Dynamica
 

Dynamica 2.80 r151

Dynamica : Maya Plugin for Bullet Rigid Body Dynamics used in the animation movie Bolt



Dynamica plugin was used by Disney for physics special effects in the creation of the movie Bolt. The functionality is provided by four types of custom Maya nodes that interact with each other: dSolver, dRigidBody, dRigidBodyArray, dCollisionShape.The different nodes can be created thru the Dynamica UI. This UI can be accessed by clicking on the Dynamica icon in the EfxToolsLumiere shelf.

dSolver

There is only one of this nodes per scene. It controls the global parameters of the simulation, such as time step, library used for the simulation, ecc. It is created automatically every time a Rigid Body or a Rigid Body array is created.dRigidBodyThere can be multiple rigid bodies in the scene. It has different attributes that control it's behavior, such as mass, damping, initial position/velocity, ecc. It can be active or passive. An active rigid body is controlled by the forces and collisions in the simulation. A passive rigid body (sometimes called Kinematic) is just keyframed.dCollisionShapeRepresents the shape that is used to compute the collisions between rigid bodies. Every rigid body connects to a collision shape. Best practice is to use a collision shape that is good enough to represent the desired collision behavior. The simpler the collision shape, the faster the simulation. Currently the collision shape available are: sphere, box, infinite plane, convex hull, mesh. The convex hull collision shape and the mesh connect directly to a Maya mesh. The mesh collision shape is more precise for concave meshes, otherwise the convex hull shape should be used, because it's faster.dRigidBodyArrayIt's like a rigid body but can contain multiple rigid bodies sharing the same collision shape and simulation parameters. It's the node of choice when the rigid bodies have the same shape and speed is required. The attributes that control the initial configuration are: NumRigidBodies, InitialPosition (Multi), InitialRotation (Multi), InitialVelocity (Multi), InitialSpin (Multi).

Conclusion

To conclude Dynamica works on Windows operating system(s) and can be easily downloaded using the below download link according to MIT License license. Dynamica download file is only 16 MB  in size.
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Category: Science and Engineering 
Publisher: Erwin Coumans
Last Updated: 6/11/2023
Requirements: Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP
License: MIT License
Operating system: Windows
Hits: 497
File size: 16 MB 
Price: Not specified


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