Some time ago, someone asked in the forums about a mask made of silk/nylon made from ladies undergarments, akin to those worn by gangsters when they attack a bank or some other place to ransack it. I can't find that topic again for the sake of my own life but in case the person who asked for it might still be around, I think I just figured out how to do it. I hope it helps.
The solution I devised makes use of two products: LightBLUE's dForce condom and a shaders presets kit called Uber+Iray Sheer and Silky.
- First, you'll have to position your gangster, and that includes giving him an expression that won't be too extreme, due to the process limitations. You want to avoid poke-through.
- Then, load the condom. Orient it over the character's head, enlarge it as needed. Make sure nothing of the character's head pokes through the condom at this stage.
- Now, define the collision item in the condom's Parameters tab as being the character.
- Launch you simulation.
- Once this is done, you might want to lrun a quick, low profile render or two, to identify poke-through spots. Using the thickness settings provided with LightBLUE's condom, you will probably improve on the situation a bit. Then, playing with the Smoothing and Collision iterations values in the condom's Parameters tab, you will easily eliminate the remaining glitches.
-The last bit: using the Sheer and Silky shader presets, give your condom the texture and shine of a lady's nylon stocking. I tried with silk, but it doesn't work as well as nylon, for some reason. It doesn't look threatening enough :). Playing with the different options in there, you will most certainly find a look that rocks your boat.
I would recommend that you morph the ears closer to the head on the gangster's head. Two reasons for that: first, a stocking would press a human ear against the head anyway, due to the tension in the fabric. Secondly, that will prevent more poke-through.
Note: you have two ways to go with this method. You can either do the whole thing and not move your character or repose him/her at all, or you'll have to parent the condom/stocking to your character's head before you move that person around in your scene. The condom is not a conformable item and will not reshape itself. If you change your character's general stance, lock the parts which are in direct contact with the mask as to... yes, you guessed it: avoid poke-through.
There you go! I hope this little trick I came up with will be useful to some of you out there. I had fun experimenting with that and I'd like to tip my hat to LightBLUE for this versatile condom product. Not only does it make a really nifty mask, but it proves an important point: bank robbers and burglars really are a bunch of dicks. 
Edited by user Sunday, February 10, 2019 9:04:26 AM(UTC)
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