AETHER
Cloth. Contact.
Soft bodies.
The Core Engine of Cloth neXt. Build layered garments, simulate cloth against animated characters and work with soft bodies, directly from Blender.
Available on Windows x64 and Linux x64, with NVIDIA CUDA or CPU.
The core of your cloth workflow.
AETHER is the established simulation core in Cloth neXt. Set up your scene, choose the material behaviour and bake from Blender's Physics properties.
- Cloth and layered garments
- Simulate fabric and layered clothing as part of the character scene.
- Contact with animated characters
- Work with animated colliders so cloth can respond to the character's movement.
- Soft bodies
- Use the same engine for soft body work in the Cloth neXt workflow.
From Blender.
Through the native engine.
Back to your scene.
Install from the add-on
Open the Cloth neXt add-on preferences and install AETHER from the official upstream release. The add-on checks engine compatibility before each bake.
Set up and bake
Prepare cloth, contacts and material settings in Blender's Physics properties, then start the bake from Cloth neXt.
Choose your compute backend.
AETHER supports NVIDIA CUDA and CPU execution on Windows x64 and Linux x64.
| Platform | NVIDIA CUDA | CPU |
|---|---|---|
| Windows x64 | Supported | Supported |
| Linux x64 | Supported | Supported |
AMD GPU support is in development. See the system requirements for Blender and hardware details.
Start with AETHER.
Install the Core Engine from your Cloth neXt preferences and keep your simulation setup in Blender.
Official upstream distribution
AETHER uses the unmodified upstream solver under Apache License 2.0. PolyWorks does not host or repackage AETHER builds.
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