Shattering floor

[De1ty]

Hey there I was wondering if anyone would help me out with this... I am looking to create a floor shattering under pressure of a person stepping or landing like in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agk2svo7svI
If anyone can point me into a direction of a plug-in or a tut it would be awesome!! ^_^
Or even help on the Shatter function that's within Maya

Thanks in advance

[cant_touch_this]

Well I don't know of any free scripts/plugins you could use but I have used Ruins (Maya Shatter plugin) before and it might just work for your effect.

http://www.nshatter.com/

If anyone else knows of any free scripts or other plugins please let me know.

[story2rewrite]

Shatter might work. It does get a bit buggy sometimes though when you push it too far. You could set them up as active rigid bodies and the ground plane as a passive collider so it reacts to them.

Ruins, DMM and other additions unfortunately cost some dough. There's fracture for 3ds max which I've used - which is a free scirpt. Not sure if there's one for maya that's free.