Maya Dynamics

[sherwin23]

Hi guys

Im trying to create a scene of mnms or like smarties taking a shape of a object and filling the volume of that object with it, and then making them animate with dynamics to like fall over.....i did the simulaion with nparticels and instanced the mnms, but came across a problem when they collide with eachother....because they are instanced objects they arent colliding like they should with eachother and looks stiff......is there away for me to achieve this like i could in a programe like cinema 4D in maya?

Thanks in advance for your help:)

[agraham]

Depending on how many M&Ms you want to sim, I'd use Bullet Rigid Sets to achieve this.

And because the M&Ms are all the same shape, you could use rigidSets with a collision shape like 'capsule' or a flattened sphere.

Check out this docs page for help:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-0D730732-72AB-4427-8B6D-0DC270307943

[sherwin23]

Hi agraham

Thanks so much for the reply, i came to the same comclusion, and for the collision i just used the hull and works perfectly!!!:D thanks again