approach to dangling rotten flesh sim?

[poppy]

Hi!

I has this quest of making som kind of dynamic on a character. It was a zombie horse with dangling rotten flesh and skin.

The animation will be in Lightwave then cached and import into H via mdd or alembic.

How could I do this fx? Painted attribute cloth? New FEM stuff?

Thanks!

[Annon]

FEM would work fine, just constrain one bit to the horse...

[Sierra62]

If you want to do the skin, I would entirely recommend doing it with cloth. If you want organs or something, use FEM. to get a nice soft look to it, the lower the damping the more it will squash before bouncing back. The anistopric strength would really help control the directional squash/stretch of the object. If you need any help with FEM I would be happy to help.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Sierra62

[poppy]

Thanks ChristianW and Sierra

I will do some test on both.

Btw is it possible to like make the whole deforming mesh a solid object then paint where i want H to simulate? Or cloth?

Say, the whole horse skin is one piece, animated, then i paint only the area around wounds to simulate (stop being deformed by mdd cache).

I saw Lightwave softbody dynamic and it look interesting.

[Sierra62]

You can paint attributes such as fracturethreshold, relativestiffness, etc. to control how each area will react; however it will still be a part of the sim. But as far I am aware if it is all one object it will all be part of the simulation. You may have better success creating a group that you want to deform and turn that specific group into a solid object and use constraints to keep it attached to the horse. This way will also reduce sim time.