Thinkinetic has released, the latest version of its shatter and destruction plugin. New features include: • A new utility that spreads Maya nParticles over faces per material, enabling the user to emit extra debris, dust or smoke only from chosen faces. • Heavy animated meshes are now up to 3x times faster to update in dynamics. Animated or deforming meshes such as character`s skin are now updated quickly to provide a smoother experience when including them in destruction scenes. • A new “Increase Selection” option makes it easier to create clusters by selecting groups of small fragments.

Is the pre-cutting tool of Pulldownit, in this window users can define the. Cracker objects intended for creating long dynamics cracks over surfaces,. Esteban Cuesta has a look at using PullDownIt 3 in Autodesk Maya. Cracking ground and breaking.

The tool selects neighbouring fragments in the same area with one click. • A new “Only Breaks” fracture option captures larger cracks and detachments, this useful feature forces the model to stand while being impacted, its behaviour has been improved so now it can generate larger cracks and detachments when they don’t jeopardize the overall structure.

• Fracture Body Friction, Bounciness, Sec Cracks and Damping parameters can now be animated to give the user more control over a fracture simulation. In addition, these settings plus Mass parameters can also be animated for more control over rigid bodies simulations. • Users now have the ability to change a propagation scheme at a specific frame For example, a user can damage an object locally and then change to continuous propagation at a specified frame to break it completely.

• There is a new option to show/hide/select all the disabled rigid bodies in scene. • A new Aquire Shatter function can transfer animation from a single shape node to multi shape nodes. Pulldownit costs €395. Find out more on the and watch a tutorial featuring several of the new features by Esteban Cuesta on.

Pulldownit plugin is already available for Maya 2019, you can download it from the users area if you have licensed the plugin or download demo version from the web site in case not. You can review latest features and demos of Pulldownit 4.5 here: There was a great expectation about Maya 2019 because it was taken much longer than usual to be released, many users’ thoughts were about some big new feature was coming, but finally Autodesk has focused this release in usability of the tool and performance by presenting an impressive long list of bugs fixes and a few but important improvements when using the software in production. The major enhancement in Maya 2019 is the new cached playback feature, by using it you can speed up the playback of complex scenes or get a sustained frame rate directly in the viewport removing the need to playblast the scene to review issues, in addition you can modify keys freely and the cache auto updates quickly taking in account the changes so you get indeed a faster workflow specially for animation. Cached Playback is intended to be used with keyframed characters or some types of cached animations so all the dynamics solvers inside Maya: Nucleus, MASH, XGEN etc. Doesn’t support it. The same happens with Pulldownit, you cannot activate cached playback while computing dynamics however after baking keys and delete all PDI bodies you can enable it to speed up the playback in viewport, in our tests with scenes including around 1000 fragments this new Maya cache double the viewport FPS running at near 70 FPS, and if you export the destruction to Alembic the playback is even faster reaching a speed to around 90 FPS in average. Here a quick tutorial about using Maya 2019 cached playback with Pulldownit simulations.

There are other improvements regarding animation keys, two new filters has been added, Butterworth and Key Reducer, the first one is intended to clean noise in animation capture data and the second is useful to remove needless keys in the animation. Besides the integration of Arnold Render in Maya is becoming deeper with each update, in version 2019 you can use Arnold render inside one Maya viewport or render regions directly in the viewport 2.0 Autodesk also claims complex scenes now load faster and interactions with viewport 2.0 are quicker, in our experience that’s true so far, so even if some people is disappointed for the lack of brand new features in other fields we think Autodesk has done it right making Maya faster and more reliable in this release, users should notice it in his everyday work. This project was about destroying a brick wall with an animated robot, I had done similar things in the past using Pulldownit and not difficult but this time I needed to create a thin long crack in the stucco before making the wall to collapse and in addition this crack should follow the trajectory of an animated laser beam coming from the hand of the robot, that was the main challenge. Making the laser beam crack The laser is a simple thin cylinder in 3ds Max with the height value animated to make it grow towards the wall, besides the cylinder has a Octane material with emission per blue color, in this way it can illuminate the scene and finally to make it shine I added glare and bloom to the cylinder as a post process with Octane render itself. To fracture the wall in the shape of a circle I created a circle spline in 3ds Max and put it inside the stucco, then I used the path-based shatter feature of Pulldownit to create the fragments, with around 200 shards, but I wanted the center part of the wall to break later so I added a second local shatter pattern in the middle of about 70 shards.

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