Ik Spline/dynamic Field Connection

[lilmac024]

First off, I want to say hello. I'm VERY new to Maya and have found this site and all the tutorials and post to be extremly helpful.

Now for my question. I have created a couple of joints that I have connected with an IK spline. I then binded the joints to geometry, creating a skin. I now want to create a dynamic field (such as gravity) to affect the geomety. Everytime I try to attach the gravity to geometry, I get an error that says that I need to select a rigid body to attach to the field.

Is there anyway to attach a dynamic field to an IK?

Thank you in advance for all of your help.

~Matt

[joojaa]

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Is there anyway to attach a dynamic field to an IK?

yes but you have to do it inidrectlt by making a series of history dependent controllers that are affected by the fields.

PS. golden rule of 3d is that it has no grounds in reality, it may fool you into thinking it has but the computer world finds certain day to day real world operations totally bewilderingly complex to do. Because reality is atleast about 10^100 times more complex than the most complex models we could make (however even scientsist dont know HOW complex)

[lilmac024]

Thanks, I'll have to give that a try. Essentially what I'm trying to do is to create a tower of individual floors. I then want to add dynamics to the tower (wind, drag, gravity, newtonian, etc.) to create a deformation of the tower. However, since it's a tower, I also want it to act in such a way that when the top floor moves, it affects the lower levels. All this is for an architecture class that's a basic introduction to Maya and how to not use it stictly as a representaion tool, but also a way to influence design decisions.

Again, I truely appreciate everyone's help!

~Matt

[joojaa]

Urghh... why would you want to. There is however a fem plug in for maya available for free downloads in the plug-ins section use it.