Re: "Rescale" on syflex in XSI

["Meng-Yang Lu" <ntmonkey(at)gmail.com>]

In the Syflex plug-in for maya, it's called the wrinkle map.  I've been sorta digging in the docs for the Syflex in XSI and I don't see anything regarding it.  Essentially, it does exactly what you're talking about.  You can paint the map, let it settle, and set that as the new initial state (don't know about spring state since the map still has to be applied).  I'm on wing-duty here as well and had to use it to trim up the excess on the stretchy part of the membrane when the wing tucks.  It can be done I guess if it's working on my end.  I can't find that functionality anywhere in XSI.  

Not sure exactly what you're doing, but I've got a cool wing setup using a mix between a NURBs patch and syflex cloth, and a blend between using a wrap deformer...  If you think that'll help, I can email you the how's and whys.  

peace,

Lu

On 11/2/06, Ben Barker <ben.barker(at)gmail.com> wrote:

I'm doing cloth sim on a character now that needs a lot of tension in
the cloth (wings). I've noticed several Maya Syflex tutorials mention
a "rescale" attribute that lets the cloth tend to shrink or expand.
That is, it seems to scale the rest length on the springs.

This is completely necessary for what I am doing, but I can't seem to
find this setting in XSI Syflex. I don't even see a parameter that
stores spring rest length, it seems to be internal to the operator.

As a result I am using XSI cloth, which has this option in "tension".
It is working well, but in the future XSI cloth might not cut it. Also
we have some scripts that set the syflex's initial state from another
mesh, it would be nice to reset the spring rest length as well.

I don't think I could implement this as a custom force since it would
fight the rest length and might result in instability but perhaps I am
wrong. Thoughts?

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Ben Barker
Character TD
CafeFX
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