Hey All,
I am a student about to purchase Syflex for Maya7, but was wondering if it is possible to run Syflex animations on my Mac at home, bake the simulation and render on the PC’s at my course studio (non of which have Syflex)?
Is this possible through Syflex alone or will I need a MEL Script or plugin?
Many Thanks for any help!
Short answer is yes.
I’m goona be lazy and just paste out of the syflex docs…
When the bottleneck is in the rendering, you can render on as many machines as possible, without being limited by the number of Syflex licenses. This can be achieved easily by using the cache.
When the Syflex plugin doesn’t find any valid license, it automatically enters in cache mode (a warning message is displayed). In this mode you cannot compute any simulation, but you can visualize a simulation that was previously saved in cache files. This can be used to render on as many machines as you want, or to let other members of the team work on a scene that was “cached”.
For more details on how to setup the cache in a cloth see the [cache attribute](file:///rel/third_party/syflex/3.5/doc/syflex_cloth.html#cache) in the cloth.
In cache mode, you cannot modify any parameters of the simulation, except the cache file name in the cloth attributes.
Yes the cache is the identified method, but is there no othere solution as the vertices of the sycloth object cannot be baked out? Why not?
if you really want to bake the geo rather than using the cache… (you should make sure this is what you want because its a pain, slow and resource heavy to bake)
either, use maya’s geo bake… edit->keys->bake simulation[]
or one of the blendshape bake scripts on highend3d.com
.j
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