 | | | Re: Assembly room placement tool | Re: Assembly room placement tool 2005-09-26 - By joe_ashear
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I haven't used Hexagon, but the tool you describe sounds great.
I've envisioned something similar which uses the physics engine to let you drop
objects
onto each other, so that they settle into a natural position. You could drop
apples into a
bowl, for instance, and they would nestle together properly. Or put a whole
bunch of
Christmas ornaments above a tree and drop them all at once, whereupon they fall
until
they hang on the branches.
You could use the existing physics engine to do this, but it would take forever
, calculating
a lot of unnecessary bouncing and so forth. I picture my "drop" feature as
something that
that basically starts with simple collision detection, and then fine tunes the
result with a
sort of simplified quasi-physics.
- Joe
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Steve" <Steve@(protected)> wrote:
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> I would like to see something like the "Lay On" function in Hexagon
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> tool. The manipulator is cool but if you want to add say; a dozen new
> buttons to a shirt or lay something precisely on a surface (aside from
> collision detection, which is pretty good) in scenes where you have upwards
> of a hundred objects then the assembly room, while very precise and capable
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