Hi all, I have been trying to get assistance from a number of places with this, but no luck. I'm working with someone on this and we REALLY need to get this figured out. We can pay a small fee for help. I'm working w/ another artist on this. Here's lowdown:
I'm trying to animate 5 rigid bodies that appear and interact/collide at different intervals. I'm working with someone on this, trying to help them and I've suggested animating the rigid bodies on/off, collision layers and a few other options. But it needs to be done w/ python. How would I do this? Here's some more info, from the artist: *I am able to have bodies fall and make contact with other bodies. That is working well. What I haven’t been able to do is sequence the falling bodies to start at different times. Either by starting a dynamics run, stop it, add another rigid body and start it again or by placing all the bodies and holding them in place until I need them during the run.* "I need to create a simple script to drop a ball on a flat plate and then drop another ball on to the same flat plate 1 second later. But I need to keyframe the transparency, Rigid Body Active on/off, Collision Layers, and several other Channel Box parameters. One ball falls, then later the second one appears, and falls. Eventually there would be 5 objects doing this, and selectively interact only certain objects." They need to do this with 1000 objects so they will need to script it. ANY help to just get started with the first couple would be greatly appreciated! Again, we can pay. I'm not sure how much but I'm pretty sure this would be quick work for someone versed in Python and Maya. Thanks, Nick -- My Photo Profile: http://www.guru.com/freelancers/carbonorchards <http://goog_1715856884> -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
