Tarp sim GH kangaroo

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Roland -

@3dsynergy

I have to create tarps, the blue ones in the attached image, for an urban model and I’m wondering if GH/kangaroo is the way to go.

It might be but that image is very small (: I would upload a Grasshopper file if you have started something or at least a Rhino file of the context.

At any rate, perhaps these get you going…

How to create a circus tent with believable fabric folds/flaps etc?

I completely agree that for simple things like a panel with a slight sag, there’s no reason to simulate for visual purposes. Also I expect that the finer wrinkles and creases in the fabric in the first images posted are just a good texture or bump map. For more complex folded fabrics though, I think I’d struggle to make it look realistic just modelling manually. Anyway, here’s another example with some draping over solid objects. drape_over.gh (52.1 KB) [image] One issue I was sometimes fi…

Kangaroo2 Floor

If you mean draping over a solid object, yes - see the drape.gh example here: edit - another example here: [image]

-wim