Re: syflex cloth

["Ahmidou Lyazidi" <ahmidou.xsi(at)gmail.com>]

This make me sick.....

2008/5/9 Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>:

here is the 3 clicks :)

http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/MayanCloth.mov

/stefan

On 5/9/08, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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