Beginning VFX with Autodesk Maya: Create Industry-Standard Visual Effects from Scratch

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A. KumarBeginning VFX with Autodesk Mayahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7857-4_7

7. Maya’s Rigid and Soft Body Systems

Abhishek Kumar¹  

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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

This chapter unveils the power of realistic animation using Maya’s rigid and soft body dynamics. You will explore the rigid body dynamics and soft body dynamics systems using dominoes and a curtain example, followed by rigid and soft body constraints in Maya.

Introduction to Rigid Bodies

The previous versions of Maya placed the legacy rigid bodies in the Fields/Solvers menu. This menu contains the Active Rigid Body and Passive Rigid Body options, which are the traditional rigid body systems, ...