# Soft Body and Surface Deform help

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/soft-body-and-surface-deform-help/1635451>\
**Category:** Particles and Physics Simulations\
**Tags:** modifier, car, animation\
**Created:** [March 26, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/soft-body-and-surface-deform-help/1635451 "2026-03-26T13:26:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Dhruv\_Choksi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/dhruv_choksi/32/1324264_2.png) [@Dhruv\_Choksi](https://blenderartists.org/u/Dhruv_Choksi)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/soft-body-and-surface-deform-help/1635451/1 "2026-03-26T13:26:26Z")

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So I am making a car chase animation and in that i want to have a scene of a car crash for that I used soft body and surface deform modifiers (seeing a tutorial on youtube) but now when i try to apply the surface deform modifier my car would stay in that mesh shape only. If i apply it after the crash then car would be in deformed shape and if i apply it before crash then the car would be intact even on a crash so help me in figuring out on how to apply the modifiers so the car can perfectly deform on crash

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**Author:** ![Evolved\_Godzilla](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/evolved_godzilla/32/1346504_2.png) [@Evolved\_Godzilla](https://blenderartists.org/u/Evolved_Godzilla)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/soft-body-and-surface-deform-help/1635451/2 "2026-04-05T20:11:34Z")

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You’d be better off in a software like Houdini for car crash simulations