nCloth workflow

The following procedure outlines a typical user workflow for creating an nCloth garment for a character. While performing these steps, you should play back your simulation so that you can see the results of your adjustments.

1. Make your character’s clothing nCloth.
   • Making a mesh nCloth
   • Create or remove nCloth
2. Make your character an nCloth or passive collision object.
   • nCloth collisions
   • Create and edit nCloth collisions
   • nRigidShape
3. Constrain the nCloth clothing to itself and its character.
   • Constraining nCloth
   • Create and edit nCloth constraints
   • dynamicConstraintShape
4. Adjust your nCloth clothing’s properties to achieve the appearance and behavior you desire. You can also edit your nCloth’s properties in a nonlinear manner by painting texture or vertex property maps.
   • nCloth properties
   • Maya Nucleus solver properties
   • nClothShape and nucleus
5. (Optional) Create external, non-nCloth dynamic forces to influence your nCloth’s behavior.
6. (Optional) Cache your nCloth.
   • nCaching Overview
   • Create or import nCaches
7. (Optional) Edit, merge, and blend your nCloth caches.
   • Work with nCache clips