Progress(?) (Patreon)

The last fifth of the animation was causing terrible problems with Maria's pants sim.  I stopped the sim and made changes..  Resuming the sim from a hundred frames earlier showed a bit of improvement.  But still went south at the end.  I ended up retooling the sim 4 times and still nothing fully kept it from spazzing out at the end (even though it got a bit better each time).

Today I tried what I thought would be the "nuclear option."  I added nulls that follow her waist line and used the "nail" feature to make points on her pants follow the nails.  These are non-negotiable..  They HAVE to follow the nails and this will force compliance.

Unfortunately when I tried resuming the last segment of the animation, the points assigned to these nails were several feet away from where Maria was standing.  WHY?!!?

So, with shaky hands, I wanted to see what would happen if I started the sim from frame 0.  So far no problems and the nails are not skewed away.  (Sigh)  I'm so sorry.  I though for sure the pants would be simpler than the shirt.  So this is going to add another day or two of delay. :/  I'm so sorry.  This is one of those things where a beautiful masterpiece of the Mona Lisa could be completely ruined by one clown nose.