Maya: Dynamic Simulations with Bullet Physics

Learn how to set up and direct Bullet simulations for collisions, breakage, and simple cloth effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Loading the Bullet plugins

1. Bullet Rigid Body Dynamics

• Adopting a scale convention
• Setting the playback range
• Controlling playback speed
• Creating a static body
• Creating dynamic bodies
• Setting initial velocity
• Adjusting solver attributes

2. Integrating Keyframes with Dynamics

• Keyframing gravity
• Keyframing transforms with Bake Simulation
• Cleaning up keyframes
• Animating transforms with keyframes
• Keying the rigid body type
• Adjusting bounce and friction

3. Bullet Rigid Body Constraints

• Creating a rigid constraint
• Transforming the constraint
• Defining Friction, Restitution, and Mass
• Setting constraint limits
• Setting limit properties

4. Bullet Rigid Sets

• Using the shatter effect
• Creating a rigid set
• Holding set members together with glue
• Using collision filters
• Keyframing visibility
• Slowing motion with damping
• Caching with Alembic

5. Bullet Soft Body Dynamics

• Creating a soft body
• Constraining with soft body anchors
• Adjusting soft body properties
• Adding wind
• Caching soft body animation with Alembic
• Inflating a soft body with Pressure

Conclusion

• Goodbye