Maya 2011 Basic nCloth Dynamic Constraint Tutorial by Stuart Christensen

[universetechnique]

You are the best.Straight forward time saver. Magi Thai 7:48PM 2/19/2012

[ChibiIbuki]

Do you think you could post a rendered version? Im curious as to what the cloth would look like in a simple still render. I'm new to maya and im just trying to create some simple bed sheets. :)

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@ChibiIbuki Give this a try for yourself and assign the nCloth with a shader. It's a basic excercise and doing final renders for stuff I'm working on or showing as an example just adds a whole lot more time and work for me. Keep at it and don't be afraid to experiment!

[nhaduongdx]

Can you let me know: have you smooth that monster model or not yet, coz I saw a great numbers of polygon. Please answer this because it important to me. Some friends (and teachers as well) told me that a lot of polygon just make it's more difficult (and sometimes impossible) to render. Otherwise, I think if I do so, I couldn't describe details as I want.

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@nhaduongdx Yes, this is a high resolution model with lot's of faces and you would want to reduce the number of faces to make a lower res copy and use that with displacement/normal maps. However, my system tolerates a fair load, and I go for high quality first and then adjust for low res. There's many different ways to do it but much to long for You-Tube style tutorials. Do some searches and you will find lot's of great info on the subject!

[MissJaneYi]

You always laugh in videos haha that's funny. Good tutorials.

[scarbadiente]

You're very cool man

[SweaterSwagg]

How advanced of a computer is recomended for this software?

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@SweaterSwagg I run Maya 2011 on a Mac Pro Tower with 10 gigs of RAM and it does a good job of keeping up with what I need it to do. I also have it on a PC with an i5 chip and a $200 nVidia Card and 4 gigs of RAM and it does well on that system. Maya will work on just about every off the shelf computer these days but as always the more extras in your system the better performance for particle sims and renders. Hope that helps.

[greendayforever789]

@SweaterSwagg my computer is bad and it works ok so u need just 152 mb ram and i think EVERYBODY has a computer with more than 152 mb ram

[ewigkase1]

awesome as usual :) thanks

[spontanp]

that was hilarious :D thank you for another awesome tutorial Stu

[IWTBFOY]

very great tutorial thank you very much

[SweaterSwagg]

Why is Maya so hard -.- I mean really.....

[mataziastika]

@SweaterSwagg because it does so many things!!

[SweaterSwagg]

@mataziastika Indeed.

[123456ebin]

great tutorial...i request you to upload tutoria about shatter effect in maya

[IWTBFOY]

@123456ebin I second this, Shatter effect would be very useful

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@IWTBFOY Unfortunately, Maya's native shatter (2011) is useless. The 2012 version which I do not have uses the DMM system for shattering stuff and it looks very promising but until I upgrade (soon) I won't be able to explore shatter effects. There's some plug-ins for shattering that may help - just do a google and you will find lot's of stuff. Sorry, hope that helps.

[IWTBFOY]

@deepfriedectoplasm Can you please explain why you think the Shatter effect is useless?

[sabotaz90]

@deepfriedectoplasm Do you know any good ones off the top of your head?

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@sabotaz90 Pulldownit and/or Ruins 4.0 are the ones that get the most attention, but for about $400 each I can't justify the expense as I don't shatter that much stuff. I would probably start with the free SOuP plug-ins for Maya, there is a good shatter effect in there, but be aware there is a learning curve for using them effectivley. Hope that helps.

[sabotaz90]

@deepfriedectoplasm k thanks

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@123456ebin Unfortunately, Maya's native shatter (2011) is useless. The 2012 version which I do not have uses the DMM system for shattering stuff and it looks very promising but until I upgrade (soon) I won't be able to explore shatter effects. There's some plug-ins for shattering that may help - just do a google and you will find lot's of stuff. Sorry, hope that helps.

[NorwayDouche]

@deepfriedectoplasm could you possibly make a tutorial on modeling a character or give a website on model downloads?

[skobot22]

@123456ebin use maya 2012 DMM simulation :-D

[voidreamer]

nice tutorial and laugh :D,  thanks

[innerobssession]

Hola! Siempre veo tus tutoriales para aprender 3D en Maya ya que estudio Animación Digital y me gustaría saber si no podrías subtitular tus videos si no es mucha la molestia para poder entender todo lo que dices, ya que escuchando solo alcanzo a entender bien la mitad de lo que explicas xD

Muchas gracias por darte el tiempo de enseñarnos a todos los que queremos aprender sobre el mundo del 3D.

Thanks! :D

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@innerobssession Usted es bienvenido! En el momento en que sería muy difícil para subtitular los tutoriales, sin embargo, podría tratar de usar el traductor de google para anotar los videos con los pasos específicos necesarios para crear los efectos en español. Les felicito por el aprendizaje por observación de tutoriales en Inglés. Voy a tener esto en cuenta para futuros proyectos!

[AdeptusSteve]

great Tut as always :D

I love how you talk and laugh.

Thats a nice Monster, did you model him yourself?

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@AdeptusSteve The monster model is a free download from a site called LUgher3D, there's lots of stuff there to play around with and he did a nice job on this model so check it out. The name of the model is moster_character_ieti.ma (monster is mispelled in the title) so check out that site for more good stuff.