Cloth Sim

by arjun988

Cloth Sim is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by arjun988 in blender-skills.

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Install Cloth Sim

Copy Cloth Sim into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/arjun988/blender-skills/tree/main/.claude/skills/cloth-sim ~/.claude/skills/cloth-sim

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/arjun988/blender-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/cloth-sim/SKILL.md in arjun988/blender-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cloth-sim
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Cloth Sim does

Cloth Sim guides garment blockout, cloth simulation, pin groups, and baking to shape keys or caches in Blender. Use it for draping clothing, settling sim before export, and preparing engine-friendly results.

Cloth Sim is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Cloth Sim comes from a repository tagged 3d-models, agent, agent-skills, blender and blender-addon.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cloth Sim

Garment blockout → sim → art-direct → bake. Stable pins. Engine-friendly caches/shape keys.

When to Use

Dresses, capes, coats, flags, banners
Character clothing that needs drape
Baking sim to shape keys or Alembic/USD caches
Pre-roll settling before animation export

Workflow

Garment mesh (quad-friendly) → Vertex groups (pin/collide)
  → Cloth modifier settings → Collision objects
  → Pre-roll settle → Sim pass → Art-direct fixes
  → Bake shape keys / cache → Cleanup → Export

Mesh Prep

Quads preferred; even density on deforming areas
Avoid long skinny triangles on folds
Apply scale before sim
Separate garment from body collider

Vertex Groups

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cloth Sim

What else does arjun988 publish alongside Cloth Sim?
Cloth Sim is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from arjun988/blender-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analog Found Footage Horror, Animation and Anime Style. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cloth Sim does, and is maintained by arjun988 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the arjun988/blender-skills page.
How does Cloth Sim compare to other Automation skills?
Cloth Sim ranks #1970 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cloth Sim against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.