Maya dynamic rockfall

Gmanx

I'm trying to get something similar to this (skip to 1:11):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzNfrHpOps"]SANDVIK - PF300 - YouTube[/ame]

I'm testing the free version of 'PullDownIt' from these guys:

http://www.pulldownit.com/

..but it's proving impossible to get it to solve into a digger bucket.

Regular Maya rigid body dynamics are a lot slower and crash my system every time.

Anyone have any alternatives?

Jedi

DMM

peanut™

The way they're showing this after 1:11 is that you dont really need an "actual" simulation. If i was to do this i would simply frame x and finish the whole thing at frame y with a play at the transparency settings.

and what's DMM ?

Gmanx

Thanks guys. I googled DMM (Digital Molecular Matter) which is a plug-in included with Maya since 2012. I didn't know anything about it (been out of the loop for a while) but I'll do some testing tonight.

peanut™

Great, nice plug, at least Jedi didn't hurt is fingers typing a well phrased answer.

:poly114b:

Vailias

Why simulate that?
Fake it.
You never see inside the bucket.

Have the rock wall deform based on the bucket position over x frames that its there.
Put particle emitters for rubble on the top edges of the scoop where the teeth are, then have some polygon rocks in the bucket that start their rigid body physics solve OUT of the bucket when the bottom of the bucket drops.

Gmanx

No DMM for Maya 2014 yet, so I'll fake it as suggested. Thanks again.