Maya to UDK - Physics/Dynamics Simulations - Need Help

Kuki

Hi guys, I already started a similar discussion but never received feedbacks.

I am starting to work on a project in which I will have to bake maya physics simulation (a building that crash into pieces etc...) and import these animations to Udk.

I'd like to know every useful information/tutorial about the workflow behind this kind of task. The Udk documentation doesn't cover the topic at all. Every advice is appreciated.


Thanks

Lamont

If it's already busted into bits and it's just hard-body, then go ahead and turn that whole thing into a series of morphs. It would be a giant character pretty much.

Kuki

Thanks for the advice but I am really still "newbie" so I'd like to approach the task little by little, could someone suggest some good tutorial to start workin with physics from maya to Udk?

Lamont

Kuki wrote: »

Could someone suggest some good tutorial to start workin with physics from maya to Udk?

There are none as far as I know.

I figured something out. It's a bit of a process and I got it to work, but I don't know how hard you can push it, and the max bone count per skeletal mesh will be reached if it's a huge number of bits for the simulation. What I did was create the meshes, put a joint in the center of each bit, then did the parent constrain on the bones to each bit it was attached to. From there I ran the simulation, then I baked the keys down on the joints. Removed the simulation from the geometry and removed the parent constraint on the bones. Then I exported the data and brought it into UDK, it automatically linked the animations and it played just fine.

If this is still a bit of a foggy mess, I can make a video and upload source data and files.

I take that back about the max bones per skeletal mesh, each bit will be it's own character. So I'd make a folder per building and import into there.

Kuki

Thanks Lamont. Your workflow description is really helpful. Don't wanna ask you to make a video, it's really too much . I'll make some tests and report any problems. Thanks