Ziva VFX Documentation

Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
  • Physics-Based Animation
  • Ziva Creatures
• Terminology
• Installation and License Management
  • Windows Installer
  • Linux Quick Installation
  • Custom Installation
  • License Management
• Tutorials
  • Bodies
  • Attachments
  • Fibers
  • Materials
  • Rest Shapes
  • Advanced Topics
• Built-in Demos
  • View Demo Assets and Scripts
• Simulation Topics
  • Physically Based Simulation
  • Simulation Objects
  • Attachments
  • Collisions
  • Integrators
  • Real World Units
  • Elastic Materials
  • Volume Preservation
  • Muscles
  • Tetrahedral Meshes
  • Embedding Meshes into Tissues
  • Physical Effects
  • Animatable Inertial Frame
  • Isosurface Triangle Mesh Creation
  • Thread Management
• Anatomy Transfer
  • Warping the geometry
  • Transferring Ziva rigs
  • Transferring Maya skin clusters
• Maya File Referencing
  • Limitations
• Cache Formats
  • Maya Cached Playback
  • Ziva Simulation Cache(zCache)
  • Alembic Cache
  • Comparison between Cache Formats
• Scene Panel
• Good Practice
• Performance Tuning
  • Simulation Mesh Resolution
  • Collision Detection
  • Solver Steps
  • Volume Preservation
  • Inertial Damping and Volume Conservation Together
  • Stiffness
• Limitations and Workarounds
• Menus
  • Ziva
  • Ziva Tools Menu
  • Ziva Transfer Menu
• Nodes
  • zAttachment
  • zBone
  • zBoneWarp
  • zCache
  • zCacheTransform
  • zCloth
  • zDelaunayTetMesh
  • zEmbedder
  • zFiber
  • zFieldAdaptor
  • zGeo
  • zHarmonicWarp
  • zIsoMesh
  • zLineOfAction
  • zMaterial
  • zPolyCombine
  • zRBFWarp
  • zRestShape
  • zRivetToBone
  • zSolver
  • zSolverTransform
  • zTet
  • zTissue
• Scripting
  • Commands in MEL
  • Commands in Python
• FAQ in daily usage
  • Solver Reports Error when Applying 1.0 Inertial Damping to a Standalone Tissue
  • Re-simulation May Explode after Switching Solvers
  • Ziva VFX version 2.2 plugin can’t load under Linux
  • Save Ziva VFX Setup at Non-start Frame
  • Loading the Wrong Ziva VFX Maya Version
  • Tissue object has no tet mesh
• Release Notes
  • Version 2.3
  • Version 2.2
  • Version 2.1
  • Version 2.0
  • Version 1.922
  • Version 1.9
  • Version 1.8
  • Version 1.7
  • Version 1.619
  • Version 1.6
  • Version 1.5
  • Version 1.4 hotfix 1
  • Version 1.4
  • Version 1.3
  • Version 1.2
  • Version 1.1
  • Version 1.0 hotfix 2
  • Version 1.0
• Third Party Licenses
  • Boost
  • Catch
  • Eigen
  • LibIGL
  • LosTopos
  • MKL
  • Spectra
  • TBB
  • Vega FEM