Patch Model & Cloth

[tb582]

I have a Patch model with about 750 patches. Has anyone had success animating Maya Cloth
onto a high patch model count? If so... can you tell me the #'s, stitch resolutions, stretch.. etc.
for the cloth ro react? My surface normals are all the right direction. It's taking too long to calculate
each frame. I've got 128 megs of RAM on a TDZ 2000. VX1-13 Graphics card and Xeon 450 mhz
processor.

Philip Cuenco
3D Animation and Digital SPFX

[kaiser-sosa]

First off you dont have enough RAM.. You got just enough to RUN Maya.. Youll need 512 MB for cloth.. Its a Ram pig. 750 is A LOT of Patches.. I usually dont go past 200(mostly up around 100) for a character.. (Teeth and other stuff usually amount to a bit more.) I would make a rebuilt copy a Lorez model . Then I would convert to polys 1 poly per span of Isoparms in the option window. Use the merge multiple edges tool. Start cleaning up extra polys and broken edges. This may take a few more hours..But its worth it. Use that model to do the cloth sim and as a wrap deformer for your hirez model.The wrap deformer will take a WHILE to calculate. You must have the Ram to use it. I would bind your skeletal srtup to the lowrez model, and use it as a wrap deformer when it comes time for rendering since the latency could slow your machine down considerably, even with More RAM..(This has been fixed in 2.5 a bit)

[sid69g]

I would have to agree with the above about your system and using the lo-res poly version to simulate with- as a wrap deformer for the high res the nice thing is if your low-re wrap obj is edited nice like sasid above you can delete the stich history out of your patches with the wrap deformer the seems can't split -it's like throwing a lattice between the high and low res...

-sid69 sid69graphic@yahoo.com
student @ Ex'pression Center for New Media xnewmedia.com