Rigid and Soft Dynamic Bodies
The two types of dynamic bodies are rigid and soft. Rigid bodies are solid objects, such as a pair of dice or a baseball, that move and rotate according to the dynamics applied. Fields and collisions affect the entire object and move it accordingly. Soft bodies are malleable surfaces that deform dynamically, such as drapes in the wind or a bouncing rubber ball. In brief, this is accomplished by making the surface points (NURBS, CVs, or polygon vertices) of the soft body object dynamic instead of the whole object. The forces and collisions of the scene affect these surface points, making them move to deform their surface.
In this section, you’ll learn about rigid body dynamics.
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