Why does my air field have no effect to the cloth?

[rogerw]

I just made a cloth with the air field effect on it. But even when I increase the mag to 1000, the cloth always drop down.

[kungkrille]

Have you connected it in the relationship editor???
I think also that it will work much better with softbodies...

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[nieder3d]

-if your field is connected to the cloth with a field constraint on the cloth then your problem is iether your solver scale is to low or you need to jack the airfield up higher- like 10000 to 50000, I know it seems high but if you erview the field constraint attribute it states that in order to see the fields they have to be abnormally higher- because the dynamic fields in maya are more so set up for soft and rigid bodies
-but they will work nicely with cloth, I'm currently working on creating a script to help fix this- I ran into a problem where I wanted the fields in my scene affecting the weather so to sat to also effect my characters clothing, now because fields need to have such a high megnatude - if I where to use the same fields all the atmospheric stuff/ weather would go crazy- what I had to do is duplicate all my fields and jack the magnitude way up- the script I'm working on will theoreticaly use the existing field that is linked to the weather in a scene and apply it to the cloth but just increasing the magnitude only for the cloth- so your seen stays lighter and there aren't doubles of all your dynamic fields, etc, etc.
-anyway hope this helps
sid
anything else... sid69graphic@yahoo.com

[rogerw]

thanks a lot sid2000. Please check your mail box. I send a cloth.mb to you. Please check it out, and tell me the problem.

[nieder3d]

I've checked your scene took me about 2 minutes to fix- heres what you didn't do. In order to add a dynamic field to cloth you have to select all the vertex points you wish it to effect on the piece of cloth and then shift select the field you want them effected by and then go to (In the CLOTH MENU SET/ Not the ANIMATION MENU SET.) Constrain>Field Constraint. I've lowered your field back down to 10000 and in your solver attributes if your not fitting something like a garment you don't need a relax frame length, this is just to specify / tell the cloth to act rubbery so to say for 5 frames well it quickly try's to make contact with the collision object. Anything that is already the correct dimmensions, say square flag or table cloth, drapes etc. you need NO relax frame. Also not sure if you know this but when you try to simulate cloth your timeline had to be set to free.
-look in your e-mail for the file.
- no-problem,
sid
sid69graphic@yahoo.com

[rogerw]

Great thanks to you!
I have made a big mistake in the online help.

roger