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... I just don't even know how to start this one... I don't know what it is about my obsession to recreate game engine aspects, lighting, physics, whatever ... The last time I adjusted my Blender Soft Body methods, I still knew something wasn't right. All my testing on basic meshes was fine, but using those techniques on actual costumes lead to clipping issues, high bake times, or both. I typically opted for low bake times which left my animations at a deficit, leaving soft animations with the immobile uni-boob. This may look like past animations, but I did some serious practice building on a false start from a few months ago.

I discovered that meshes can have multiple skeletons, even multiples with overlapping bone names. That took me down the path of tinkering with objects that could be parented in a variety of ways. In the end, I didn't need multiple skeletons, but I crafted this crazy hybrid of a skeleton with inverse kinematics applied to a simple mesh with physics, allowing that to drive the normal bones, and then apply a regular soft body modifier after all that. Now, I think that it's closer to emulating game-esque physics. It may sound complicated, but once the process is worked out it totally saves a ton of bake time, allows for diverse soft regions on the same mesh and even works with more complex animations unlike my older methods.

Credits
Dead or Alive Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)

Description
... I just don't even know how to start this one... I don't know what it is about my obsession to recreate game engine aspects, lighting, physics, whatever ... The last time I adjusted my Blender Soft Body methods, I still knew something wasn't right. All my testing on basic meshes was fine, but using those techniques on actual costumes lead to clipping issues, high bake times, or both. I typically opted for low bake times which left my animations at a deficit, leaving soft animations with the immobile uni-boob. This may look like past animations, but I did some serious practice building on a false start from a few months ago.

I discovered that meshes can have multiple skeletons, even multiples with overlapping bone names. That took me down the path of tinkering with objects that could be parented in a variety of ways. In the end, I didn't need multiple skeletons, but I crafted this crazy hybrid of a skeleton with inverse kinematics applied to a simple mesh with physics, allowing that to drive the normal bones, and then apply a regular soft body modifier after all that. Now, I think that it's closer to emulating game-esque physics. It may sound complicated, but once the process is worked out it totally saves a ton of bake time, allows for diverse soft regions on the same mesh and even works with more complex animations unlike my older methods.

Credits
Dead or Alive Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)