Falling Coffee Beans

Artwork Works in Progress
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Blender physics test with Rigid Body Tools
Almost 3800 objects with total face count of >39 mln poly
First of all it was baked with a low-poly Object (91 faces) then Object Data was changed to high-poly (10428 faces)
One frame rendering took ~5-6 min on GeForce GTX 560Ti, total number of frames 500
Rigid body world speed 0.3

There’s still a lot of noise (sampling samples 200)

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5 to 6 minutes per frame and still noise?! Man I hope they can get Cycles to be faster. You could render that in Blender’s renderer in like 15 seconds a frame.

Looks really nice though. The dynamics are awesome!

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Good render and very realistic beans, you could make the video a couple of seconds shorter 'cause in the end the objects always keep on moving in an unrealistic manner.

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Thanks for posting, I’ll have to look into it more… But tell if I got this right…

  1. you create a low poly object and run RB simulation
  2. You then select the low poly objects and then select the high poly last… than hit ctl L and choose object data
  3. I would have thought you would have to also capture or swap the animation data.

Most likely I am wrong on the above… maybe you can clarify if you have time.

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  1. prepare your low-poly for RB sim
  2. when you satisfied with the sim - bake it to keyframes (in my case it’s better decision)
  3. select all your baked low-poly objects and the last selection must be your high-poly object (active)
  4. Ctrl+L -> Object Data
    cheers ))
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Thanks for the clarification cooler … I’ll have to give it a try