Maya Cloth

[kristine]

Hello... I'm thinking to use Maya cloth for the model I'm using, and I had already read the previous post about Maya Cloth before, but because I'm a new user to Maya; therefore, I might not understand what is some talking about.

I was just wondering how to get thickness in Maya Cloth, because I notice how thin and plain it looks; so I really hope someone can explain how to do this in detail, it would really be appreciated. Or maybe someone know if there's a tutorial on the internet that explain how to do this.

I really want to achieve the liveliness of the cloth skirt I will be doing, should I really use Maya Cloth to get the cloth animation? or just model it and put skeletons on it? Any suggestions?

Have anyone looked at the girl in the short film of ILM? That was such a great short film. I really wanted to achieve the skirt animation effects of that little girl in there, wherer the skirt has a little thickness to itself.
If anyone haven't seen it. Please go to http://www.ilm.com/ilmshorts.html

[ame]

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Hello... I'm thinking to use Maya cloth for the model I'm using, and I had already read the previous post about Maya Cloth before, but because I'm a new user to Maya; therefore, I might not understand what is some talking about.

I was just wondering how to get thickness in Maya Cloth, because I notice how thin and plain it looks; so I really hope someone can explain how to do this in detail, it would really be appreciated. Or maybe someone know if there's a tutorial on the internet that explain how to do this.

I really want to achieve the liveliness of the cloth skirt I will be doing, should I really use Maya Cloth to get the cloth animation? or just model it and put skeletons on it? Any suggestions?

Have anyone looked at the girl in the short film of ILM? That was such a great short film. I really wanted to achieve the skirt animation effects of that little girl in there, wherer the skirt has a little thickness to itself.
If anyone haven't seen it. Please go to http://www.ilm.com/ilmshorts.html

Hello,

I way to go to use give thickness to the cloth is model another object in top with all the detail that you like to have and use a wrap deformer to constraint the low res cloth object (lower the resolution faster the solutions doh) and you can bake the deormations after you are done with your simulations.

Hope this helps.

-a

[kristine]

Sorry.. I'm really new to Maya cloth, what do you really mean by using wrap deformer to constraint the low rez cloth object and model another object in top with all the detail?
and what about bake the deformations?

Can you tell me with more detail and clearly? Thanks sooo much.. I really appreciate for your help..

[exodusmaximus]

I don't intend to sound bad, but read the help on cloth in Maya help section of the program. It covers most of the think you'll need to know about cloth - rest is just using your imagination
In Maya : help --> Library, or just press F1 on keyboard
Wrap deformer After you create the cloth and lets say pocket (nurbs model for instance) select pocket (surface you made) and then cloth (while holding ctrl key) go to deform --> create wrap - now the packet will be influenced by cloth.
You can also create a cloth from nurbs geometry (but it is slow unstable and controll of it stinks)
Cya

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Sorry.. I'm really new to Maya cloth, what do you really mean by using wrap deformer to constraint the low rez cloth object and model another object in top with all the detail?
and what about bake the deformations?

Can you tell me with more detail and clearly? Thanks sooo much.. I really appreciate for your help..