Various nCloth Exercises

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Exercise #1: nCloth Collision

A simple exercise showcasing the basics of nCloth such as physics simulation.
Learned:
Setting up an nCloth Object.
Creating a passive collider.

Exercise #2: Flag

A project in which I created a flag that hung on a pole and reacted to wind blowing.
Learned:
Surface Constraints
nCloth wind

Exercise #3: Cape

Similar to the previous exercise except I tried applying it to a cape I added to an exercise from a previous course.

Exercise #4: nCloth Sphere

For this exercise, I got curious to see how nCloth would work if it was applied to a 3D shape such as a sphere. I also tried some of the presets to see how they react differently from one another.
Learned:
nCloth has uses on non plane objects.
nCloth presets result in drastically different effects.

Exercise #5: Ghost

A project I wanted to do for a while was using nCloth to create a simple ghost that would float around the screen. I attempted to have the the sphere in the ghost glow using emission and a slightly transparent cloth but the result was not what I hoped for.
Learned:
Motion Paths

Exercise #6: nCloth Grass

In this I attempted to revisit my grass idea I tried in MASH but with nCloth instead. It appeared to work better but not perfectly. I was able to combine nCloth and MASH by turning the repro mesh into an nCloth object.
Learned:
   Combining nCloth and MASH
   Having a moving passive collider collide with the nCloth
   Having an nCloth object stand up straight with wind.

Exercise #7: nCloth Sphere (Cont.)

A minor exercise in which I had an nCloth sphere hit a wall to see if I could use MASH to apply an initial velocity to an object affected by nCloth. This failed but I used keyframes and the local force attribute to simulate an initial velocity.
Learned:
MASH and nCloth dynamics cannot interact with one another.