drawbridgep opened this issue on Nov 15, 2010 · 9 posts
drawbridgep posted Mon, 15 November 2010 at 6:35 PM
Attached Link: Tower Test
Here's a tower I was working on as a test. I was going to have a ball smashing through it or an expanding gas cloud/explosion, but it fell on it's own. Probably bad construction.
Kixum posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 6:53 AM
Way cool!
-Kix
benney posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 7:49 AM
Brilliant Phillip. I use carrara 7 po and I am just hoping that santa brings me pro 8. Fingers crossed.
Sueposer posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 9:22 AM
Nice smooth animation. Hope no characters were injured in the crash :)
Analog-X64 posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 8:29 PM
Thats awesome. Would you mind writing a quick tutorial on how thats done?
drawbridgep posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 8:46 PM
Actually I'm not quite sure why it does it. But here you go....
Add a normal cube and stretch it to be a brick shape
In the motion tab under motion select physics
Duplicate the brick and move it to the opposite end of the tower
Group those two bricks and then duplicate the group and rotate it around the vertical to form the next brick
Ctrl-D a few times to duplicate and rotate the bricks to form the bottom layer of the tower.
Group the layer and then duplicate it
Move the layer up to become the second row of bricks and rotate around the vertical axis to form a brick pattern.
Ctrl-D for however many layers you want. I think I did around 40.
And that's your tower.
Click on the simulate physics button and it will then churn away at the calculations and for some reason which I haven't worked out, the tower, rather than staying tower shape, falls down.
tada!
Analog-X64 posted Tue, 16 November 2010 at 8:56 PM
Awesome, I'm going to give this a shot.
I tried to do this before, and all I endedup doing was having a bunch of cubes just standing there doing nothing.
What I have in mind is building something into a known shape and have that shape fall apart.
I've been working on and off on this video project Idea that I have, and you'll get the idea. I just posted a link to a youtube video in another thread here check it out.
drawbridgep posted Wed, 17 November 2010 at 2:18 PM
Attached Link: Chess Set Animation
Here's a new animation.
UVDan posted Fri, 31 December 2010 at 1:55 AM Forum Moderator
Awesome stuff!
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