RE: Maya's Nucleus! Looking yummi!

["Andre DeAngelis" <andre.deangelis(at)ubisoft.com>]

I was referring to performance improvements in regard to fast moving objects.  

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss
Sent: February 26, 2007 12:27 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Maya's Nucleus! Looking yummi!

 

problem is "Gerard at Syflex" isnt in a position to do this.
a unified dynamics system isnt going to result from a plugin developers work, it will require far greater integration into the core of xsi.
as it stands syflex is a great system, but its integration is tenuous at best.
i cant recall the last time i typed 0.00001 as a reasonable value for anything in xsi, it doesnt even recognize default xsi forces.

i dont think its wise to rely to heavily on a plugin developer for such fundimental functionality.
by fundamental functionality, i mean a unified dynamics system; syflex has served it purpose as a standalone cloth sim well.

_sam

SAM CUTTRISS
3D AFICIONADO

Andre DeAngelis wrote:

Look at it this way, this will hopefully inspire Gerard at Syflex to

come up with something competitive, especially seeing as Maya was his

largest market.

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf

Of Stefan Andersson

Sent: February 26, 2007 10:43 AM

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Subject: Re: Maya's Nucleus! Looking yummi!

what we are doing now are small characters that is just over a feet

tall. And they have cloth, so it should react a lot stiffer that it

does on a normal sized human. And nCloth did it very well, even with a

dress on a woman which is dancing around quite hectic and cartoony

(this is where Syflex died).

Anyhooo... nuff with the Maya chat...

/stefan

On 2/26/07, Kris Rivel <krisrivel(at)gmail.com> wrote:

I'll have to try it out then.  I like Syflex but it seems a bit

limited at

times.  I've often used XSI's built in cloth in some situations where

I

needed something to move really fast....Syflex often freaks out when

doing

this.  It would be nice to have something like N-cloth if it can do

many

types of cloth like fast moving, stiff surfaces like thick paper.

Kris

On 2/26/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:

We are using nCloth in a production right now, and I must say I'

really impressed. The characters had Syflex on them from a previous

batch of commercials, so now we thought we should try out nCloth.

And

it did a much better job than syflex, not so much faster but easier

to

control and gave better results. Sim times were about the same.

It has a few constraints that really helps when rigging for a

character.

Anyhow... just my thoughts from the dark place.

/stefan

On 2/26/07, Kris Rivel <krisrivel(at)gmail.com> wrote:

 Nice.  I really hope Softimage can step it up in the FX dept.

soon.  I

wonder how it "really" performs though.  I had heard that N-cloth

was a

bit

of a pain and not too production worthy yet.  The idea of

universal

system

for handling all your simulation based stuff does sound very

appealing.

If

this performs as good as it looks, I'll will be using Maya for all

my FX

work for sure.

Kris Rivel

 3D Artist

 kris(at)krisrivel.com

 www.krisrivel.com

 Rui Feliciano wrote:

Waitress, I'll have the same for XSI please!

  http://area.autodesk.com/custom/?id=4547

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