Make mesh from nCloth / physics simulation?

[Anonymous]

I want to run a simluation on a piece of rope (a helix) and let it fall to the ground, creating a nice rope-on-ground mesh. I stop the simulation at the point at which I would like to make a mesh, but I cannot figure out how to create a mesh at this point. I want to export it to fbx for use in Unity. Please help me! 

[damaggio]

Just make a copy..shift "D"...and drag it out of the ncloth simulation.

[Anonymous]

I was able to figure it out. First I had to stop the simulation. Delete history, freeze the transform, then delete the rigid bodies and such and then export as fbx. Right now I'm trying to make a nParticle simulation, and save it as an animation for use in video games. Do you know how to do that? 

[damaggio]

The way I told you is better because you can still save your simulation file and extract new meshes from various stages of the simulation.....about the particles I don't Ben, have you looked in the game engine, most have their own set of effects you can use.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure Unity game engine would have some sort of physics simulation of water. I just wanted to try to simulate it in maya and give it to them as an animation. 

[damaggio]

Just look under the Unity docs.