Is Syflex Skin/Flesh seriously *that* bad that nobody uses it *at all*? =/
On Jan 10, 2008 3:45 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I apologize in advance if this has been asked before, but I'm trying
> to figure out how to get Syflex Skin (and Flesh would be cool, too) to
> work.
>
> Syflex documentation is rather perplexing and there's virtually no
> tutorials anywhere on how to use it within XSI. There's a Maya
> tutorial here:
> http://www.syflex.biz/tut_skin01.html
> but even though it's Syflex, in XSI things are a little different and
> it leaves me confused still.
>
> Please, can someone shed some light on the subject? =/
>
> I was trying with a sphere enveloped a 3-bone bonechain. I was
> selecting the enveloped mesh and a bigger version (pushed out, frozen
> scaling and frozen modeling stack), and then going to Cloth->Create
> Skin and I also tried selecting the other way around, with no luck.
>
> Sure.. it made the intermediate object (a merged one of the selected
> two meshes) and it applied cloth and skin properties to it, but after
> I applied syGravity and hit Play, it just falls to eternity... it
> doesn't "hang on" at all, but isn't that the whole point of Syflex
> Skin? It's not behaving any different at all from normal syflex cloth.
>
> On a side note, on my Syflex docs, there's a page with 2 missing
> images. I'm very positive I never opened that folder before.
> I'm on 6.02.. can someone confirm that their
> C:\Softimage\XSI_6.02\Doc\Syflex\syflex_cache.html has the first two
> images working? Mine are missing in my install.
> (If anyone has 'em, attach them?)
>
> Any help appreciated. :)
> Cheers,
>
> -- Alan
>
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