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Duncan Brinsmead is a principal scientist with Autodesk. He is the creator of Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, Maya Toon, and also worked extensively on Maya Fluids and nCloth. Duncan holds an MA in Music Performance from Juilliard and enjoys playing piano as well as creating digital realizations of symphonic works in his spare time. The nuances and sensibilities from his musical background certainly find expression in all aspects of his work.

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Using nCloth as an influence object

NCloth is potentially very useful as an influence object applied to a skin. One could use this to affect actual cloth, or to provide secondary effects to a skinned mesh. There is currently a naming bug when one tries to…

Posted: Mar 16, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 3
Views: 3691
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Improved cloth water setup file

It occured to me that one could use the cloth selfCollideWidthScale with my water example so that one does not need to fatten the width of objects to compensate for the blobbyScale.

Posted: Mar 15, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 5
Views: 3481
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Water using nCloth (part 1 of 2)

It is possible to use nCloth for water, taking advantage of its ability to accurately self collide thick vertices (spheres), in addition with the ability to collide with geometry and other cloth objects( including rigid…

Posted: Mar 05, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 7
Views: 15449
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Falling leaves with nCloth and Paint Effects

With nCloth, Maya users finally have a simple method for handling falling leaves. One can also easily attach leaves to branches and have the attachments broken by windforces by using nCloth constraints with glue…

Posted: Feb 27, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 8
Views: 7674
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A ribbon with twist control

A Maya user was trying to create a curling ribbon with a paint effects brush. He wanted to know if it was possible to control the twist rate along the ribbon to make some areas flat while other parts were twisted.…

Posted: Feb 13, 2007
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 4
Views: 5733
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nCloth Zipper

Here is a tutorial to add a little zip-a-dee-doo-dah into your animations.

Posted: Feb 13, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 1
Views: 7579