Cloth/Soft Bodies in Maya

[oneinfiniteloop]

I have Maya Complete, so, unfortunately, I don't have Maya Cloth. I was looking at Syflex academic, but I was curios if anyone knows a way of using soft bodies to act like cloth. I want to have my character pulling a "sheet" of a covered block of text, any clues, links, tuts?

[Anhar Miah]

well in Max that would be dead simple what you wanna do, however as for Maya I don;t know, I was gonna do a simple mock up in Max, buuut.... my computer is on the verge of dying, its keeps thermally cutting off, my temps are reading as of right now, 43C for my CPU, 79C for temp2, 49C for HDD, and 70C for Temp1, I've got a table fan blowing on the inlet to try and give some more cooling effect, hehe.

trying to use anything more than surfin' stress to CPU to shutdown.

Anhar

[bgundu]

Yes you can use softbodies to work like Maya Cloth. I created a 5 disk DVD set for Alias with one of the DVDs about Dynamics.
You can buy the set here:

http://estore.autodesk.com/dr/sat5/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=829502&PN=1&SP=10023&xid=19515&CID=248742&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=248742


BTW, someone pretty much copied my lesson and posted it here:

http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/maya/cloth/




I have Maya Complete, so, unfortunately, I don't have Maya Cloth. I was looking at Syflex academic, but I was curios if anyone knows a way of using soft bodies to act like cloth. I want to have my character pulling a "sheet" of a covered block of text, any clues, links, tuts?

[oneinfiniteloop]

Yeah, I went through the shower curtain tutorial and I didn't get the results I wanted for how I'm using it. I'm trying to create a cloth to cover a block of text and then have it ripped off by a character. Using that tut led to some serious tearing and it never looked quite right. I'll probably just have to scratch that idea until I find a way to pull it off.