How much storytelling can you do with a few yards of cloth? If you're FromSoftware, a whole freaking lot! In Elden Ring and FromSoftware's evergrowing catalog of solemn sword adventures, there's an astounding amount of attention paid to cloth. The shape, the texture, the movement. But why? Polygon's resident man of the cloth Patrick is here to break it all down.

0:00 Elden Ring's secret weapon
1:12 Make, material, and movement
2:20 How cloth makes monsters
3:46 How material tells stories
9:41 How cloth moves
14:16 Getting ready for Shadow of the Erdtree

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