Procedural collapses of walls, rocks/dirt falls
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| Hi, :) I have coded a generator of underground rooms, with several rooms and corridors. For now each room has a rectangular shape. Each room has one or several links to others rooms with corridors. In each room, some columns are added in order to support the weight of the rocks/sand above. But the environment looks too perfect ! What i want to do in order to add a more realistic appearance to this environment which is supposed to be an ancient underground city, is to produce collapses of walls and rocks/sand particles falls. I have thought to use an approach like this : ->Choose a position where to do the collapse ->Create several wall parts/rocks/sand particles depending on the importance of the collapse ->Associate a collider sphere to each wall part/rock/sand particle ->Make the wall parts/rocks/dirt particles move towards the ground (pitch from 22.5° to 67.5°) ->When a collision happens between a wall part/rock/sand particle and a wall or a column or a furniture or another wall part/rock/sand particle, add some rebounding, rotation, sliding depending on the weight and material of the part ->Break the column/furniture if there are to many collisions between a big part and a column/furniture ->When the speed vector is to slow, stop the part and save the position/rotation parameters of the part I think that the calculations required to produce this effect may take a lot of time if i have 100 rooms on each level. But i don't want to modelize this manually... Because i will save the parameters of each wall part, rock, sand particle after the collapse is done, this should be faster to load afterward. What do you think ? What would be your approach ? Thanks for your suggestions, Last edited 2012 |
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| From what I've heard the common approach when trying to model scattered debris and clutter in a map is to use a physics engine to drop the debris objects so that they scatter somewhat naturally. There are a few physics engines available with Blitz3D and some modeling programs have physics built in (such as Blender3d - http://www.blender.org/ ). |
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| Blender is so Cumbersome but I wish you the best of luck doing it :) AC 3D seem to be easiest 3D Modelings there is because I know as I have try it and made tank in 5 mins for my first try :) Last edited 2012 |
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