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brainspoon
05-03-2003, 04:17 PM
am i right that an object in the real world will fall one meter in the first second?
why does an object in maya with a gravity field connected to it doesn't do the same?
i created a sphere and raised it to 100 units because the world setting in maya is cm. i had to raise the magnitude of the gravity field to 217 to have the sphere fall all the 100 cm in 25 frames.

most dynamic simulations i see look kinda slow motion.

so is anyone here who can tell me how to achieve real world gravity in maya?
brainspoon
05-03-2003, 06:32 PM
little mistake.. it has to fall 9,81 meter in the first second i think. please correct me if not
Jozvex
05-04-2003, 12:33 AM
With my units set to metres, it takes a value of 1960 in the Gravity field to make an object fall 9.8 metres in the first second.

There was a huge discussion about scale and dynamics in Maya somewhere....I'll try and find it.
Jozvex
05-04-2003, 12:37 AM
Found it!

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/archive/sp.3d?mail_id=55425
brainspoon
05-04-2003, 01:13 AM
i found it out myself. once you understand the big relationship it's easy.
but i still have the problem that i have to set the calculation step size and collision tollerance very low to get nearly acceptable results
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