Tuesday, April 27, 2010

StrandTree - Simulation WIP



Tree simulation - wip from Fabricio Chamon on Vimeo.

First steps on building a dynamics framework for the trees. (Heavily based on Phil's Strand Dynamics compounds).

What's working right now:

- strand forces: gravity, drag, wind
- strand stiffness
- geometry collision

Issues still being addressed:

- mantain initial tree shape
- too much jiggling and stretching of strands
- optimization: modeling strands apart from dynamics strands
- localized branch constraints
- leaf dynamics

I hope this can get released soon.
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7 comments:

  1. euphoricgauravDecember 17, 2010 at 1:50 AM

    Hi,

    I am going through your tutorial to simulate tree but not getting how to get SIMULATE TREE , MOVE TREE NODES in softimage...Please help

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  2. AnitaMarch 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM

    Hi, great work! Any news about this? This would be useful now :)

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  3. UnknownMarch 4, 2011 at 9:21 AM

    Hehe sorry I was with my girlfriend's login (Anita).

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  4. Juan CamiloMay 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    i've been dissecting the compounds that you released, and managed to understand how you were using arrays to create the strands.

    Although i'm aware you did not release the simulation nodes to perform the dynamics, i trying to develop some of my own, but I still can't figure out how to stick the particles to strands in a simulated ICE tree during playback.

    Any chance you could throw me a hint?

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  5. Fabricio ChamonMay 2, 2011 at 8:10 PM

    Hi Juan, sure. Please drop me an e-mail: fabricio.chamon@gmail.com

    I'll send you the scene so that you can take a look inside.

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  6. JulienAugust 21, 2011 at 8:23 AM

    OK, that's getting sick! :)
    You did a great tree generator, with fantastic operability, and now there will be dynamics.

    That's a huge piece of work!
    Julien

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  7. UnknownNovember 10, 2012 at 1:43 AM

    been a year and no update on this, sadness.

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