Show in Contents

Add to Favorites

Home: Autodesk Maya Online Help

 

Caching nCloth to speed up playback

Lesson 3: Creating nCloth Clothing

Defining the behavior of nCloth clothing

 

Learning Resources > Tutorials > Getting Started with Maya Unlimited > nCloth > Lesson 3: Creating nCloth Clothing > 

Adjusting the fit of the dress

You will notice during playback that the dress (especially the straps) do not actually touch the body. This is because the collision volumes of both the character and the dress are too thick. This means that Maya believes the two are in contact when they are not. You can fix this by adjusting the collision thickness of both objects.

To adjust the collision thickness of the dress

1. Select the dress.
2. Open the Attribute Editor select the nClothShape1 tab.
3. In the Collisions section set Collision Flag to Face, Self Collision Flag to Vertex Face, set Thickness to 0.066 and Self Collide Width Scale to 1.885.
4. Select the character model.
5. From the Attribute Editor select the nRigidShape1 tab.
6. In the Collisions section set Thickness to 0.083.
7. Playback the nCloth simulation.

   Notice that the simulation appears exactly the same as before. This is because you are actually playing your cached simulation. In order to view your changes, you will need to make a new cache.

To make a new cache for your nCloth simulation

1. Select the dress.
2. Select nCache > Create New Cache.

   Maya automatically plays back the nCloth simulation and saves it to disk as a cache.

3. Playback the scene.

   The dress now appears to rest on the character’s skin.