Help Pause Cloth simulation on just the unfixed particles of a skinned mesh?

[josemendez]

I'm attempting to "pause" the simulation of just the unfixed particles on an Obi cloth that's skinned. The entire mesh is one cloth, and I've used optimize to get rid of the unused particles. 

Turning off the solver pauses the simulation, but it also prevents the mesh from being updated via the skinned mesh renderer. 
If I set the inverse masses of the unfixed particles to zero, they just revert to their original positions. 

I would like to be able to pause the simulation of the particles and have them remain in their current positions, but also be able to move the mesh via the joints in that mesh. 

Has anyone tried this before? I'd appreciate any and all help on this.

Disabling the ObiCloth component should do what you want.