Creating the effect of someone writing on soil/the ground.

[fatboYYY]

Hey,

 

how would I go about creating the effect/animation of our Character writing something on the ground/soil?

I had couple of ideas how to go about it:

- Displace a grid along a spline representing what the character writes -> Create grains on grid -> Rigid Body Simulation with the character's finger

- Create grains on grid -> Displace Grid with transfer attribute with the character's finger + Rigid Body Simulation

 

We are going for a realist as possible look, so I don't know how good these would really look and or work. I am happy for any help.

 

Cheers,

Manuel

[mosssi]

I don't know how it looks but another possible method would be emitting particles from finger tip and interact with displaced grid although you render another version of grid which has animated displacement.

[ranxerox]

 look in the helpcard for the solver sop.  There is a "footsteps" setup which might work with some tweaking.

 

 -G