Creating a Car Crash in Maya
The focus of this Maya tutorial is to use nCloth to destroy parts of a vehicle. Software required: Maya 2015.
What you'll learn
The focus of this Maya tutorial is to use nCloth to destroy parts of a vehicle. In this tutorial, we'll take a vehicle and have it flip down a highway. We'll simulate the effects in order to get an accurate and true-to-life representation of a real car crash. Then, we'll cover how to dent metal, shatter glass, and make parts break off. By the end of the Maya training, you'll have a solid understanding of how to use nCloth to destroy most objects. Software required: Maya 2015.
Table of contents
- Discussing Destruction Goals 11m
- Simulating the Roll Cage 11m
- Continuing to Simulate the Roll Cage 12m
- Converting to Key Frames 8m
- Creating an Ncloth Metal Material 12m
- Continuing to Create a Metal Material 6m
- Rolling the Vehicle 12m
- Simulating the Vehicle Body 12m
- Breaking Glass 12m
- Continuing to Break Glass 6m
- Creating Breakaway Objects 10m
- Continuing to Create Breakaway Objects 7m
- Finalizing the Simulation 5m
About the author
Todd Palamar has worked in the computer animation industry for 23-years. His career started at a young age doing traditional special effects work on several direct to video movies. He later transitioned from film to games, working on numerous video games, including Sega of Japan's coin-operated title Behind Enemy Lines, as well as Dukes of Hazzard and Trophy Buck 2 for the Sony PlayStation console. Todd taught computer animation for 6 years at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. During... more