Cloth Sim

Garment blockout → sim → art-direct → bake. Stable pins. Engine-friendly caches/shape keys.

When to Use

• Dresses, capes, coats, flags, banners
• Character clothing that needs drape
• Baking sim to shape keys or Alembic/USD caches
• Pre-roll settling before animation export

Workflow

Garment mesh (quad-friendly) → Vertex groups (pin/collide)
  → Cloth modifier settings → Collision objects
  → Pre-roll settle → Sim pass → Art-direct fixes
  → Bake shape keys / cache → Cleanup → Export