Ziva VFX Documentation

Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
  • Why Use Physics-Based Animation?
  • Why Use the Finite Element Method?
• Terminology
• Installation
  • Semi-automatic Windows Install
  • Manual Install
  • License Management
• Tutorial
  • Bodies
  • Attachments
  • Advanced Tissue Topics
  • Working with Multiple Solvers
• Built-in Demos
• Simulation Topics
  • Physically Based Simulation
  • Simulation Objects
  • Attachments
  • Collisions
  • Real World Units
  • Elastic Materials
  • Volume Preservation
  • Muscles
  • Tetrahedal Meshes
  • Embedding Meshes into Tissues
  • Physical Effects
  • Animatable Inertial Frame
  • Isosurface Triangle Mesh Creation
  • Thread Management
• Good Practice
• Limitations and Workarounds
• Menus
  • Ziva
  • Ziva Tools Menu
• Nodes
  • zAttachment
  • zBone
  • zCache
  • zCacheTransform
  • zCloth
  • zDelaunayTetMesh
  • zEmbedder
  • zFiber
  • zFieldAdaptor
  • zGeo
  • zIsoMesh
  • zLineOfAction
  • zMaterial
  • zPolyCombine
  • zSolver
  • zSolverTransform
  • zTet
  • zTissue
• Scripting
  • Commands in MEL
  • Commands in Python
• Release Notes
  • Version 1.4
  • Version 1.3
  • Version 1.2
  • Version 1.1
  • Version 1.0 hotfix 2
  • Version 1.0
• Open Source Licenses
  • Boost
  • Catch
  • Eigen
  • LibIGL
  • LosTopos
  • Spectra
  • Vega FEM