i have the complete version of maya so i have no cloth. I was thinking of getting the student version of the syflex cloth program…can someone give me some pros and cons of this program also how does it stack up to mayas cloth.
does anyone here have the student version…what can you and cant you do
no comparison. syfex is stable and faster. you can model the clothes around the person and everything works great rather than having to make some obscure flat pattern and hope it works. I’m not a tailor so this really helps.
you work in 4-sided polys so you have to keep the geometry clean but that’s easy with common sense and Polygon>Clean up to detect anything not 4-sided.
And who wants to pay $5000 dollar if all you need is the cloth?
The student version. Well, it’s for learning and learning is only good if you have all the functionality. You don’t get the right to use it to make money but it’s only good on the PLE anyway. Talk to Syflex for more details
Anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong
thanks for replying…i bought maya complete from journey ed so i dont have the cloth functionality, but when i saw the syflex site i thought wow, thats pretty nice.
on the syflex site they talk about a 400 dollar version which is syflex le…here is what it states…
Syflex LE (Learning Edition)
SyflexLE is a simplified version of Syflex for learning and teatching purposes (non commercial only).
More affordable, it allows artists to learn cloth simulation.
SyflexLE is as fast as the commercial version. It has less parameters, and some non-essential features has been removed (SDK, self-collisions, cache, force planes, sew and magnet forces, optimizations options).
the features that are removed is what worries me, i did email someone from syflex and he says that those missing features dont stop you from making clothes for characters, but i was hoping someone on the site had the LE version and would be able to tell me what you cant really do…
for someone who dosen’t know the program this without much eplanation dosen’t help me much.(SDK, self-collisions, cache, force planes, sew and magnet forces, optimizations)
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i was hoping i could find a pdf that would give a more indepth look at what i wouldnt be getting.
i would really like to get this instead because i would be able to afford it at 400 bucks where i could learn how to use the program thoroughly and then when i have more money i would be able to upgrade to the commerical version.
just wanted feedback from someone who might have the LE version thats all, however i will see if i can get more info from the contact section of the site.
SDK is simply Software Developing Kit for the cloth simulator, so that you can have scripts do the work for you. Self-collisions basically prevents your cloth from colliding with itself, i.e. intersecting and clipping within itself. I am not sure what force planes are. Sew and Magnet forces create some effects that are otherwise very hard to produce. Sew, obviously, creates the effect of two cloths sewn together while magnet attracts vertices of a cloth to it. Cache bakes the animation so that it doesn’t need simulation anymore (when you are happy with your simulation u can bake it so that it no longer has to compute the physics of the cloth). I am not sure about the optimization options either, because I don’t know which ones are not included in the student version…
hope this helps
thanks for the info. i did email syflex support and Gerard which is the name of the guy that replied said that he will get back to me in a few days because they are working on a commercial version which is only going to be for educational purposes. so with that said the student version would have all options available…
wooohooo
they finally have the academic version of syflex and this unlike the le version gives you everything for 550 dollars
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