ok... I give up :) It was so easy with nCloth it's not even funny. 3
clicks and I had a 100 times better result.
So.. anyone have Kai's KP_Cache tool compiled for Maya 2008 on linux?
I need to cache it out to XSI. I don't want to be forced into using
Maya again.. hehehe
regards
stefan
On 5/9/08, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> I know nCloth is a lot better. Right now I'm looking into transfering
> the animation over to maya (hopefully as a geoCache) do the simulation
> and then cache it back to XSI for rendering. I'm still testing XSI
> Cloth and trying to get that one to work, as it would be ideal. But at
> some point I have to stop trying an actually do the job :)
>
> Previously when these characters where done in Maya we did all the
> cloth sim in nCloth. After my evil takeover... moving it all to XSI...
> I miss having nCloth.
>
> regards
>
> stefan
>
>
> On 5/9/08, Kris Rivel <krisrivel(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > To be honest, you should check out Maya's Ncloth...<<ducks>>. It wipes the
> > floor compared to Syflex IMO. I too have also opted for the good old xsi
> > cloth vs. syflex as well for very rigid things. Plus I hate dealing with
> > values that are 1 billionth of a decimal point.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Ben Barker <ben.barker(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Indeed. XSI cloth can also be made to shrink by decreasing the initial
> > > rest length of the springs. AFAIK Syflex in XSI can't do that. A big
> > > downside is that you can't set the initial state on XSI cloth, so I
> > > found it really useful to have a script that applies the cloth
> > > operator and a preset to a rig. That way you can generate your cloth
> > > rig on any frame in any given shot.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > I've noticed... I haven't tested xsi cloth in a long while, and it
> > > > actually seems to be a winner in this first race. So far my tests has
> > > > gone a lot better with xsi cloth than with Syflex.
> > > >
> > > > Tests will continue.
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > > stefan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 5/7/08, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsilist(at)googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > one useful tip is to not forget that you have soft's old cloth too.
> > > > > for some things like small clusters, very rigid cloth and forceful
> > substep
> > > > > eval I found it to be sometimes better than syflex, or if not better
> > to at
> > > > > least give better results with less setup. There's plenty it won't
> > do, but
> > > > > when you find syflex kinda not coping don't forget to give old cloth
> > a shot.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, todd akita <takita(at)earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm about to bark into using cloth for our next two
> > commercials...
> > > > > > > well... gonna make try at using it anyhow. Clothes are tshirts
> > and
> > > > > > > skirts.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > One of the guys in japan made some slight modifications to the base
> > > > > toolbar, some of them are kind of useful or at least good ideas. May
> > need
> > > > > to modify them to work on non-japanese OS.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > http://www.softimage.jp/support/training/user_tips/vol01/index.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -T
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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