Tools for pre-baked destruction

Kevin Albers

Does anyone have any recommendations for tools to aid in the creation of 'destroyed' versions of assets...mainly environment stuff? I'm mainly interested in pre-baked destruction, although something that does real-time destruction (i.e. Havok) and can also pre-bake the destruction would also be ok.

I'm interested in middleware/plugins etc that create a variety of realistic fractures based on material types, along with pre-baked physics simulation to create destroyed arrangements of pieces. Generating nice animations is not required...just the final 'broken' version of stuff.

Engine-agnostic software would be fine, or something for UE4 if it's tied to a specific engine.

Obscura

Nvidia MeshLab - It spits out apex files, and they worked with UDK so I assume they work with UE4 too. Probably there is a tool for making fractured meshes inside UE too.

marks

Rayfire

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_2qKQpxCRw[/ame]

Generally if you look into any physics simulation stuff used in the movie VFX industry, that stuff tends to be pretty good (and sounds exactly like what you're after).

tharle

Ninja Fracture, Houdini, Vorofrag, DMM, PullDownIt.

There's a few more options depending on your needs and budget.

tynew

Rayfire seems good. One thing though with any kind of destruction, for eg. rayfire it creates normal errors on curved geo! Even using a vertex normal stitcher script doesn't seem to help.

monster

ScriptSpot is down right now, but when it's back up there's a 3ds Max script called Fracture that I use all the time.

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/fracture-voronoi

[Deleted User]

Houdini Engine. There is a upcoming version for UE4. You could use the same tool in Maya/Unity/UE4 to fracture your stuff.
Just create tool in Houdini, package it as a Houdini Digital Asset and reuse/tweak in any of those programs without going back to Houdini.

Kevin Albers

Thanks a bunch for all of the replies. I really appreciate it!

Some very good options here, covering a variety of price points and needs.

[Deleted User]

Speaking of the devil

UE4 Houdini Engine Beta just anounced => https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3067&Itemid=66

mantragora wrote: »

Houdini Engine. There is a upcoming version for UE4. You could use the same tool in Maya/Unity/UE4 to fracture your stuff.
Just create tool in Houdini, package it as a Houdini Digital Asset and reuse/tweak in any of those programs without going back to Houdini.