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Learning nCloth

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Overview

Explore the fundamentals of nCloth—the Maya toolkit for simulating cloth and other dynamic surfaces—and basic character visual effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. Getting Started in Simulation and Character FX
  • Hands-on with a simulation solver
  • Principles of dynamics
  • Dynamics in computer graphics
  • How a spring-based cloth solver works
2. Setting Up the Simulation World and Objects
  • Setting up a simulation test scene
  • Nucleus: The simulation world
  • nCloth: Let's talk collisions
  • nCloth: Dynamic properties
  • nCloth: Scaling relation
  • Playful practice with primitives
3. Understanding the Look and Feel of Fabrics and Soft Bodies
  • Reference materials
  • Topology and the simulation results
  • Designing with nCloth
  • Master nCloth look and feel
4. Creating a Physically Realistic Flag
  • Setting up the scene
  • Setting up nCloth and nucleus
  • Adding a constraint
  • Tweaking the look of the flag
  • Adding wind
  • Freezing the simulation
  • Importing Maya caches and playblast
5. Production Challenges
  • Challenge: The most awesome pirate ship flag ever
  • Solution: The most awesome pirate ship flag ever
  • Challenge: Do the laundry
  • Solution: Do the laundry
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David F Durand

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