Description
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS & FEATURES
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TOOL NAME: EtherPhysX V1.0
SUBTITLE: Physics & Dynamics Engine for Maya
AUTHOR: Animframe
SUPPORTED MAYA VERSIONS: Maya 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 (Python 3.x environments)
Hand-keying secondary animation in Maya is a nightmare. EtherPhysX is a highly optimized physics engine designed for professional and animators. It completely replaces rigid keyframing workflows with natural, complex secondary behaviors—perfect for muscles, organic mass, clothing accents, hair, tails, and foliage.
MODULE 1: JIGGLE PHYSICS (PROCEDURAL ENGINE): • Instant Procedural Offsets: Applies secondary inertia directly onto your animation controls. It analyzes the movement of a master control (Driver) and generates organic, cascading motion offsets on secondary controls (Drivens) in real-time. • Time Shift & Swirl Orbit: Dial in breathtakingly natural delays using ‘Time Shift’ and create beautiful rotational decays with ‘Swirl Orbit’. Perfect for soft tissues, muscles, bellies, and fleshy appendages.
MODULE 2: ETHERPHYSX CORE (ADVANCED DYNAMICS): • Modular Chain Generation: Harness the power of the Maya Nucleus solver to instantly create complex dynamic chains. Ideal for hair, tails, ropes, and clothing accents with fully automatic control hooking. • Real-Time Live Playback: Tweak Intensity, Damping, and Amplitude sliders while Maya plays the animation loop. Instantly preview your dynamic results in the viewport before baking anything. • Auto-Wrapping Collision Proxies: Generate highly optimized collision volumes that automatically attach to your rig. Use the built-in ‘Proxy Slide’ and ‘Offset’ sliders to perfectly wrap the collision around your character’s anatomy. • Active Mesh Collisions: Select any regular polygonal mesh (e.g., character body or armor) and click a single button to turn it into an active, impenetrable wall that your dynamic chains cannot cross. • Procedural Turbulence: Instantly generate wind ripples and erratic chaos to hair and clothing without hand-keying noise, using the built-in Wind Intensity, Frequency, and Speed sliders.
UTILITIES & PERFORMANCE: • Smart Baking Engine: Bakes the active physical simulation directly down into clean, standard keyframes on your rig’s controls. Features an adjustable ‘Interval’ setting to define the baking step resolution. • Safe Purge System: A one-click cleanup utility that safely destroys all background calculation nodes, dynamic joints, and proxy geometries, leaving your original rig completely clean and factory-fresh. • Zero-Click Installation: Features a highly robust Drag & Drop installer. Just drop the file into the Maya viewport, and the tool installs itself instantly, placing the UI icon directly on your current shelf. • Ultra-Fast & Secure: Powered by a compiled C-runtime engine, ensuring that background calculations run at maximum speed without bloating your Maya scene.
Video Demo / Tutorial : https://youtu.be/treMQC51FPI
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OS COMPATIBILITY: Developed and heavily tested on Windows. Due to the compiled high-speed runtime engine, EtherPhysX V1.0 is currently compatible with Windows (64-bit) operating systems only.
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This tool and its underlying code are protected by copyright. By purchasing EtherPhysX, you acquire a single-user license for personal or commercial projects. Unauthorized distribution, sharing, repackaging, or reselling of this script, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. Thank you for respecting the hard work that goes into indie tool development!
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