Guest xionmark Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Hi there, This is a spot that Charlex did recently using the ODE engine with Maya. It has apx. 7,500 coffee beans and took only some 4-5 secs per frame to simulate (the beans were primitives). Credits: Bill watral - efx animator Oktay Aishka - efx TD Myung Lee - lighter Anthony Patti - modeler Let's get rolling on the ODE for Houdini! --Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Congratulations! Do you think that those sorts of speeds might be achievable in Houdini if there was a Primitive/Primitive Collider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xionmark Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Congratulations! Do you think that those sorts of speeds might be achievable in Houdini if there was a Primitive/Primitive Collider? 20994[/snapback] Honestly, I'm not sure only because I haven't done it yet in Houdini. But I can't imagine it being slower than Maya (I admit I'm *very* biased) ... but I hope to find out soon. --Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diula Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Let's get rolling on the ODE for Houdini! Let's not get rolling on ODE. I've been using it for a while now on Softimage XSI 4.2 and it has really horrible actual collision results. It is quite fast for BBox sims, though. If there is pressure on SESI to integrate external sim engines to H, I'd really like Aidea NovodeX (as Softimage did for v.5). Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davedjohnson Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Hey Mark, What codec did you compress that video in? I can't find a Quicktime decompressor for "xvid". Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xionmark Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 What codec did you compress that video in? I can't find a Quicktime decompressor for "xvid". 21016[/snapback] Hi Dave, It was compressed with DIVX. It runs OK with the WIN Media Player, after installing the DIVX codec of course. Here's the DIVX download page: http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/ --Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xionmark Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 <SNIP>I'd really like Aidea NovodeX (as Softimage did for v.5). 21014[/snapback] Cool, go for it. --Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 If there is pressure on SESI to integrate external sim engines to H, I'd really like Aidea NovodeX (as Softimage did for v.5). I don't think there is any pressure on them to integrate a new RBD solver - there is far more desire to have a CFD solver in there instead, IMHO. The DOPs team at SESI will enthusiatically support *any* 3rd party effort to develop solvers though - and you've probably seen some of the technical insights delivered to this forum by Mark Tucker. Personally I'm a fan of making the current RBD implementation have more options - like as in additional Colliders for primitives, good constraint setups (e.g. Hinge constraint networks) and so on. Asking SESI to hop onto another RBD engine seems a little premature to me since the current one is excellent and could be taken even further. I don't think anyone reading this forum so far have had much (or any) experience with the Novodex SDK - have you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Hi there, Let's not get rolling on ODE.I've been using it for a while now on Softimage XSI 4.2 and it has really horrible actual collision results. It is quite fast for BBox sims, though. If there is pressure on SESI to integrate external sim engines to H, I'd really like Aidea NovodeX (as Softimage did for v.5). Cheers 21014[/snapback] Every RBD solver has it's strengths and weaknesses. From what I've seen of ODE, it sure can run Primitive/Primitive sims extremely fast. Sometimes, that's what you need. I've not tried NovodeX but would like to, for comparison. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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