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Bouncing Ball
I am trying to make a ball bounce but dont have the luxury of dynamics. I have Clothilde but can’t get the ball from defroming into a cloth shape no matter how much stiffness etc I try.
Has anybody got any setting suggestions or other ways I might achieve this.
Cheers
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check out Tim Clapham,s site – in his downloads section here https://www.hypa.tv/tims/download.html he has Clothilde simple dynamics with a downloadable example – 4 or 5 down on the right side. It’s pretty easy really just set stiffness fairly high over 100% and make sure Flexion is close to 100%. In spite of it’s name Flexion acts like a form of stiffness – side to side – and the higher the number the less it wants to flex.
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If you turn flexion up to 100% and stiffness up to 1000+% you can get a ball that only deforms a little bit.
Haven’t tried this, but you should be able to bake the clothilde animation with Capuccino (this is possible), then use Xpresso to drive your ball’s position with the position of one of the points from the baked object.
Or you could simply do it with f-curves. Adjust the y curve so it looks like a bouncing ball curve (example: https://tinyurl.com/58v45t) and then animate the x/y position to suit your needs.
Or lastly, you could by the PhyRis and/or Silver Bullet plugins by Remotion, which make hard-body physics very easy.
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