To better explain what I'm looking to do: I am able to have bodies fall and make contact with other bodies. That is working well. What I haven’t been able to do is sequence the falling bodies to start at different times. Either by starting a dynamics run, stop it, add another rigid body and start it again or by placing all the bodies and holding them in place until I need them during the run.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nick On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Nick Scholtes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering how exactly to do something like this. It's for an animation > that has three rigid bodies in the first part, then has a 4th join in > (appears from the side), then a 5th object joins in. See below. > > **** > > here is a link to a problem that is very similar structurally to what I’m > trying to do: multiple rigid bodies released at different times with > defined initial conditions at the prescribed time of their release. > > Here’s an animation: > http://pyode.sourceforge.net/tutorials/pyode_tut3.avi<http://redir.aspx?C=b82fff9e4f2e4a30ba8e428e1dba88d2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpyode.sourceforge.net%2ftutorials%2fpyode_tut3.avi> > > This is the python code (it uses a kinematics provided by pyODE and > graphics by pyOpenGL): > http://pyode.sourceforge.net/tutorials/tutorial3.py<http://redir.aspx?C=b82fff9e4f2e4a30ba8e428e1dba88d2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpyode.sourceforge.net%2ftutorials%2ftutorial3.py> > > I want to use the Maya script editor with python script to do largely > the same thing using the Maya’s dynamics module and animation. > > ***** > > Thanks, > Nick > -- > My Photo Profile: > http://www.guru.com/freelancers/carbonorchards > <http://goog_1715856884> > > "It isn't how much you have that creates a sense of freedom. It's how you > feel about what you have, or don't have, that either keeps you prisoner or > sets you free." - Suze Orman > > -- My Photo Profile: http://www.guru.com/freelancers/carbonorchards <http://goog_1715856884> "It isn't how much you have that creates a sense of freedom. It's how you feel about what you have, or don't have, that either keeps you prisoner or sets you free." - Suze Orman -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
