New user…*Particle Mesh Questions

[Shotster]

I’m a little unclear as to how exactly to initiate the drop. When you say “let it fall to the ground”, how is that action initiated?

Ok, so it helps to have a version of C3D that supports rigid body dynamics. I'm now running the latest version, and I have followed this tutorial, but my coins fall straight through the ground plane.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Both ground plane and coin have a rigid body tag, with the former set to "static". Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

-Steve

 

[frank beckmann]

You can check the file from the tutorial under Help->Cheetah3d Samples-Dynamics->Rigid Body 2.jas
The ground-plane needs to be "static" while the coins are "dynamic".

Cheers
Frank

PS: here´s a quick set-up:

 

[Shotster]

Thanks for the sample file. It helped me realize that I had the rigid body tag on the coin inside the particle array and not he particle array itself! I've now got it working!

Thanks misoversaturated and frank beckmann for the helpful insights!

-Steve