Alternative to Assembly SOP

[CinnamonMetal]

Is there an alternative to using the assembly SOP with RBD ?

[tamagochy]

You can use pack node.

[Nicholas Ralabate]

It is an HDA, so you can just dig inside and delete the parts you don't need.

I don't think this is the intent of your question but to be pedantic...  you can technically use both Bullet and RBD in a non-packed form.  There are certain things that affords you, like volume-based collisions instead of Bullet's convex hulls.  You can also do coupled sims between the RBD solver and the wire solver.  The packed Bullet workflow was introduced in H13 if you want to look up the masterclass.

[CinnamonMetal]

@xxyxxy Volume-based collisions and coupled sims between the RBD and wire solver ?

[Nicholas Ralabate]

See this thread: 

 

[CinnamonMetal]

On 11/21/2019 at 8:09 PM, xxyxxy said:

It is an HDA, so you can just dig inside and delete the parts you don't need.

I don't think this is the intent of your question but to be pedantic...  you can technically use both Bullet and RBD in a non-packed form.  There are certain things that affords you, like volume-based collisions instead of Bullet's convex hulls.  You can also do coupled sims between the RBD solver and the wire solver.  The packed Bullet workflow was introduced in H13 if you want to look up the masterclass.

@xxyxxy

You mention you can use Bullet and RBD in a non-packed form, how ? As well as volume-based collisions ?