How to set properties for Interactive Cloth for different fabrics?

Unity Engine
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Hello,
I am using Interactive Cloth for cloth simulation. I see that we can set some properties like Bending Stiffness, Stretching Stiffness
Damping, Thickness etc. My question is, can I use the values of these properties from real world, directly in the Interactive Cloth properties window?

I designed some clothes for real and got them stitched that I want to use in my 3D model. While I can design the same clothes in 3D, I am struggling to find out how I can set the properties for each garment in Interactive cloth, in a way that my virtual clothes behave the same way as their real world counterparts. I can get the garments tested in a textile lab and obtain the values for Bending, Stretching etc. Can I fill these directly in Interactive Cloth or do I have to “map” them to properties in Interactive cloth? If I have to map them, what is the mapping formula I can use for each property?

Love to hear back from the experts on the forum as well the development team working on Interactive cloth.

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Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has an idea of this - setting properties in Interactive cloth to mimic real life behavior of cloth. Am really looking for inputs on this. Please reply.

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Hi!
I have absolutely no experience using the interactive cloth simulation, but I am convinced you wont get anywhere near realistic behaviour by sending your fabrics to a lab, and entering them into the properties of the cloth simulation.

The cloth engine is a parametrized simulation, and your best bet would be to just start tinkering with all the parameters to get the right feel for each fabric.

N

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Hello Niklas,

Thanks for the reply.
Tinkering with the parameters is an option, but I am working on a solution where I need to work with lot of different types of clothes and doing this kind of tinkering/trial error would be too cumbersome and will be too subjective too. So I am looking for some way to map the real-world properties into the properties in Interactive cloth.
May be I can not enter the values as it is, but is there any mapping/ transformation function I can use to arrive at the values to enter in Interactive cloth.

If we know how the properties are implemented in the code, may be this is possible.

Any ideas/ thoughts on this?