Difference between revisions of "Creating cloth"

Revision as of 14:16, 14 January 2015

In this tutorial you will learn how to create/change cloth. You will also learn how to use XStoryPlayer for storing cloth states.

Copy the /sources/scenes for this tutorial from the 'Tutorial resource pack' to the /pack/pack_adbucted/sources directory.
The files contains the textures and maya cloth meshes for the Saiko (Alien) character.
Open the body.ma file in Maya. Also open the body.ini file in a text editor.
A cloth needs two meshes to work. A bind-mesh that contains the actual pattern of the cloth. If we change this mesh the shape of the cloth is changed.
Then there is also a render-mesh that is used for rendering the cloth. It has a higher sub-division level for more detail.
The dress for example has bind-mesh "dressBindShape" and render-mesh "dressShape".
The render-mesh needs to be positioned around the character so it does not intersect.
In this tutorial we want to change the shape of the dress a bit. We can use the bind-mesh for that.
Change the "dressBindShape" so it looks somewhat like this:

Save the body.ma file. Add the maya convert code to the start.ini of the filemaker:
```
Maya scene
{
  src_path = "[SOURCES]";
  run_path = "[RUNTIME]";
 
  in_file  = "[SOURCES]scenes/character6_cloth/body.ma";
}
```
Run the filemaker and the new cloth objects should be created in the /scenes/character6 directory.

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 Then there is also a render-mesh that is used for rendering the cloth. It has a higher sub-division level for more detail.<br>
 The dress for example has bind-mesh "dressBindShape" and render-mesh "dressShape".<br>
-The render mesh needs to be positioned around the character so it does not intersect.</li>
+The render-mesh needs to be positioned around the character so it does not intersect.</li>
 <li>In this tutorial we want to change the shape of the dress a bit. We can use the bind-mesh for that.<br>
 Change the "dressBindShape" so it looks somewhat like this:<br>