The Modify Bindings operator allows you to modify the properties of existing particle bindings.
Only bindings attached to particles influenced by the operator will be affected.
Affect torn bindings: controls whether bindings that have already been torn will be affected.
Affect by ID: controls whether only bindings with a matching ID will be affected.
ID: the target binding ID to match.
Equal: bindings with an ID that is equal to the target ID will be considered matches.
Not Equal: bindings with an ID that is not equal to the target ID will be considered matches.
Per-particle limit: when enabled, controls the maximum number of bindings that will be affected, per-particle.
Scalar properties are binding properties defined by a single numerical value.
None: does not modify scalar properties of bindings.
Set: changes the scalar property to the specified value.
Set to current: changes the scalar property to the current value.
Multiply current: multiplies the scalar property by the specified value.
Multiply original by texmap: sets the scalar property to its original value, multiplied by the spinner value, interpolated with the texmap mono value.
Multiply original: sets the scalar property to its original value, multiplied by the spinner value.
Min: sets the scalar property to the specified value, if the scalar property is greater than the specified value.
Max: sets the scalar property to the specified value, if the scalar property is less than the specified value.
Reset to original: resets the scalar property to its original value at the time the binding was first created.
Set to current: changes the rest length value to whatever the current distance between the particles is.
While cloth bindings are split into different types (stretch/shear/bend/volume), particle bindings are all considered stretch bindings.
Stretch/Shear/Bend/Volume enable: enables modifications for each type of binding.
Stretch/Shear/Bend/Volume value: the specified scalar modifier for each type of binding.
Stretch/Shear/Bend/Volume texmap: the texmap used in “multiply by temxap” mode for each type of binding.
Interpolate: the amount to interpolate particle binding scalar modifications from their previous value to the new value.
In order to animate particle binding scalar values changing to a particular value over time, set the operator’s timing to “continuous” and set the interpolation value to something less than 1. Smaller interpolation values will result in slower interpolation speeds.
Tearing ability must have previously been enabled on bindings at the time of their creation for these settings to take effect.
Don’t change: binding tearing ability will not be changed.
Enable: bindings will be flagged as tearable.
Disable: bindings will be flagged as un-tearable.
These values allow you to directly adjust binding particle tear weakness values.
None: does not modify tear weakness properties of particles.
Set original: changes the tear weakness property to the specified value.
Multiply current: multiplies the tear weakness property by the specified value.
Min: sets the tear weakness property to the specified value, if the tear weakness property is greater than the specified value.
Max: sets the tear weakness property to the specified value, if the tear weakness property is less than the specified value.
Reset to original: resets the tear weakness property to its original value.
Weakness: The value to use in the tear weakness modification operation.
Interpolate: the amount to interpolate tear weakness modifications from their previous value to the new value.
In order to animate binding particle tear weakness values changing to a particular value over time, set the operator’s timing to “continuous” and set the interpolation value to something less than 1. Smaller interpolation values will result in slower interpolation speeds.
Inflation applies forces along cloth vertex normals during the simulation.
Inflation: the strength of the overall inflation force, per particle.
Inflation texmap: a texmap that acts as a multiplier on the inflation force value.
Float: an artificial force added to the inflation force, in the direction of the world up axis.
Float texmap: a texmap that acts as a multiplier on the float force value.
Event age ease-in: the strength of the inflation force will be interpolated from 0 to 1 over this many frames.
Increasing the value of “avent age ease-in” allows you to inflate cloth more gradually.
Inflate whole cloth: when enabled, all cloth particles will be inflated, even if not all cloth particles are in the event. When disabled, only cloth particles in the event will be inflated.
Inflate torn cloth: controls whether cloth with torn bindings will inflate.
Inflate torn verts: controls whether cloth particles that are directly connected to torn bindings will be inflated.
Normalize by surface area: adjusts inflation strength by local face areas. The larger the newly inflated area is compared to the original area, the less amount of inflation force will be applied. The result is a more equal amount of pressure applied to all parts of the cloth surface.
Normalize by crease angle: adjusts inflation strength by local face angles. The more creased an area of a mesh is, the less inflation force will be applied. This has the effect of causing fully inflated areas to push away faster from crumpled/creased areas, resulting in faster mesh untangling/popping.
Relative float: adjusts float strength relative to cloth face stretch.
By default, the float force is applied at equal strength to all affected cloth vertices. However, floating behavior in real-life softbodies (ex: balloons) is caused by the displacement of gas inside the body relative to gas outside the body. Since the Modify Bindings operator does not employ a physically-accurate gas model in its inflation/float algorithm, this behavior does not naturally occur in cloth simulations. That said, by enabling the “relative float” option, the amount of float force applied to cloth vertices will be relative to the ratio of their current face area compared to their original face area. In simple terms this means that the more a cloth face is stretched (presumably by inflation forces), the more it will float, and vice versa (thereby loosely estimating the real-life displacement behavior). Increasing the float threshold will increase the amount a face must be stretched before it can begin to float.
To simulate air escaping from a torn cloth mesh (which would prevent inflation), adjust the “max tear thresh” to whatever value gives the best result.
The greater the number of overall tears in a cloth mesh, and the greater the “tear force adjust” value, the less of an effect the inflation force will have on vertices. This is an additional way to help simulate air escaping from a torn cloth mesh.
Float threshold: controls how large the ratio between a cloth face’s resting area and its stretched area must be before relative float forces are allowed to affect it (see above for further explanation). Values greater than 1 mean that cloth faces must stretch past their resting area before being able to float.
Display inflation forces: draws inflation force vectors in the viewport.
Aerodynamic forces are calculated using a thin-foil model of cloth faces. Relative cloth vertex velocities are calculated based on per-step force deltas, and then used to compute lift and drag forces for each cloth vertex.
Lift and drag force multipliers should generally be kept very small.
Enable aerodynamic forces: controls whether lift/drag forces will be calculated.
Lift: the lift force multiplier.
Drag: the drag force multiplier.