Cineversity

Hi

I want to animate a small character made from found objects - see attached image. At some point pieces will drop to the ground and the chainmail is made from rings cloned to an invisible cloth object. The height of the character is about 11cm.

When I was doing some early tests i was getting strange behaviour when things were scaled so small.

Are there critical settings with dynamics and cloth dynamics that need to be adjusted when the objects in the scene are small?

Cheers
Chris

Hi Chris,

Please have a look here:
https://help.maxon.net/#DYNWORLDOBJECT-WORLD_GROUP_EXPERT

The Scale parameter is the one you might want to change. The total size of the character is not the measurement here, the cloth-size itself should be the first indicator, but perhaps even smaller.

My best wishes

That’s sort of what I figured. I expect I’ll have some issues but fingers crossed…

Thanks dr sassi

You’re very welcome, Chris.

As an alternative: You can set the whole scene to a larger scale in the Project-settings if the little knight is the only dynamic object.

All the best

Thanks.

There will be larger dynamic objects as well.

Hi Chris,

I really would like to help, but so far I can’t do more.

As usual, I have so far only an image from your scene. Images might give a tiny glimpse of the scene, but that is all there is to it.
I rely on scene-files, pretty much always. Anything else is not really how I can give you any further advice.

What I know so far, is, that you have a small scale, but you like to have also a larger scale in the scene. Which eliminates to a certain degree the comfort to set it up with the Project settings in general.
On the other hand, I really don’t know if your set up causes the trouble, independent from the scale. Who knows without scene-file.

So, to get at least a little bit into the helping position I made a very tiny scene and set the Project settings to the opposite. Even then it worked. In other words, set the scale and check if the problem vanishes. If not, its probably not the scale.

Caching or even writing parts out as Alembic, might help.

Let me know when you have something to share, even privately. A scene reduced to the parts in question, with no 3rd party items in it, please.

Cheers