Creating cloth

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

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Steps

1. Copy the /sources/scenes from the 'Tutorial resource pack' to the sources directory in the /pack/pack_adbucted directory.
   The file contains the 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.
   
2. 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.
3. 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.