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I got sick of using the normal Expression Editor mainly because of the lack of real estate for expressions so I made part of the UI collapsable. All I did was copy and paste some of the existing code further down the mel script so no major rehaul. Copy the file into your default Maya Application > Scripts > Others and replace file. Make a copy of your original first. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T9V5GJRU

its easy i did kinda what john wrote. load the scene, and unhide the cloth object, which is simply a flat poly with 6 edges, for each link... duplicated and combined to make one object. same for the actual render links which are wrapped to the cloth. its pretty straightforward... just mess around and take a look at everything.

Quote: Originally Posted by ruchitinfushion Ok,i got good ramp ..thnx netsu But still problem in turbulence.I tried with turbulence field,but after this it start to sit down.... For turbulence I would use a volume axis field with away from center set to zero. Use the turbulence in the volume axis field to create the kinds of effect you are looking for. Very low values though like start at .1

I think your problem is that non-shading evaluation of textures does not support shading network and utility connections, like remap value and such. (outside of placement nodes) This includes mapping texture attributes with other textures. A workaround can be to convert to file textures, but it is a pain for animated effects. Duncan

I 'm trying to make the same thing with chains .. I now kinda made it with a hair curve and it looks nice. but i realy want to know how you do this? im not that in to Ncloth so could some one plz put down some steps how i can make the chain with N cloth? ( i tested the file and it looked realy nice but dont realy know how you did that.)

you guys crack me up. This thread still going? I'm sure it will keep going, Lets talk bottom line . Most companies use Linux to base their pipeline on. Max doesn't and won't have a lunix build. There for it will be extra hard to get it into a pipeline and building tools around windows OS. Sure it might be able to squeeze in there, but for the most part it's a no. Believe it or not Max is dieing as a Film/Game tool....

Continuing the discussion above. I'm still a student and after July I'll be thrown to the lions in a matter of speaking. Here in Portugal I've been told a lot that investing in the area of Fx is a waste of time. Unfortunately all the market here is dedicated to architectural visualization but I don't get it because this market is in a huge crises. During my studies I made two internships in two different companies and...

Surprisingly fluid collision with friction works fine in 2d fluid & also works well in spring mesh solver mode. I also tried here at work on linux vesrion Maya 2009 64 bit. It still crashes in same manner as in Windows 7/vista x64 bit machines. hope it gets fixed soon! Best Vik

Funny... just talkin' to myself here. But I keep myself up to date. Maybe there is someone else also interested in using goalPP - The first problem seams to be: If I only use one goal and use goalweightNPP I get the result from above. I added another goal and initialized it in the creation expression with an value greater than zero all seams to work! Also I think all Values play together: goalPP * Goal Weight[0] (Attribute) *...

In the hair follicle there is an attribute for Point Lock. You can set this to Both to lock both ends of the hair curve. You could also constraint the tip of the hair to a hair Transform constraint. The constraint is more flexible because you can key frame it into position.