Animated Fractured Geometry

[Gubkin]

Hello everyone,

 

I have got a model in a T-pose and a point cache for the animation. I have setup that in houdini using a point VOP but I have no idea how to fracture the character and for the pieces to follow the animation. Here is an example of what I want to do:

 

 

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I managed to do it with a clothcapture + clothdeform but its really slow, is there any other way to do that?

Edited March 2, 2016 by Gubkin

[mestela]

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniDops#RBD_packed_prims_and_deforming_geo

[Gubkin]

Thank you for this link, some really cool stuff there although not what I needed because I am using a point cache to apply the animation and therefore I can't apply it after I have fractured the geometry as in the example in your link.

After the research I've done I think clothcapture + clothdeform is the way to go, I couldn't find any other way.

[Juraj]

Hi,

I recently used this technique (check attached file). It might be faster than cloth capture + deform.

It worked well for me for most cases but sometimes it went wrong (when I had extreme deformations and even cloth way did not work), then I used wrap deformer in Maya which did the trick

 

Juraj

jt_fracture_deformed.hipnc

[Gubkin]

Hey Juraj, nice setup I will have to try it in my scene, thanks!