I recently finished up a freelance project where I had to do a cloth simulation on a rather thick piece of geometry that wouldn’t easily simulate with ‘standard’ methods. To overcome this challenge, I discovered a little trick that makes simulating high resolution meshes just as easy as simulating very low-detail, single walled cloth. In a nutshell: Solidify and Mesh Deform. For a full walk-through, I’ve created a short video tutorial covering the topic which can be found here.
-David