dmmParticle usage tutorial

[Breaker]

Lots of people seem to be asking how to integrate particles into their fracturing dmm meshes however the user guide is not informative enough to be useful on this subject.

A tutorial giving a brief demo would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[pluginGuy]

Thank you for the suggestion!
There is an example in the documentation on how to do particles when fracture occur, but unfortunately it would take more refinements to really have a flexible system. We will create a particle tutorial in the future, but for now it takes a good understanding of MEL scripting to get it to work as you need.
Thanks.

[melscriptor]

there's also a bug in the MEL script included
change

tetFlags

to

outputTetFlags


"mel"

[dansidi]

Hi,

When can we expect to see this tutorial ?

And when can we have the trial limit incresed to 2500 tets ?

Both were promised a good while ago.

Thanks.

[vik]

Hi dansidi,

The Tet limit has been raised to 2500 as of Maya 2012 Hotfix 2. If you get the latest Hotfix from Autodesk (I believe they are up to 4 now) the DMM update is included.

We are still working on a couple of tutorials. One will be going up this weekend and another on particles will be coming after that.

Thanks,
Vik