BUILDING DEMOLITION tutorial ---TP---

[Tomaya]

hi
A little tuto around my test , thinking particles , veeery easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkTAEYTGFn0

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2927/tuto2dw.jpg (http://img180.imageshack.us/i/tuto2dw.jpg/)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY2crv4YQes

that's it !
Tom

[PascalR]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing your techniques Tomaya :dance:

[El Burritoh]

That's fantastic, Tomaya! Thank you! I've been learning Max particles and dynamics at work, in conjunction with Fume, but I have yet to work with Thinking Particles. Now I'm interested!

I'm curious about the fragmentation though. Is there any way to get something like a "voronoi" fragmentation or are you pretty much limited to the quads and tries that exist in the mesh?

[Tomaya]

Sorry tim , i forgot this point ...fragments shapes , you can design your own fragments by using the edges only option and shape merge :

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6307/visileedges.jpg (http://img20.imageshack.us/i/visileedges.jpg/)


test done with shape merge -edges only :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra5mKYrmxGI

[Richardr]

Thanks a lot for sharing Thomas!!! :dance:

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[Tomaya]

Thanks guys ! i hope it will help ...:)

[madmatt]

I thought that the first video was your reference, very realistic!!!

For the smoke on top of the building did you used FumeFx?

Bye

[Tomaya]

yep madmatt , FumeFX . The " group as object " option is very helpfull in TP , with this option active ,the building fragments become an object "unique"
then it's very easy with fume , the entire building is an object emitter and a colider too , just increase the voxels resolution to the limit of your Ram and that's it , 2 hours of dynamic calculation for this one . Render , 1mn30 by frame.

[El Burritoh]

[QUOTE=Tomaya;4917 just increase the voxels resolution to the limit of your Ram and that's it[/QUOTE]

Speaking of which, is there way to tell what this limit is without having to do a sim first?

[Tomaya]

You'll find the limits here :


http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8318/fumefxlimits.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/fumefxlimits.jpg/)

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[El Burritoh]

Aha! I never knew exactly what that meant. Thanks for that!

[peewe69]

Hello, nice work in here,

I have one question, I'm trying to make a mesh for fragment with your method of shape merge -edges only.

But the problem that I have is the next, when I make compound shape merge, this is make only in one face not in the other, how I can make the broke in two faces? thanks.

I attached the image .. the broken are only in one face ..

[Tomaya]

Because shape merge works only in 1D so do it on a plane first , you'll manage the thickness after ( shell , extrude , fragment with TP ....)

[peewe69]

Ok, thanks ..

I think about this, but how you manage the broke meshes? You did it these for your building?

Thaks in advance ...

[bubble]

Tom !!! thank you very so much
Bub

[Tomaya]

pas d' quoi bubble !! You're welcome

[nidhogge242]

Heya,

I've set a floor node for SC (I used a box), but the pieces keep falling through the floor. I can see that the pieces react to hitting the floor, but they end up falling straight through.

Any ideas?

[Tomaya]

hi

ok... ....try to increase the subdivisions of the box (tesselate) and the voxels grid of the floor : SC use voxels by face for the collisions , that's for the floor , but you can also increase the edges samples inside the "frag group " itself , on top of the TP tab . :thumbsup:

T