Maya Cloth & Realflow

[allegro]

Has anyone tried mixing realflow with maya cloth?

How would one make the cloth / water interact?

Say I have a character, which I have already animated. And then I give him Maya Clothes after animating him. Now I take that into realflow so that I can generate wet maps. My problem is that when I take an sd into realflow, it doesn't let my scene react to water... so... I can generate wetmaps... but the cloth itself doesn't interact with the water.

Maybe I need to just bring in the character, and blast him with water, then take the water into maya and then add the clothes? that should make it interact with the water.... then I'd have to take it back to realflow to generate the wetmaps?

Does anyone have a better solution than this kind of pingpong type of method? Will this method even work?

[drblacksnake]

not sure but for me it seems the problem is that You cannot turn flow object into collider, because it shifts its shape to new one each frame.
on other hand I doubt realFlow would understand cloth's cache, so bake cloth sim and make sure you have animated vertices instead of cloth's cache.
then again i doubt realFlow will affect cloth itself, but at least You'll get appropriate water shape in maya, where You can alter cloth animation (not sim) manually. softBody thing could be useful, You just should paint animated weight maps for targets (same maps later could be used as wetmaps for shader, just blur them a bit). again I don't know how it would work so perhaps try out on small piece of simple geo.
and again - after You have altered cloth's anim (bake vtx again if necessary), put it back in realFlow in same sim and regenerate water shapes.
and again - see how it looks in maya and use previous altering method to have a final touch on cloth movement.
good luck and report back about Your progress at this.