Washing Machine animation

[ZoltanVW]

Hi!
Why do you want to *simulate* this in realtime? Wouldn’t a simple animation be enough?

In case you need to simulate this, it should be possible, but will be very expensive as cloth inside a washing machine drum generates lots of self- and inter- collisions at considerably high speed. This requires using a small timestep to prevent tangling.

I’d advise against trying to simulate this if at all possible.

Hi,
Thanks for your reply!
They'll be all videos in the end using Recorder, so it doesn't matter if it's expensive. The models themselves will be used in a design editor and they'll come with videos, showcasing their features. (we do them in Unity) They need to look believable. I've never delved myself into cloth animation too much, so it is quite a new area for me and I'm looking for a solution. I was thinking of animating it manually, but I doubt that would look real enough as I am more of a modeler. We have all kinds of appliances and I've got the washing machines this time around and an encouraging "Good luck, we have no idea how to do it!"  I've tried to do it in Unity, surrounding the drum with a lot of capsule colliders but the cloth either got shot out of space, or turned inside out and slid out of the drum eventually. And Unity doesn't support 3ds max cloth simulations unfortunately. So I hoped maybe obiCloth could do it. Or if you could lead me to a better solution, I'd appreciate it!