Rigid nCloth shells

You can now apply Rigidity and Deform Resistance to the individual polygon shells that make up your nCloth mesh. When meshes made from individual polygon shells are converted to nCloth, a new Use Polygon Shell attribute enables Rigidity and Deform Resistance on each shell. The shells then behave as individual rigid objects in simulations. Use Polygon Shells is useful for creating simple destruction and other rigid self-colliding effects. Create rigid nCloth shells Use Polygon Shells Watch: Rigid nCloth shells

Local Force and Local Wind

New Local Force and Local Wind attributes let you apply gravity and wind to individual nCloth objects. These forces are applied locally and do not affect other Nucleus objects that are assigned to the same solver.

You can use Local Force to reduce or increase the effects of gravity on specific nCloth objects, making the garments appear lighter or heavier than other articles of a character's clothing. By adding Local Wind, you can create gusts of wind that act on specific areas of a character's clothing such as a flowing cape.

• Local Force
• Local Wind

Collide Last Threshold

A new Collide Last Threshold sets whether or not a collision iteration is the last calculation performed each simulated step. Collision Last Threshold helps ensure that nCloth collisions with Nucleus objects are resolved at the end of a step, decreasing the chance of bad collisions in the subsequent frames.

• Collide Last Threshold

Input Motion Drag

Using Input Motion Drag, you can now apply a force to an nCloth which is based on the motion of an animated input mesh. This force is derived from the difference between the current velocity of the nCloth object and the velocity of its animated input mesh. An Input Motion Drag value of 1 means that the force will cause the nCloth object to follow the same path as its input mesh. An Input Motion Drag value of 0 has no effect on the nCloth object. You do not need to have Input Mesh Attract set to use Input Motion Drag.

• Input Motion Drag

nCloth performance improvements

Additional Nucleus solver threading improves the performance of nCloth simulations. Better performance is most noticeable when playing back simulations with multiple nCloth objects connected to the same Nucleus solver. In this case, computations for self-colliding surfaces and stretch resistance are threaded.

Paintable attributes

A number of attributes have been added to the list of paintable nCloth properties. You can now can use the Paint nCloth Attributes Tool to create vertex maps and texture maps for the following attributes:

• Bend Angle Dropoff
• Restitution Angle
• Damp
• Lift
• Drag
• Tangential Drag

• nMesh > Paint Vertex Properties
• nMesh > Paint Texture Properties
• nMesh > Convert Texture to Vertex Map
• nMesh > Convert Vertex to Texture Map
• Dynamic Properties Maps