Creating a Wind Blown Leaves Simulation Using nCloth in Maya
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Throughout these lessons, we will learn a non-traditional workflow using nCloth in Maya to simulate wind blown leaves in an alley. The methods using nCloth will help to keep your simulations close to real-time. Software required Maya 2013.
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Course Description
Throughout these lessons, we will learn a non-traditional workflow using nCloth in Maya to simulate wind blown leaves in an alley. The methods using nCloth will help to keep your simulations close to real-time. We will use low resolution geometry to drive high resolution geometry to create the desired effect. We will also use fields to effect movement as well as export cache and learn how to re-purpose that cache to quickly get the result we are looking for. Software required Maya 2013.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 4s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 4sCreating a Wind Blown Leaves Simulation Using Ncloth in Maya- 1h 21m
—Outlining Scene Optimizations 2m 12s
—Creating the Low Polygon Environment 8m 22s
—Completing the Low Polygon Environment 9m 34s
—Setting up the Low Polygon Leaves 9m 9s
—Setting up the Collision Objects And basic Ncloth 8m 52s
—Adding Fields and Tweaking the Movement of the Leaves 8m 51s
—Introducing the Curve Volume Fields to Refine the Leaf Movement 10m 4s
—Reorganizing Collision Geometry 9m 44s
—Caching out the Simulation and Multiplying It 10m 13s
—Refining the Look Post-simulation 4m 52s
