Follows the body
Folds change with the driver bones, frame by frame — not with a timeline or a state machine.
Unreal Engine 5.8 plugin · Beta
Cloth Wrinkle Solver
The real-time half of Looma. It reads the driver bones every frame and shows the wrinkle maps that fit the pose — folds that follow the body, with no empty frames and a fixed shader cost.
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Pose
Wrinkle maps
An illustration in your browser: five wrinkle maps of a T-shirt pattern handing over to each other as the arms rise.
On screen
Folds that belong to the pose.
You bake a wrinkle map for each pose that matters. The runtime does the rest: every frame it works out which of your maps fit the body right now, and how much each one should show.
You don't wire curves by hand, and no pose falls between the cracks.
No empty frames
Wherever the pose goes, there are folds. They don't drop out between the poses you authored.
No popping
Moving from one pose to the next is a smooth hand-over, not a switch.
Calm on fast motion
A guard on how quickly folds may change keeps snaps and quick turns from flickering.
Analyzer
The pose set, chosen from your animations.
Which poses deserve a map? Point the analyzer at your animations and it proposes a set that covers them — then shows how it holds up on clips it never saw.
Your whole pack
Add animations or whole folders. Mark what the set must be tuned for and what it only has to cover.
Must-have poses
Tell it which poses have to be in the set. It builds the rest around them.
The smallest set that works
It compares sets of different sizes and recommends the smallest that holds up — fewer maps to bake.
Checked on unseen clips
Every result is measured on animations the analyzer didn't learn from, so a set can't just look good on paper.
Re-tune when animations change
A changed animation pack gets new runtime presets — livelier, cleaner, calmer — without re-baking a single map.
Headless, too
A commandlet runs the same analysis from the command line, and the pose set is plain JSON.
Material
One material function. Any number of poses.
Drop the material function into your cloth material. It adds the live folds onto your base normal.
- Fixed cost per pixel.However many poses the set has, the graph and its cost never change: new maps are new slices of one texture array.
- Packed or single maps.Single maps in BC5, or two to a texture in BC7 for half the memory.
- A whole outfit on one mesh.Up to three regions — shirt, shorts, socks — each with its own pose set, picked by a section mask.
- Folds that keep their edge.Detail Contrast keeps fine folds crisp where maps mix.
MI_ClothWrinkle_ShirtMaterial Instance
Wrinkles
WrinkleMapsPackedT_Shirt_WrinkleArray
PackedMaps
WrinkleStrength1.1
Regions
UseSectionMask
SectionMaskT_Kit_SectionMask
Detail
DetailContrastBlend
DetailContrast0.75
Two ways to drive it
In the Anim Blueprint, or on the actor.
Wrinkle Pose Solver
Add the node to your Animation Blueprint. It writes one curve per pose, plus optional diagnostic curves.
- Fits rigs that already drive materials from curves
- Debug view of what's active
Wrinkle Material Driver
Add the component to the character. It solves from the skeletal mesh's pose — or reads the node's curves — and writes straight to the cloth components.
- Custom Primitive Data, or one scalar parameter per pose for your own material
- Extra sections for outfits, all from one body pose
- An Alpha to fade it per character, from Blueprint
Setup
From animations to folds in six steps.
Analyse
Create an analysis setup, add your animations and run it. Pick the set size you want.
Write the pose set
One click writes the pose set asset and a document Looma can read.
Bake in Looma
Import the document in Looma, simulate and bake one wrinkle map per pose.
Build the maps
Add the maps and press Build: they're matched to poses by name and packed into a texture array.
Drive
Add the AnimGraph node or the Wrinkle Material Driver component to the character.
Shade
Use the cloth material, set its texture array and how deep the folds should be. Done.
Looma bridge
Maps arrive by themselves.
Send finished maps from Looma, or let an assistant do it. The editor picks them up from the project's inbox, imports them as normal textures, updates the pose set and writes a receipt Looma can read back.
Loomafinished bake
in
Project inboxpicked up by the editor
UE
Textures + pose setimported and updated
✓
Receiptread back by Looma
Specifications
The technical bits.
The plugin is in beta. This is what the current version does.
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Platform | Win64 |
| Cloth | Chaos Cloth components; any material that uses the material function |
| Modules | Runtime · Editor · Analyzer |
| Drivers | Wrinkle Pose Solver AnimGraph node · Wrinkle Material Driver component |
| Outputs | Custom Primitive Data or scalar parameters |
| Shader cost | Fixed per pixel, independent of the number of poses |
| Textures | Texture2DArray · BC5 single maps or BC7 packed pairs |
| Regions | Up to 3 per mesh, each with its own pose set |
| Pipelines | Pose sets as JSON · headless analysis commandlet |
Put it on your character.
Early-access studios get the runtime, Looma, and our help taking the first garment from animations to folds.