Some time we have to need some kind of fractures and cracks in our scenes. For example we have a scene of a highway or a road and we have to explode something there. Later, an explosion creates damages and cracks in area. We are going to discuss the technique of creating cracks or fractures in our scene in this tutorial. We are going to fracture a road in this video. we will crack a road with help of Autodesk Maya’s great tool “Maya nCloth”.
This is a very detailed tutorial.
We will start with a simple poly plane and we will stretch and scale this cube according to our need. After few tweaks we will create a well looking road. We will use “split poly tool” for creating cracks details in the road. Keep in mind that basic geometry should be soft and new edges hard. When you satisfied with cracks details, switch to Edges mode by right clicking the plane.
Now set you your menu as Polygons and go to Select menu and click on “Select using constraints …” After that press your spacebar at keyboard. This will activate hot menu. Select Edit Mesh and click on Detach Component. We will do little bit more tweaks in our road then we will go to dynamic menu set. We will us nCloth for our cracks animation. We will use other dynamic feature like Gravity filed and some forces for our final result.