I’ve got some difficulties with softbody in the 2.40. I try to make the Boucing Ball exemple and nothing happen: the ball fall against the plane and do not want to bounce, just become a sort of ‘Plane’ or disk…
Another problem: i want to animate Suzanne with softbody for the ears. When she turns her head, the ears comport themself like softbody. But nothing happen. I disable the goals, try some value but nothing. More, the object doesn’t want to move if i place a key at the frame 0 and another (with another position) in frame 21 for exemple? I play with the weight too
Any idea? Any good link to the documentation or tutorials?
Letting a ball bounce around with softbody??
For collision simulation stuff, Blender is still in its infancy. You can fake it though (WARNING: I’ve never tried the following soulutions my self). Make the room the ball is bouncing in a softbody. Make it ‘hard’. Use softbody to softbody collision and let your softer ball bounce around in it.
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Before you enable softbody for your ball, bake the collision using the Bullet game engine. When you have your IPO’s enable softbody for your ball and bake the animation. I think I’m talking nonsense here, but if the first method doesn’t work, it won’t hurt to try it like this.
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Do it by hand. After the first collision, keep keyframing the ball toward the other walls etc.
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Forget softbody. Make a shape for an elongated ball and one for a compressed ball. Use game engine collision and adjust the shape as you go along.
For the bouncing ball, it was just a try to use softbody. Nevermind.
Great thanks, Fligh % for your .blend. It seems i use the same setings, but my Suzanne doesn’t response like yours %|… so i look for the diffrences!