Bonus Tools is a free collection of useful Maya scripts and plug-ins. After installing Bonus Tools, users will have a pull-down menu for easy access to the tools that cover all aspects of everyday use: general UI, modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and cloth.
Bonus Tools are provided to you on an "AS-IS" basis; Autodesk® does not provide any support in connection with this collection.
Download and execute the installer.
To take advantage of the python scripts, you Ôll need to edit your Maya.env file. Here's a sample path for windows:
PYTHONPATH = C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MayaBonusTools2008\python
Unzip the nCloth folder and place it inside the folder "presets" in your maya install location.
Usage:Select a mesh and do "nCloth: Create nCloth". In attribute editor for the nClothShape when you click on the button "Presets" the new presets should appear. Simply select a preset to apply it to that cloth. Note that these preset files do not set all attributes on the cloth node, but just a relevant subset. Thickness and self collide settings are generally not affected, for example. Also all these presets set the scalingRelation attribute to "object space". This allows the stretch to be more or less constant when applied to meshes of different resolutions.
