- Page 1 of 1
Software Discussion
/
3D Studio Max
Just afew Questions :)
-
Blade 26 posts26 Apr 2006hey everyone just joined the forums and wondered if i could ask afew questions...Im currently doing my Final Major Project ( which ill post some things from
) and basically i was wondering if there was a way you could make it so you could start reactor without anything moving, becuase whenever you click Preview Animation everything falls with the gravity. The reason i ask is becuase i am looking to do a brick wall with a hover jet flying into them and the only way i can get around it atm is just layering the boxes which makes them "bounce" in the reactor. If someone could help i would greatly appreciate it.
Blade -
26 Apr 2006i believe theres a way to "set current state".
i think you set up the brick wall, not including your hover jet, then run reactor. the bricks will settle. when they stop moving, you stop the simulation and from the pulldown menus on the top of the real-time window there should be something like "use current state". click that and it'll update them in your viewports. next time you run reactor, then, they'll be right where they should be and won't have to settle again.
it's been a long while since i did this, so that could be totally wrong, but maybe check it out. if i've mistakenly said something was in the wrong place, please someone correct me. -
Blade 26 posts26 Apr 2006ok ive sort of got it, i just ran the reactor after times and updated it into max, seems to stop it jumping around so much, although there still is a slight wabble to it. Is there a way to make a rigid body collection move in the reactor? i.e if i had the bricks lined up with a rigid body collection on them and then made a ball crash into them is there a way i could make it react the way cloth and soft body does minus the wobblyness?
-
26 Apr 2006not sure i know what you mean... if you turn up the weight on the bricks, they may wobble less. but i don't know if i'm understanding you about getting them to move like cloth.
-
Blade 26 posts26 Apr 2006i mean so they react with the enviroment like cloth and softbody ie when a ball hits them they fly off in all directions but i dont want the way they all wobble and deform
-
26 Apr 2006if they're part of a rigid body collection, they shouldn't be deforming. rigid bodies don't need any special modifiers put on them, like a cloth or soft body does. you just pick the model and add it to a rigid body collection. they shouldn't deform unless they have a cloth or softbody modifier on them and are part of a cloth or softbody collection. and you have to make the ground plane a rigid body as well. anything you want them to recognize has to be a rigid body, softbody, or cloth (or any other reactor things).
- Page 1 of 1
Simply CG Contributors
