How to Make a Bowl of Random Components

Mistro11

Your geometry is too small, if you scale it 10x, it will work.

Thank you so much Cotty! That worked. It plays slow but it works. What SU version did you use? The cereal triangulated on the way down for me but renders fine.

cotty

SU 2014, I use that version to play with SP since I normally use the 64bit SU2015.
Is your "show collision" still active?
You can record the animation and watch it faster afterwards as a playback.

Mistro11

Show collision is still active. I just got a bugsplat halfway through the animation after multiplying the cereal. What kind of optimizations should I be aware of? I'm thinking my cereal have too many faces. Yeah, I wish I could use this in 2015 64bit.

cotty

For my animation, I only have deactivated the show collision setting without changing your geometry of the cereal.

Mistro11

I figured out why my scene was so heavy. I didn't make the cereal into a component. After making it into a component, it runs much smoother. Thanks again.

Rich O Brien

i think blender will serve you better in this instance. without suffering from crashes

click image to view gif...

set the bowl as a collision object

set a plane to emit your cereal shape

after simulating you can export to SU....

Mistro11

@rich o brien said:

i think blender will serve you better in this instance. without suffering from crashes

Thanks Rich. Yeah, Blender is my other workhorse. I do want to make my cereal with more complex shapes without worrying about crashes so I will try that next.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

I didn't make the cereal into a component.

of course!

Mistro11

One more question...Is it possible to tweak the scene after pausing the simulation? The cereal fell in a perfect way but I want to tweak the materials and export the scene to Thea Studio. Any attempt to select anything outside SP tools results in a reset of the simulation.

pilou

At the "pause" Save your file!
So if you reload it as a new session of SU, you can change anything before relaunch a new simulation!

Mistro11

@pilou said:

At the "pause" Save your file!
So if you reload it as a new session of SU, you can change anything before relaunch a new simulation!

Thank you Pilou! That works although I cannot press file>save when in pause. I Ctrl+S but was not sure if it worked. It sat there long enough to give me an autosave so I wasn't worried. When I restarted, it launched normally with my bowl of cereal the way I left it.