Kelseus's engine and plug-in for cloth. (product spotlight).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

Kelseus's Cloth plug-in for Discreet's 3ds max, introduced about a year ago, produces animated clothes for 3D figures and objects. The product is designed to provide inexpensive, simple-to-use dynamic cloth simulation for film, television, and other products.

A newer item from Kelseus, based on the same core technology as the plug-in, is the Cloth Engine, an SDK now available for licensing to developers. The engine includes collision detection/ rectification, which recognizes all cloth geometry that collides with an object, detecting and rectifying vertex, edge, and face collisions to increase the ...