Animation on soft bodies. :bang

[talent103]

I am trying to animate a silk scarve wraping around an arm. I have done this by animating a deform by curve. The wraping part works fine. Now I want to make it look like cloth. When I apply the soft body to selection and then in the Dynamics tab I check "Use Body animation" and "solid body center" my animation does not work. I thought if I had these options checked that the animation for the object would still apply with the soft cloth. Is there a way to have thee silk scarve wrap around the arm and have it look like cloth? I tried to make it cloth as well but again the animation did not work and I pre rolled it at -100 . Any help or suggestions.

[sunder]

The Use Body Animation uses SRT animation for soft body dynamics and not really the deformation. If you did set it up to move along the curve, take note that its a little hard to get the soft body to stick properly to the arm. You might be better off hand-animating your curve-deformed silk scarve with shape animation to get that cloth look.
If you have XSI Advanced, I'd recommend using Syflex for your cloth stuff instead of soft bodies.

[talent103]

The Use Body Animation uses SRT animation for soft body dynamics and not really the deformation. If you did set it up to move along the curve, take note that its a little hard to get the soft body to stick properly to the arm. You might be better off hand-animating your curve-deformed silk scarve with shape animation to get that cloth look.
If you have XSI Advanced, I'd recommend using Syflex for your cloth stuff instead of soft bodies.
I also tried syflex but again they dont work together. I even plotted thee animation of the curve and the shape animation of thee cloth and when I try to use both in the animation mixer they would not work together. I wound up using deform by curve then by wave and finally by shrinkwrap. Here is the final result.

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jrs444/done_QT.mov

[talent103]

I also tried syflex but again they dont work together. I even plotted thee animation of the curve and the shape animation of thee cloth and when I try to use both in the animation mixer they would not work together. I wound up using deform by curve then by wave and finally by shrinkwrap. Here is the final result.

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jrs444/done_QT.mov
I found the way to use soft body/ syflex with a curve deform.
http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/xsidocs/ef446522.htm