Soft Bodies Basics

In this free video tutorial you will learn how to create a soft body with Maya Dynamics. This video tutorial is for beginners.

Hand-on Excercise …………………

How to create a soft body?

It’s very simple,

1. Create a ground

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2. Create a NURBS sphere with a little high resolution,

Sections = 16
Spans = 12

3. Select the sphere

4. Move the sphere a little upwards

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5. Select Dynamics Menu set

6. Go to the Soft/Rigid Bodies Menu

7. Select Create Soft Body

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8. Go the Fields Menu

9. Select Gravity

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10. Select sphere and then shift select the ground

11. Go to the Particle Menu

12. Select Make Collide

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13. Play the animation

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You can create unbelievable effects using soft bodies such as water flow, viscosity, plasma effects and much much more with soft bodies.