Re: [simulation] syflex, getting a target shape

["Robert Moodie" <robertm(at)hybride.com>]

I did something recently for Snakes where we had a snake passing over a 
nylon surf board cover leaving indents etc where it had passed.

I did the syflex sim (the anim snake mesh was the collision object) and then 
plotted the shapes with a step value of 3 or 4.
This was then nice and easy to sequence/blend in the shape manager. You 
could add your final rest shape and/or any others into the mix and do the 
blending.

It worked out quite nicely for us, actually.

_rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)stanwinston.com>
To: "XSI_MailingList" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: [simulation] syflex, getting a target shape


> I was wondering if anyone has had much experience with syflex, and in
> that experience were able to come up with some sort of rest goal or
> target goal shape that the syflex geometry tries to achieve. It seems
> great for really great for loose flowing dangling cloth. However it if I
> have a particular shape I want it to try and achieve when it comes to
> rest. There really isn't out of the box solution for that. I was
> thinking probably the best solution atm is to have a duplicate geometry
> that is un-sim'd and have that modeled in the desired rest pose, then
> attach syflex spring forces between the posed geometry and the simmed
> geometry. However my concern is that might get a wee bit of the heavy
> side, and I was wondering if there is a more intellegent approach.
>
> Well if anyone has any savvy Ideas, I'd love to hear them.
>
> thanks
>
> Greg
>
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