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APEX Clothing Maya Tutorials

The tutorial files require Maya 2010 or higher. The latest APEX Clothing plug-in can be downloaded from the PhysX Developer Webpage. For additional information/questions check out APEX NVIDIA Developer Forums and for UE3 related info the EPIC Unreal Developer Networks.


 

APEX Clothing Tutorial: Setup and UI

This tutorial walks you through the various user interface components of the Apex plug in for Maya.

 

APEX Clothing Tutorial: Trench Coat

This tutorial explains how to simulate a trench coat that has thickness to it. Thick cloth is made up of two surfaces, and inner and an outer that together form thick cloth. This is referred to as the Latch to Nearest feature in Apex. You will learn about Latch to Nearest and more about the various clothing attributes on top of reviewing Max Distance and Ragdoll authoring.(Tutorial files)
Prerequisite: Waving Flag Tutorial, Knowledge of bone hierarchies, skinning envelopes, and basic timeline navigation.

This Maya APEX Clothing plug-in simulation video below provides an example of Trench Coat behavior when the character is running and jumping:

 

APEX Clothing Tutorial: Exporting to UE3

This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to export clothing to the Unreal 3 engine. (Tutorial files)
Prerequisite: Trench Coat Medium Tutorial, Knowledge of UE3. Maya 2.6 clothing plug-in and at least the 2011 October release of UE3 (APEX 1.0). Note: The 2.7 Maya clothing plug-in (APEX 1.1) won't work with the Unreal 3 (October release).

by ynschueller
postd on Oct 14 2011 at 12:08PM

Is there a tutorial file users can load into Maya to test functionality? The boards reference one but I am unable to locate it.

by Monier Maher
postd on Oct 14 2011 at 02:20PM

The tutorial files can be downloaded from parature (http://supportcenteronline.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=1949) in the download section (APEX DCC Clothing plug-ins).

by sandeep3250
postd on Jan 18 2012 at 06:43AM

How to bake apex cloth into keyframes? in maya.
Plz reply soon! thanx.

by Monier Maher
postd on Jan 27 2012 at 03:01PM

APEX Clothing currently does not support baking. We will be providing support for this in the next quarter.