Basic steps followed by guiding snapshots for creating a shattering object using Autodesk Maya 2012. Click on images for larger version.
- maya preferences set to cm
- time scale to 500
- create a plane polygon
- width=200 height = 200
- go to dynamic menu
- select pPlane1
- select soft/rigid bodies, create passive rigid body
- select plane, go to attributes and set Collison layer to -1 not the default 0
- create a polygon sphere
- Radius=20, translaye in Y direction to 100, in x and z set to 0
- select pSphere1, edit menu, delete by type, history [very important]
- go to dynamics menu
- select pSphere1, go to effects menu, create shatter, options, set as shown below, click apply
- you should see a solidshatter1 node under pSphere1
- select with shift , shard1 to shard20
- go to fields menu, select gravity
- Click play and the shattered sphere parts should drop and tumble to the floor.
- experiment and make changes, render, playblast etc.
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