Re: constrain nulls to cloth vertices

Date : Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:19:13 -0000 (GMT)
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : bob(at)tekano.co.uk
Subject : Re: constrain nulls to cloth vertices
have you tried this with syflex cache rather than live sim?


On Thu, November 30, 2006 2:56 pm, Jeff Powell wrote:
> Hi,
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> This seems pretty straightforward on the surface but I can't get it to
> work. I rarely use cloth (XSI or Syflex) so please bear with me :-)
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> I'm trying to constrain some nulls to an animated (XSI cloth sim) flag;
> one per vert. For argument's sake, shape animating the flag is out of the
> question :-)
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> If I mute the cloth sim and create a 'cluster with center' for each
> vert, when I move each resultant cluster centre null, the vert follows as
> expected...the vert is constrained to this null, however I need the
> opposite of this; I need a null constrained to each vert. So I think if I
> constrain another null to each cluster centre, all will be well; nulls
> will follow nulls.
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> However as soon as I unmute the sim, the cluster centres don't follow
> their respective clusters on the cloth, so there's no point in further
> constraining anything to these; it's as if the cloth sim ignores/overrides
> any constraints.
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> Am I being dumb here? What's the best way to constrain anything to the
> verts of sim animated object? Is it possible?
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> TIA,
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> Jeff.
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