Solid Shatter Limitation?

# 1 15-08-2011 , 06:25 PM

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Hi Everybody

I have started experimenting with shatter under dynamics. I've found that as long as I stick to simple primitive polygons (cube, sphere, cylinder etc), then shatter works perfectly. Even after applying some modeling to the primitive like extrude, bevel etc, it still works.
The moment I combine two or more primitives into polySurface, then I get the following:

select -r pCube1 ;
DeleteAllHistory;
solidShatter( "solidShatter", 5, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0.3668, 0, 1, "rigid bodies with collisions off", 0, 1);
// Error: If you want to shatter polySurface1, please first do Edit | Delete By Type -> History.
//
// Error: An error occurred while running the Solid Shatter script. Results may be invalid. If necessary, undo to restore the previous situation. //

The only limitation that I can find in the manual is that the polygon has to be a closed surface for solid shatter, open surface for crack shatter and open or open surface for surface shatter.

I did perform a cleanup and clear history before attempting the solid shatter.

What am I doing wrong here? Or did I hit a limitation of solid shatter?

Thanks
Johan

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# 2 17-08-2011 , 10:33 AM

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The solid shatter is pretty pants to be honest and full of bugs. I would recommend looking on CG talk in the Meye dynamics section, there is a great thread on this, I persoally recommed the following MEL script. Works really well.

https://www.creativecrash.com/maya/do.../dg_voro_py--2

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# 3 17-08-2011 , 04:07 PM

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Thanks Steve. The MEL script works great.

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# 4 05-04-2012 , 05:09 AM

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where do you put the script after you download it?

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# 5 05-04-2012 , 07:50 AM

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Hi pazromero, on my mac I placed it under /Users/<userid>/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2011-x64/scripts. Maybe one of the Windows gurus here can give us the Windows equivalent.

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# 6 05-04-2012 , 02:51 PM

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Thank you so much! i have a mac as well but it seems like the file directories are different for maya 2012. any suggestions for 2012?

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# 7 05-04-2012 , 04:09 PM

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I would think it will be the same directory structure but with 2012-x64 instead of 2011-x64. I can't remember whether this was q customizable option at installation time or not.

Other Mac users here, any ideas for this?

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# 8 05-04-2012 , 05:30 PM

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You can place it in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/scripts and it will work for any installed version of Maya.

You can also run the following, and it will give you a semi-colon delimited listing where Maya's looking for scripts.

Code:

getenv MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH;

The SOuP plugin also has a shatter node, which has a lot more features than the script above. It will be faster too, as it's written in C++. https://www.soup-dev.com/examples2_3.htm

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# 9 06-04-2012 , 10:30 AM

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Dam next design beat me to it I use SOuP for all my shattering needs user added image

It's not exactly a simple plugin to get your head round though.

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# 10 09-04-2012 , 05:13 PM

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yeah SOuP is great and amazing!!! user added image

i was wondering will i have to delete the previous shatter script in order for soup to work?

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# 11 09-04-2012 , 05:19 PM

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ThanK You!! this is a great resource will i have to delete original script i installed?

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# 12 09-04-2012 , 05:33 PM

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Nope you should not have to delete other scripts to get SOuP to work. You'll need to put in quite a bit of effort to use SOuP it's a complex beast that requires an understanding of Maya's inner workings, you'll learn a lot about Maya and how it works though if you stick with it.

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# 13 19-04-2012 , 04:30 AM

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Thank you so much! i have a mac as well but it seems like the file directories are different for maya 2012. any suggestions for 2012?

Originally Posted by pazromero

Since you have maya2012. Have you tried using the DMM plug-in that comes with maya instead of shatter. Far more better than that shatter junk.

Concrete Block Destruction with DMM plugin for Maya - YouTube

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# 14 19-04-2012 , 04:47 AM

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Since you have maya2012. Have you tried using the DMM plug-in that comes with maya instead of shatter. Far more better than that shatter junk.

Originally Posted by Ataraxy

Huh... I didn't even know it was included in 2012. Thanks for sharing!