Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome! Seriously dude finish this whole tank building animation thing. Love the collapse dude it looks very natural.

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Thanks man, I think I'm definitely going to see this one through.

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yeah that looks really cool. love to see the end result. I've not used realflow before whats the procedure?

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Essentially you make all your stuff in max, along with any animated objects that are going to interact with things.

Export to real flows SD file, import into real flow.

Add a gravity daemon.

Set all your objects to Rigid Body and Dynamic Motion ON.

Turn Dynamic Motion OFF for any unyielding objects and also any objects that you have hand animated.

Start the simulation.

Import the animation.sd file from the real flow project into max, and click create keys.

It will generate all of the transform/rotation keys for all of the objects.

Render!

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Added a second more complex test. You can see the glass from the window dissapear in the first frame. It was meant to shatter, but something went wrong.

Also I think I didn't engineer this building as well as the last, it starts to collapse before it even gets hit haha.

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That's bloody gold. Seems realflow craps all over reactor. Might have to install again...

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My only concern with this is that it seems very small because everything is moving quite fast. I know its a test but perhaps if the gravity was lower it would seem like a larger structure. If anyones seen hellboy 2 theres a good example with a gigantic stone guy that comes out of the ground dripping with rocks and sand etc... a great sense of scale achieved in part by the speed of the animation.

incidently, if you havent seen hellboy 2 yet what are you frakkin doing reading this !!!!!

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Okay I'll try and mess with the gravity.

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nice work Otter...
erhm.. i don't know how you do it \

i don't understand the reactor what i mean how use it rather...

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Great job Matt! I would be curious to see the same type of animation with reactor. I think in reactor, there would be more of a problem of inter-population of each object. Experiment time. Awesome job.

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What do you mean by interpopulation?

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When the collision's don't quite work correctly and the object's combine together.

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Intersections maybe?

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Aah yeah I know what you mean now.

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erhm... show how you did this reactor...
so that I will discover slowly how to use the reactor
thx

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It isn't reactor. Its a separate program called RealFlow for fluid and physics simulation.

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I wouldnt even think about doing physics simulations before you have become comfortable with some of the basics of 3d. modelling, animation, materials etc...
Unless you understand the basic concepts something like reactor will just confuse the crap out of you.

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ahh okay thx the advice..

ill concentrate on 3DS max atm... reactor is the hardest part I can't discover by myself ='/

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i noticed something, if you watch it closer, you ll see the building parts starts falling off be for the impact of the object.. i am not sure if it's an illustion but chek it out closer!!!!!????

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Yes it does. Good eyes. I didn't weld anything together, it was all just sitting there. Thats the next step I have to work out.

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cool simulation. I've been wanting to do something like this in a video game level.

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Yeah I like doing physics sims, they just take ages to calculate. Longer than rendering almost haha.

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Which is kind of weird considering how fast other physics engines seem to render the same tasks in real time. I'm sure the quality is higher in the Havok engine in max than it is in halflife2.
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The objects don't move unless they're agitated.

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Yeah I don't use the havok engine, because of the realtime optimizations it seems a bit dodgy if you know what I mean. I use Realflow instead for physics.

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