WrinkleMatic - Procedural Wrinkle & Fold Deformer for Maya

Bring your surfaces to life with procedural wrinkles that respond to compression, stretch, and volume, all without simulations or corrective shapes.

WrinkleMatic is a lightweight procedural wrinkle and memory-fold deformer for Autodesk Maya. It enhances already animated or deformed meshes by adding believable compression folds, stretch wrinkles, and subtle volume reactions without corrective shapes or simulation passes.

It can be used anywhere from enhancing cloth deformations to adding fine, expressive details on character faces.

⚙️ Key Features

• Procedural and real-time: Evaluates each frame independently with no caching or simulation.
• Compression and Stretch detection: Generates folds in compressed areas and tension lines in stretched regions.
• UV-based control: Uses your chosen UV set to orient and blend wrinkle directions.
• Multi-layer behaviour with independent controls for
  • Compression folds
  • Stretch lines
  • Volume push and pull reactions
  • Tension sharpening and post-smoothing
• Paintable map workflow: Fully integrated with Maya’s native paintable deformer maps for localised control.
• Global Scale and intuitive parameters for quick tuning and scene-wide adjustments.
• Displacement support: Uses presculpted wrinkle geometry or displacement maps in combination with Wrinklematic’s procedural system for greater flexibility and realism.

🧩 Designed for Flexibility, Not for Automation

WrinkleMatic offers deep control and rewards understanding.
It is not a one-click solution, but a procedural system that reacts intelligently to how your mesh deforms.

• Results depend on your UV layout. Two similar meshes with different UVs will behave differently.
• It is designed for fine-scale surface detail, not large shape changes.
• Each surface may need tuning - amplitude, direction bias, or map painting - to achieve the desired result.

Once you get familiar with its controls, you can craft expressive, dynamic wrinkles that move naturally with your character or surface.

🧠 Why Artists Choose WrinkleMatic

• No simulation overhead or caching
• Highly tunable and stable across scenes
• Works seamlessly in standard Maya deformation stacks
• Ideal for rigging, facial systems, and cloth enhancement
• Produces natural, high-frequency surface details that scale beautifully

⚠️ Requirements and Notes

• Works on polygon meshes
• Requires an existing UV set with good, non-overlapping coverage
• Not a cloth, muscle, or soft-body simulation system

Compatibility

• Platforms: Windows and Linux*
• Maya: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Linux Compatibility Disclaimer

WrinkleMatic is compiled and tested on modern Linux distributions using GCC 13 and GLIBC 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and newer).
A legacy build compiled with GCC 9 is also provided for compatibility with older systems such as CentOS 7/8, RHEL 8, or Ubuntu 18.04.

Because Linux environments vary widely across distributions and render farms,
binary compatibility is not guaranteed on all systems.
If you encounter version mismatch errors (for example, missing GLIBCXX symbols),
please use the corresponding linux-gcc9 plugin folder as described in the installation guide.

WrinkleMatic - procedural wrinkles that respond to your artistry, not random automation.