How to Emit Rigid Body Objects | Houdini 19.5

[@bananaboy1100]

I've seen a few of this type of tutorial, but none of them seem to include a way for each of the instanced / spawned rigids to have constraints and keep those constraints intact until they hit the ground then break. any ideas? thanks

[@Emeteriowallace]

Thanks for this tutorial! You are amazing!

[@InsideTheMindSpace]

Thanks for the support!

[@i20010]

Great tutorial! How do we return the texture to the objects (toy) after the simulation? Thanks!

[@jakemiller9960]

What if I don't want to use a gravity force? For some reason, the other forces don't seem to work within the DOP network when I try applying them the same way as gravity. Any ideas? Great tutorial!!

[@sdados3725]

Hey thanks for sharing this tutorial, it was super useful! How could I create an age attribute for the rigid bodies? I need to make the rigid bodies dissolve after a certain age

[@InsideTheMindSpace]

There's multiple ways to do that. You can probably get the creation time using f@creationtime and then use the difference between the creation time and the current time to calculate the age

[@sdados3725]

@@InsideTheMindSpace thank you so much for such a quick answer! the f@creationtime should be used in an attribute wrangler? Would that go in the dopnet or after the assemble node when I spawn the points?

[@InsideTheMindSpace]

Yeah it would go in a wrangle. I'm not 100% sure if you need it outside or inside the solver but give it a shot and one of them should work

[@sdados3725]

@@InsideTheMindSpace Tomorrow morning I'll try! Thank you for your help!

[@watkinscreatives]

not sure why but after routing my grid to a null object, then in the dopnet importing it as a static object, the packed RBD still just clips right through it.

[@watkinscreatives]

oh wait i just caught the comment about left to right thanks to @banannaboy1100's comment