Hi Iraklis, welcome to the group. I would be happy to help you some day walk you through what I know of Maya's physics engine. Please write back some time and I will schedule a time to chat with you.
Again welcome to the group, Mike On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Iraklis Akritas <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have recently joined the group and I am thoroughly enjoying the > discussions, really useful and informative indeed for people new to Maya > like myself. > > My question is related to the process of creating a custom rigid body node > to work within Maya. I want to practice and develop my physics programming > skills so I decided to take on this task. I have experience with the C++ > API but not so much with the Python one other than internal UI things, > therefore I decided to use Python to tackle this task as I believe it will > be faster to create some sort of a prototype. > > Would anyone with any insight in this area be able to give me a breakdown > of how to approach this task? > > More specifically: > > 1. What kind of node would a rigid body need to be? I am aware that you > can have a deformer node for example, will a rigid body be based on that on > something else? > > 2. I noticed that Maya uses the concept of fields for adding physics such > as gravity etc, do I need to develop a custom field somehow to work along > the rigid body node? > > 3. Any examples out there that I can have a look and gain some more > knowledge from? > > 4. How do I go about testing physics code within Maya? > > For example my primary goal would be to have a sphere, or a mesh be > affected by gravity then add collision and more attributes like friction, > velocity etc. > > Just to clarify, I am mostly after on how to tackle this in terms of Maya > and not the actual physics code. > > Thanks for all your help and time in advance, > > Iraklis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CACwWKM0s9SUuAqp_vxBiRDtNBRJf4PdLxUmSNnFiYZH-R5KjYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
