Syflex quezzie 2005-04-06 - By Steve
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Should have been tapping the space bar, not holding it down. That did it
.... man, told you I'd feel stupid..
Cheers Brad.
S
Brad Friedman wrote:
> I'm assuming syflex 2.x. if you've got 3.0 I can't help unfortunately.
>
> with extended component selection off:
>
> select the cloth object. hit 't'.
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> select your verts to pin.
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> hold down shift.
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> tap space.
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> while shift is held down, select the object to pin to.
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> release shift.
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> Syflex -->Constr-->Create Pin
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> thats it. no message.
>
> if that doesn't work, then something weird is going on.
>
> Steve wrote:
>
>>
>> Sorry Brad - one more thing. Pinning - I'm doing what it's asking but
>> must be missing something. I pick my ribbon, select the points I want
>> to use to pin, then add the hat to the selection, then Const>Create
>> Pin. Nothing but a reminder pops up telling me to select the point
>> clstr or vertices of the cloth, and a polymesh, which I figure is
>> what I'm doing already isn't it? I know this is one of those things
>> I'm going to feel very stupid about in a few minutes ....
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Brad Friedman wrote:
>>
>>> when I do ponytails I just syflex a ribbon.
>>>
>>> then I break up the high res hair geometry into clusters.
>>>
>>> The part that stays with the head gets enveloped to the head control.
>>>
>>> The part that is the ponytail gets cage deformed to the syflex
>>> ribbon. Make sure the syflex node is in the animation part of the
>>> stack and not in the modeling part of the stack or this wont work
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> this is very similar to your situation I think and the same
>>> technique should work.
>>>
>>> the pin and the nail should work as well however... unless your head
>>> is not 100% weighted to the same controller you are nailing to.
>>>
>>> -brad
>>>
>>> Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi knowledgable ones,
>>>>
>>>> A quick syflex question. I have a character with an old flight hat
>>>> on -the ones with the flaps hanging down at the sides, which I need
>>>> to sim. The easiest way to go about this was to use Syflex.
>>>>
>>>> I have made the hat a cloth body, tagged the points other than the
>>>> flaps and created a nail. The syNailPos null which is created I
>>>> have parented under the head jnt of my character to inherit it's
>>>> local transforms. I add gravity, run the sim and the flaps sim
>>>> great, but the nailed area pushes through my poor fella's head.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? I also tried to pin the same points, but couldn't get
>>>> it to work ( I picked the points, then the head itself, hit
>>>> Constrain>create Pin, but no joy). I've been able to find very
>>>> little documentaion on this stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Also, would people think this is the way to go, or is there an
>>>> alternative (I messed about with XSI's cloth, but didn't have much
>>>> luck there either).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers for any help,
>>>> Steve
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