Object Paint + Physics

Corona Corona Common General CG Discussion
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Looking for a workflow solution to paint objects and apply physics simulation to those objects to generate natural (physical) placement.

  • There is an implementation of this already called PhysX Painter, but I have not found it useful for production, i.e. not suitable for medium / high poly objects.
  • There is a straightforward but tedious solution using Tyflow, but it is not easily scalable or user friendly:

3ds Max Object Paint -> assign multi/sub-object material to scattered objects -> apply TyFlow (birth objects, physx shape (convex hull), physx collision (mesh) -> simulate
TyFlow does not currently support Corona Renderer and does not plan to, AFAIK.

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It works fine with Corona with some minor issues like lack of instancing support, but this should be a big problem in this case.

You can also use 3ds Max Cloth modifier, but it’s kinda slow (IIRC it’s single-threaded).

There is also this interesting new kid, maybe it could be used here?

Or something in Blender? :smiley: