I don't have 2008 yet so I don't have the nCloth option. I'm just waiting for a graphics card in the mail before I get 2008, then I will try the nCloth ideas... thanks for the help though. And sorry...

well I've still been working on this little by little... the cloth for clothing doesn't seem to be working out for me so I scrapped that idea at the moment and have modeled pants and a shirt onto...

yup collision objects are set.
it sounds like the not high enough mesh is pretty logical since the mesh and it's collision object push off of eachothers vertices, so you need more verts on the cloth...

well since no one seemed to be able to help me here I went to cgsociety and asked the same question, and got a response that it's because my pants are at too low of a resolution. So now I have to...

ok here's the playblast now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykB-aiNseKw

cpDefaultProperty

U Bend Resistance: 10
V Bend Resistance: 10
U Bend Rate: 0
V Bend Rate: 0
U Stretch Resistance: 50
U Stretch Resistance: 50
Shear Resistance: 45
U Scale: 1

alright so I've been working on learning cloth, have the guy all rigged, and started with making pants. Turned out alright.
Until I started test animations. When the leg moves the pants go with it...

alright I know it doesn't look like much but I've completed the rigging and binding the skin. I still have to go in and do some small tweaks here and there but I'm pretty much done with it. Now onto...

I'm just bumping this because I'm diving back into it when I wake up tomorrow afternoon. Have to try to remember where I left off on the rigging section.

yeah I can't do a ps2 connection because my computer only has usb. I'm still attempting a few things before I follow through and start all over again, like I said, I don't want to lose last weeks...