Wind blowing?

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

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# 1 09-01-2013 , 01:34 PM

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Hi, i am confused to how to create a wind like effects on the character clothing and hair. The clothing is smooth-skin while for the hair, i am planning to use ncloth.

Any techniques/ tricks to faking the wind blowing into the clothes and hair?

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# 2 09-01-2013 , 03:29 PM

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why not use nCloth for the cloth and nHair for the hair, then just use the nuculas wind? or drop in a air field

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# 3 10-01-2013 , 12:22 AM

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thanks, It's a big project, i am looking for ways to cut down production time and rendering time. So i am wondering if anyone here has any suggestions for faking wind? Any external plugins for maya that can do that perhaps?

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# 4 10-01-2013 , 05:13 AM

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Maybe you can use a method like they use in Maya paint by adding a twist attribute to the mesh some how to make it bend and move.

nhair dose have a natural look though maybe you can limit the number of hairs you have to get the rough look, then for your final render up the hair count . That should speed up the test renders a bit .

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