New features in Thinkinetic’s massive rigid body dynamics solver and fracturing plugin include
- Shattering of objects is now 20% faster.
- New Preview Mode for shattering – allows to visualize
shatter params before breaking the geometry. - Conform Voronoi Reshattering – users are not longer
constrained when reshattering a model, any shatter pattern can be added
to the current set of fragments seamlessly. In addition new Conform
Voronoi reshattering reduces the number of straight edges in the
shatter pattern, hence improving the quality of the fragments generated. - New Width parameter for Radial Shatter – adjust the size of
radial pattern visually. - New Undo Last button for undoing only the last shatter
operation. - New Crackers Window – for controlling dynamic
cracks, you have several parameters for adjusting the cracks’
generation. - New Clusters Panel – users can now set clusters of
fragments with different fracture parameters in the same fracture body,
clusters can be edited at any time and are saved with the scene. - Bounded Force fields can break fracture bodies – any
bounded force field can break fracture bodies in an accurate way. - Speed up auto body creation – creating many rigid bodies at
once from complex geometry is much faster now.
Plus bug fixes. Two videos showing the new features at work are available: video 1, video 2. More on Pulldownit’s site.
