Top Tip Tuesday - Granular Crumble

In this week’s Top Tip Tuesday, we are emitting particles from a statue object, setting them up to work with nxFluids in granular sim mode. We use nxInfectio to create an organic growth, which moves particles into different groups. The nxFluids granular settings then combine with nxGravity, utilizing different particle groups to give a gradual crumbling.
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[@RadGnarRad]

Man, this one is so good. I think you should emphasis just how important the ordering (putting NeXus effectors above and below) is. At first, my sim wasn't working.... once I did this it worked. Very important bruh

[@crableproductions5112]

These top tip tuesdays are great.

[@mirospain]

Houdini style but much more accessible. well done!

[@RedDaveMotion]

Brilliant, love it! Thank you!

[@asmrdrift]

Excellent! Can’t wait to try it!

[@Chewbacca2000]

So cool!! Thanks man!!

[@ExpressoMechanicTV]

Great - thanks for sharing!

[@Usselino]

very cool, love it!

[@alexeybridger8136]

Cool stuff!

[@designcitystudio]

Super cool, trying it

[@eveee_]

Amazing!

[@sergiomarchelli]

wow, great!!! is there going to be summer -40% 😇

[@haydenmartin5866]

Ok and what’s your solution for making crumble from the bottom upwards…? So far I’ve never seen XP do a correct solve for this. Always leaves chunks hovering despite being completely disconnected

[@bobwalmsley1]

Crumbling from the bottom may require a different setup. 1 option would be to have gravity affecting all of the particles all of the time. This way the statue will collapse as you would expect - the feet/ankles would give way and the rest of the grains would fall. You could use fields to add more sophisticated animation. The other option would be to use the method in this video, but to add an nxQuestion particle Neighbour search. This would move particles into the gravity group if their neighbour count was below a certain threshold. This would prevent particle clumps from floating.

[@haydenmartin5866]

@@bobwalmsley1 let’s see it in action 🙏

[@jamiepowell3724]

​@@bobwalmsley1 coming out with the top-tips within top-tips! Your talents know no bounds 😎

[@bobwalmsley1]

@@jamiepowell3724 ha ha - thanks buddy!

[@JacsonMitchell-pw1th]

is it possible to get this effect on something that is animating instead of static?

[@bogscave]

That's why I can't touch C4D's particle system! That's insanely cool!! 🤩