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Houdini's dynamics system (DOPs) is a very powerful tool that allows users to not only simulate physics, but to interact with the simulation in order to make an impossible looking effects shot look realistic. This is what has made DOPs the dynamics software of choice for high-end feature effects in a very short time. This DVD covers the rigid body dynamics (RBD) features of Houdini, as well as the controls and forces that are common to RBD, cloth and hair systems (though cloth and hair are not covered in this DVD). Houdini’s rigid body dynamics have been used to make characters run through walls (X-Men 3), crumble to pieces (Gatorade commercial), and to make objects on a cruise ship fly around as the ship capsizes (Poseidon). This disc is a comprehensive reference, covering features in great detail through many simplified examples, as well as completed case studies of a bowling ball, dominoes, an exploding building and a crashing train.

RBD Objects
Explosions and Fractured Objects
Constraints
Solvers
Forces
Tweaking Simulations
Managing Object Relationships
Integrating Simulations with Other Effects

01: Introduction
02: RBD Object Parameters
03: Case Study 1 - Dominoes
04: Collision Geometry and SDFs
05: Fractured and Glue Objects
06: Case Study 2 - Bowling
07: Object Affector Relationships
08: Animating Simulation Parameters
09: Constraints
10: Case Study 3 - Newton's Cradle
11: Extracting Simulation Information
12: DOPs Expressions
13: Solvers
14: Case Study 4 - Building Collapse
15: Forces
16: Case Study 5 - Crashing Train
17: Global Simulation Parameters