FAST SBD in LW8

[Samus]

Soft Bodie Dynamics (SBD) in LW 8.

TO get a rather proper SBD in Lightwave , you have to wake up
early,suffer all day to get frustrated at the end of the day.But
then came LW 8,Very Promising but then again...Not it yet.
However we are blessed with a great tool that is FX METALINK.
So until LW8 get's a SYFLEX plugin like most Highend package,
Here is a trick i found something like 48h ago. just a little contribution to the Lw Community. I hope it helps. Samus

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Zip file for further Observation.
Have fun,this work's for sleeves,shirt pants and More...
C&C welcomed.


Samus

[HowardM]

SWEET!

How did you figure that out?

[Samus]

i guess a lot of frustration...but never giving up is part of it.
Maybe also because Syflex is so fast and accurate that i wished
Lw had as good.I even posted a letter to syflex, they replied
there trying to touch as many software as they can.But promesses are not an answer... so this is( at least a break from
frustration.) LW 8 is great,will get better,in the mean time
it answers many problematics when you dig into it.

Samus

[Robi]

Hey, this is looking very cool, thanks a lot, I will try this tomorrow.

[ghopper]

Thanks for sharing this

[Samus]

you also could invert the constrain inward , but outward is best.
combinations of horizontal and vertical polychain is also possible for greater effects.

i'm sure the community will find derived version of this technic.
all you need now is to model your cloth with it's folds and take
every segment (paralel or vertical) and make them Polychains.
you'll get a nice secondary motion that SBD gives.

hmm ...how should i call it... Polychain SBD??
i like it ...C&C are welcomed.

Samus

[HowardM]

LSCRIPT!

[Samus]

i wish!! i do not script but i'm sure the community can give a hand,
or some guy at newtek.From what i've seen it's totaly doable.

wishlist woud be ...custom constrain size control interface for looser SBD.

polychain creation base on cloth object shape etc....

Any Lscript GURU ready to make this possibility a reality.
Ô great Proton do you not know someone at newtek???
like Daisuke INO( Motion designer Creator ) or anybody....

[hrgiger]

great work Samus.

[ncr100]

Apologies in advance for my naive question, but what is this technique good for?

Thanks in advance, Nick

[Samus]

1.speed up softbody dynamics.

2.stop trambling effects that MD does on cloth when collision
object is idle.

3.higher control over calculation hasard (when your SBD cloth
blows up because it did'nt correctly calculate folds.)

it's not perfect,but you will get SBD running fast,for shirts
pants , bellys, wiggling Cheeks etc...