different) ; in practice the cloth will _never_ be equi-directional. also, there are many many different types of "woving" and this will radically mess up the way deformation is computed. I am not looking for a way to go as far into that, meshes or fibers are not (at this point) relevant so the surface should be considered as homogenous in nature.
but still.
this is also too-far-fetched anyway.
unfolding and - if possible - smoothing out vertices as suggested in #post12 is most probably the neatest way to go in this case. the rest is just-- cosmetics*?
* not withstanding the fact that it is _definitely_ easier to select edges that will be folded instead of cut because their number differ in a favorable manner.
micheus, that was #post16 indeed. sice you're listed as as admin, I thought you had read the blacklisted message. never mind, the info got through and this is what matters.
"cloth" is totally the way to go, although I I have not been aware of a way to specify the direction of the fibers (angle your cloth fibers at 45° and the result will be _totally_ different) ; in practice the cloth will _never_ be equi-directional. also, there are many many different types of "woving" and this will radically mess up the way deformation is computed. I am not looking for a way to go as far into that, meshes or fibers are not (at this point) relevant so the surface should be considered as homogenous in nature.
but still.
this is also too-far-fetched anyway.
unfolding and - if possible - smoothing out vertices as suggested in #post12 is most probably the neatest way to go in this case. the rest is just-- cosmetics*?
* not withstanding the fact that it is _definitely_ easier to select edges that will be folded instead of cut because their number differ in a favorable manner.