Monday, December 29, 2008

T0232 - Digital Tutors - Soft and Rigid Bodies in Maya

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Learn the fundamentals of Soft & Rigid Body Dynamics with 3 hours of interactive training. Perfect for intermediate and advanced users.

Popular highlights include:

* Rigid-body Dynamics
* Constraints
* Shatter
* Lattices
* Goals
* Adding Springs
* Soft-body Dynamics
* Active and Passive Rigid Bodies
* Active and Passive Keys
* Determining Initial States
* Setting Static and Dynamic Friction
* Damping
* Mass
* Bounciness

Lesson Outline:

1. Introduction to Rigid Bodies 6:36
2. Initial Velocity and Impulse Attributes 6:40
3. Mass, Friction, Damping and Collision Layers 10:14
4. Integrating Particles with Rigid Body Simulations 7:03
5. Using the Nail constraint 7:23
6. Using the Pin constraint to create an object hanging from a character's necklace 7:38
7. Using the Hinge constraint 4:20
8. Spring constraint (part 1): creating a launch pad that sends a rigid body up in to the air 10:13
9. Spring constraint (part 1): building guides (rails) for the launch pad to move against 5:48
10. Barrier Constraints 5:11
11. Keying Active / Passive Attributes 1:49
12. Rigid Body Solvers (part 1): setting initial states, step sizes, collision tolerance and start times 3:45
13. Rigid Body Solvers (part 2): using the attributes in the solver node 3:07
14. Creating new rigid body solvers 6:37
15. Baking simulations 6:03
16. Introduction to Soft Bodies 9:56
17. Using Goals and Soft Bodies 8:24
18. Using the Paint Weight tools 4:39
19. Using Springs and over-sampling 6:20
20. Using lattices in soft body simulations 7:38
21. Adding soft bodies to rigid characters 9:54
22. Caching the soft body particles 1:54
23. Using fluids to move rigid bodies 1:54
24. Using a 3D container to move soft bodies 2:31
25. Snow (part 1): working with soft surfaces like snow 7:27
26. Snow (part 2): making the snow roof soft 2:32
27. Snow (part 3): adding tire tracks 2:16
28. Shatter effect overview 5:00
29. Using dynamics to shatter glass 9:42
30. Creating a domino simulation 5:58

Total Run Time:
2:21:00

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