Hi
first off all thanks for sharing this great peace of software.
i cannot wait to see it released..
Im not sure if this is a beta issue but i can not find any "Cache to disk" feature. Is this correct? Tonly Thing i found was the object to Import diskcache ;-)
Regards
H.Kroeber
04-02-2019, 12:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2019, 12:35 PM by tyFlow.)
The "Export Particles" operator is what can be used to convert particles to PRT/tyCache format, which are stored on disk. Eventually it will be extended to support Alembic...maybe even USD.
If you use Mesh operator, 3dsMax alembic exporter should just work.
Only thing we need would be per vertex velocity support.
Oh, I see what you mean.
When the underlying PhysX engine detects a deformation change in the collider, it resets the internal mesh and keeps going....but it has no way of knowing the change in velocity between vertices because the only motion is cares about is the transform of the object itself. So in that sense, a conveyor belt will not work.
A workaround would be to convert your conveyor belt into individual many objects traveling along the path (like a bike chain)...each one its own collider. Then the PhysX engine could process their velocity.
Ah I forgot about that....
That's an interesting workaround and I will consider implementing a similar system.