question about making curtains in 3ds max

[kaos78414 24]

I've been dormant for awhile because I think that I need more practice with these programs before I start releasing stuff. I've been working on a lot of stuff lately, and I'm now stumped on making cloth and curtains and I have looked at many tutorials, and when I do the tutorials it comes out perfectly. (I am working in 3ds max 9)

When I try to do it in my own way, the only difference in the way I do it and the tutorials way of doing it is that I use feet and inches measurements... Is there some correlation to reactor cloth not working and feet and inches?

For instance, I want to create a 3 foot radius table and a 6.5 x 6.5 foot table cloth to drape over it (for practice). When I click create simulation all I get is the cloth disappearing after the first frame, or if I attach some vertices of the cloth to the table then the cloth just goes crazy during the simulation.

Using cloth may not seem necessary for BATing but I was thinking of making an outdoor theatre that would have curtains so I think those minor details is what makes or breaks a model. Does anyone have an idea to what my problem might be?

[ianpaschal 77]

here's how I make my curtains, and yes I use them a lot, here's a building that uses this technique:

First I draw a sort of lighting bolt shape, but with a lot of back and forth. Then I extrude it but make loads of segments. Then convert to a poly. If you use vertex selection and turn on soft selection (this is also in the modifier roll) you can expand some parts, and tighten others.

[Jasoncw 11,933]

That's a good idea Scipio.

[kaos78414 24]

Scipio could you take a close - up of the curtains? So you don't use the cloth modifier or anything ? The problem I'm having is with the cloth modifier, and the reactor cloth modifier, but I'll give that a shot also, as it will be good for the BAT purposes. I'm also trying to make an interior type of curtain, something like this:

And a table cloth type material.

And I really I guess am just trying to trouble shoot my problem with the cloth and reactor cloth modifiers, try to see what I'm doing wrong in the process, because in the tutorials it works fine..