Cloth Simulation
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布料物理模拟提供了一种在模型上模拟布料变形的方法。 起源2 的物理引擎 Rubikon 支持布料模拟。
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Contents
- 1 支持的引擎
- 2 Features
- 3 How it works
- 4 External tools
- 5 Ways of adding cloth
- 6 Using models with cloth
支持的引擎
起源
Dota 2 的原始
起源 版本包含一个传统的布料模拟系统。
起源2 中的布料系统似乎向后兼容该系统。
起源2
布料模拟在 Dota 2中主要用于角色服装。在 SteamVR Home (官方拳击场环境中被击败的拳击机器人模型)中也有使用。
当前SDK中的模型编辑器对制作布料的支持有限。尚未发布的 ModelDoc 引擎内工具似乎将取代它,但其功能尚不清楚。阀门工作流程似乎使用 Maya 或 Modo 为网格绘制每个顶点的属性。DMX 模型格式可用于将这些属性导入引擎工具。
待补充新内容。
The cloth system appears to have received significant upgrades after the initial Dota 2 implementation, including collision with world meshes. Old versions of the Source 2 tools include help files for the model editor that document many of the cloth features. These help files were removed with an update that changed the tool help file format. Converted versions of the help files can be obtained here.
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Features
Known features include:
- Can drive meshes either directly, through a proxy mesh or through manually set up nodes.
- Supports collision with other objects: Spheres and capsules, convex hulls, and even arbitrary meshes are supported.
- 待完善: Self collision within the cloth does not seem possible.
- Supports wind from env_wind
- Pressure forces
- Volumetric solver
- Cloth can be driven from animations
- Bend and stretch springs 待完善: Shear springs may exist.
How it works
A cloth piece consists of a set of cloth nodes connected together with quads and rods. Quads connect four nodes together and act as cloth surfaces, while rods connect two nodes and act as stiff rods or ropes.
The cloth nodes can drive bones in the model skeleton, which in turn drive the render mesh. Apart from manually setting up nodes and bones, the model compiler can generate cloth procedurally from attributes painted on the vertices of a mesh. The compiler will then generate a cloth node and a bone on each vertex with cloth enabled.
The attributes can be painted directly onto the render mesh, but also onto a separate cloth proxy mesh. The cloth will them be generated from the vertices of the proxy mesh instead. The proxy mesh can automatically skin and drive the render mesh, or both meshes can be skinned to the same skeleton and the joints back-driven from the cloth. This can be used if the render mesh doesn't have good topology to support cloth, or to make a simpler more performant cloth setup.
External tools
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Cloth attributes can be painted on with an external modeling tool. A plugin is required to export a mesh with the attributes.
Valves plugins have not been released, but an experimental fork of the Blender Source Tools addon capable of exporting DMX vertex attributes is available here.
Ways of adding cloth
To edit cloth properties, a collision file is needed in the model. In the model editor, right click Cloth (Compiled) or (NULL Collision if no cloth was generated) in the outliner, and choose New Collision. An item for cloth settings will now be available, as well as several more right-click options.
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Paint onto render mesh
Paint the cloth_enable
attribute onto vertices to be simulated.
The by default a hidden setting in the model forces back-solving to be used. To enable cloth processing on the render mesh, open the .vmdl file of the model in a text editor, navigate to the m_clothProxyMeshList
category and set m_bDriveMeshesWithBacksolvedJointsOnly = false
Pros
- Relatively simple
Cons
- Expensive on high poly meshes
- Requires planned mesh topology
Auto-match render mesh to proxy mesh
Author a proxy mesh and paint the cloth_enable
attribute onto it.
To show the cloth proxy mesh category in the model editor, edit the .vmdl file navigate to the m_clothProxyMeshList
category and add a set of curly brackets inside the square brackets of the m_clothProxyMeshList
key inside. It should look like: m_clothProxyMeshList = [ {} ]
To make the auto matching work, add the proxy mesh to the proxy list, and uncheck all the back-solve options. Note that both meshes need to be skinned to the same skeleton to be matched.
Pros
- Auto-matches render mesh to cloth
Cons
- May not match well in all cases
Back-solve mutual bones on proxy mesh to drive render mesh
Enable either of the back-solving options for the proxy mesh.
Pros
- Gives good control on how the render mesh deforms
Cons
- Only deforms mesh from existing bones
Add cloth piece on predefined bones
Create a grid of bones in an external modeling tool. It is recommended to keep a good naming conversion.
Right click the collision properties and choose 'Add Cloth Piece'. Use the UI to select bones set up the cloth.
Pros
- Might be a good way to add ropes
Cons
- Hard to use UI
- Many features missing or undocumented
- Bones have to be in a grid pattern and oriented right
- Tools will crash when misconfigured
Manually add nodes on predefined bones
Use the cloth properties to add nodes manually. It is recommended to turn off AutoComp while doing this.
Pros
- Exact control over topology
Cons
- Extremely hard to use UI
- Many features missing or undocumented
- Tools will crash when misconfigured
Author it in ModelDoc?
Wait for Valve to release the tool (this may take a long time).
Pros
- Added more recently than other methods
Cons
- May not be a complete way to author cloth
- Unavailable for mortals
Using models with cloth
SteamVR Home
Only the prop_dynamic entity class seems to work properly with cloth, although it can be parented to other entities.
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