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I continued experimenting dForce in DAZ Studio. Here is my latest find: the simulation of a swinging chain.
See the video here.
As you can see, there are still some imperfections, some jolts, probably due to small errors in the detection of collisions. But after all, dForce was not designed for that (at least in its current version).
In the ZIP you will find the corresponding scene file (for DAZ Studio 4.10+). Do not hesitate to play with. Let me know if you achieve something interesting with it.

If not yet, please, read my main tutorial about dForce: dForce experimentsdForce Experiments

(Wow! This sounds like a sci-fi thriller title!)
Hi users of DAZ Studio,
I don't know about you, but for me dForce was by far the most awaited feature in DAZ Studio. So I have played with it for a while, and now it's time to share the tips I discovered. But first of all, if not yet, please read carefully this post in DAZ forums. This article is for those who are already a bit familiar with DAZ Studio, who have a minimum understanding of dFotce and know where to find its settings. If you're an expert, please keep on reading, perhaps you will find information that will surprise you anyway.
How to prevent dForce from exploding your mesh?
This is a frustrating and very discouraging disadvantage when working with dForce: you spend hours polishing your garment model, dressing your character with it and tweaking a wonderful material ... but.

Following my tests that I described in the article mentioned above, I wanted to put into practice my discoveries in more concrete applications.

I thought about creating earrings. It turned out to be a lot harder than I thought: the rings came off each other and went off in all directions during simulation.

Finally I came to understand that I had forced too much on the damping. The setting of the damping is really very delicate: too strong or too weak, the result is just as erratic! I had to change the damping values in very small amounts between each test, until a result was almost correct. It is a long and tedious process. You have to be patient and obstinate!

For the other dForce parameters of the rings, however, things went more smoothly. Here are the principles that I implemented.

The first ring is a static dForce object. The others are dynamic. The cone is a dynamic add-on.

To obtain a solid metal object effect, the mesh of the rings is not very dense. I applied a subdivision to it that guarantees its smooth shape and better collision detection (I set the collision detection resolution to viewport in the main Simulation Settings panel). At the same time, I increased all stiffness values as high as possible and I decreased the Buckling Ratio as low as possible. But beware! On my system any value at 100% or at 0 caused the crash of dForce.

I increased the Density (GSM) value too for more realism. But this is for the surface, it does not take into account the volume, so I had to exaggerate.

Finally I've set the FPS multiplier in the Simulation Settings panel at 35 to force better prcision in calculations.

Please, download and study the scene file carefully. Feel free to play with, change things, do your own experiments.

Have a creative day !

Description
I continued experimenting dForce in DAZ Studio. Here is my latest find: the simulation of a swinging chain.
See the video here.
As you can see, there are still some imperfections, some jolts, probably due to small errors in the detection of collisions. But after all, dForce was not designed for that (at least in its current version).
In the ZIP you will find the corresponding scene file (for DAZ Studio 4.10+). Do not hesitate to play with. Let me know if you achieve something interesting with it.

If not yet, please, read my main tutorial about dForce: dForce experimentsdForce Experiments

(Wow! This sounds like a sci-fi thriller title!)
Hi users of DAZ Studio,
I don't know about you, but for me dForce was by far the most awaited feature in DAZ Studio. So I have played with it for a while, and now it's time to share the tips I discovered. But first of all, if not yet, please read carefully this post in DAZ forums. This article is for those who are already a bit familiar with DAZ Studio, who have a minimum understanding of dFotce and know where to find its settings. If you're an expert, please keep on reading, perhaps you will find information that will surprise you anyway.
How to prevent dForce from exploding your mesh?
This is a frustrating and very discouraging disadvantage when working with dForce: you spend hours polishing your garment model, dressing your character with it and tweaking a wonderful material ... but.

Following my tests that I described in the article mentioned above, I wanted to put into practice my discoveries in more concrete applications.

I thought about creating earrings. It turned out to be a lot harder than I thought: the rings came off each other and went off in all directions during simulation.

Finally I came to understand that I had forced too much on the damping. The setting of the damping is really very delicate: too strong or too weak, the result is just as erratic! I had to change the damping values in very small amounts between each test, until a result was almost correct. It is a long and tedious process. You have to be patient and obstinate!

For the other dForce parameters of the rings, however, things went more smoothly. Here are the principles that I implemented.

The first ring is a static dForce object. The others are dynamic. The cone is a dynamic add-on.

To obtain a solid metal object effect, the mesh of the rings is not very dense. I applied a subdivision to it that guarantees its smooth shape and better collision detection (I set the collision detection resolution to viewport in the main Simulation Settings panel). At the same time, I increased all stiffness values as high as possible and I decreased the Buckling Ratio as low as possible. But beware! On my system any value at 100% or at 0 caused the crash of dForce.

I increased the Density (GSM) value too for more realism. But this is for the surface, it does not take into account the volume, so I had to exaggerate.

Finally I've set the FPS multiplier in the Simulation Settings panel at 35 to force better prcision in calculations.

Please, download and study the scene file carefully. Feel free to play with, change things, do your own experiments.

Have a creative day !