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artcross
03-31-2009, 08:40 PM
hello all, i've been trying for hours to get this to work, but no avail. I have a stack of $100 bills (15 polygon planes) setup as a ncloth mesh. I want the bills to blow away from the top of the stack to the bottom of the stack (top bill flies off, then the next, then increases exponentially until they are all blown away). What I get is either a big explosion of bills or the bills just sort of glide on the plane as a group. Any suggestions you might have would be very appreciative, thank you.
Wick3dParticle
04-01-2009, 03:37 AM
Hey Jonathan.
What I would do is zero out the gravity in the nucleus solver. Then apply a gravity field to the bills. Make it a volume and have that volume exclude the force. Do the same with a turbulence field. Put the bills inside these two volumes. Then create an Air field or something with a force pushing upwards in the Y and make it a volume as well, but not excluding. Then push that air field through your bills, going from up to down.

Good Luck,

~Ilan
john_homer
04-01-2009, 04:10 AM
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_duncan/blog_detail/animating_a_book_with_ncloth/

.j
HowardM
04-02-2009, 10:16 AM
there was a post here about a month or so ago... look it up.
artcross
04-07-2009, 04:40 PM
Thanks for the replies.
Ilan, your method works beautifully! thank you! I never would have though to approach it like that. All i need to do is some tweaking and I should be good. Duncan's animation is beautiful, but it's not quite what I was looking for. I think I just found that other post about this, going to give a read too. thanks again.
Wick3dParticle
04-07-2009, 04:44 PM
Awesome...glad I was able to help! Hope all is well in BK, I used to live there too.

~Ilan
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