Popular highlights include: Clothing Techniques for Animated Characters; SyCloth, SyHair, SySkin, SyFlesh; Forces: Gravity, Damp, Air, Wind, Turbulence, Volume, Magnet, Sew; Constraints: Nail, Pin, Mimic ; Wrinkle Maps; Hair Maps; Attenuation Maps; Rigging SyFlex for Secondary Animation; Initial States and Caching; Collisions; Live Mode; Visualization Attributes; Maya Artisan; Troubleshooting Simulations; Efficient Workflow Using EZFlex.

SyFlex is an amazing clothing simulation tool that has been used in many feature films. This lesson is a great primer for using the powerful SyFlex simulation engine! Topics covered in this video: Creating a Cloth object; Attaching Gravity nodes; Attaching Damp nodes; Using the simulated polygon object to drive the converted sub-d surface; Using Nail Constraints. For a comprehensive overview of SyFlex, view our Using SyFlex in Maya training.

We will also explore using SyFlex as a dynamic simulator that can drive higher resolution objects very quickly. Try using the various techniques from this lesson in your own SyFlex projects for better simulations! Topics covered in this lesson: Creating cloth objects; Attaching cloth objects to surfaces; Adding Gravity; Adding Dampening; Creating Pin Constraints; Adjusting properties to simulate cloth at the cm level instead of meters; Adjusting the enveloping of the simulation; Setting collision faces of the polygon object. For a wide-ranging overview of SyFlex, watch our Using SyFlex in Maya training.