Dynamics problem... polaroids falling to the ground..... too thin? or something else?

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Hi guys…

I have a problem…I am trying to make an animation of a bunch of polaroids falling to the ground… I have made sure to scale them up so that they have a decent depth… (there is only so much I can do to avoid them looking like cubes)…but to no avail…they are still intersecting one another…

I have the substeps cranked up to 5 which is the max…(??? from what I can tell)

do u guys have any hints/suggestions how to achieve this?

Also…they do not really bounce… and I can’t find bounce settings for either the polaroids or the collision plane…

Thank you…

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In the Physics tab what physics type are they and what collision bounds do they have?http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=29204

The ‘bounce’ can be achieved by changing the elasticity settings in the materials on both objects.
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=29205

If messing around with the physics and bounding box doesn’t help, you can always upload your .blend.

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Thanks for your help… my simulation runs better now that I have the bounding box setting straight… I had no idea there were physics settings in materials…

Thanks again…Tom

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No problem - glad to help. :wink: