Animating in Havok simulation?

[BillyA]

Sounds simple enough to me ...

I used havok a while back on a couple of movies i did to help promote a game we were working on, haven't used it in a little while tho'

Off the top of my head, I would include the surroundings (just the bits the can might interact with, not the whole street or whatever), the can and the character's foot, maybe even his lwer leg, make the floor, the foot/leg unmovable objects, make sure the can 'gets in the way' and away you go .. i know I know, I've made it sound reeeaaal simple, but if you follow what it says in the manual/help file, it is easy

[Chris_Mackin]

Thanks, but the part I dont know how to do is play my animation in the simulation window, how is thi done?

[BillyA]

Bear with me and I'll try and have a look tomorrow then get back to you, been using Maya for a while and and its thrown me off track :D

[Chris_Mackin]

Thanks alot :thumbsup:

[Chris_Mackin]

Bumpity bump:bounce:

[BillyA]

I setup a simple scene depicting what i think you want to achieve.

I setup a ground object to simulate the environment and out a can on the ground and a couple of small boxes for effect, now the scale is probably completely way of yours and you will probably have to tweak 'mass' values to suit

All the objects in the scene are included in the rigid body helper

I added a simple box leg that swings colliding with the can, when you preview the animation in a window, you'll see that the leg swings and hits the can and the can (and boxes) doesn't move until a collsion takes place, ie the foot hitting the can, to do this, i set the object to be 'inactive' in properties but i also had to set a key on their initial position, I made the leg inactive too and unyielding (the floor is unyielding too) - hopefully you should be able to reverse engineer this to suit your scene.

once your happy with your tweaks and it seems to play okay in the preview window, then create the animation and it will create the keys for you and it will play in max.

If none of this makes sense then get back to me, i hope it helps

[Chris_Mackin]

Thanks so much, this is really helpful. It makes perfect sense cheers.


Did i read your cv correctly? You animated for the Turtles, poddington peas and fiddly foodle???????:buttrock:

[BillyA]

Glad i could help,

Yes, you read correctly, all feels like a long time ago now, I did only a few weeks work on the turtles to help out with an episode asthey were short on people for that one, can't even remember which one it was :D ..

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