Exercise 14.1 Creating Hard-Body Dynamics
This tutorial will take a few basic objects and show you how to make them interact. From
there, you??™ll change variables to see the how the dynamic toolsets work.
1. Open LightWave Layout.
2. Load the Solids model from the Chapter 14 folder of this book??™s DVD (Figure
14.2). This model has just one layer, containing a few geometric shapes set up as
an ???obstacle course.???Also, load the Ball model from the DVD??™s Chapter 14 folder.
You??™ll use dynamics to animate the ball object as it rolls around, and interacts
with, the Solids model??™s shapes.
Figure 14.2 The Solids model loaded, ready for some dynamic action. Exciting, isn??™t it?
3. Select the ball and move it up on the Y-axis so that it??™s positioned above the top of
the highest box. Create a keyframe at 0 to lock it in place, as in Figure 14.3.
Figure 14.3 Position the ball at the top of the slide.
Note
4. With the ball selected, press p to open the Object Properties panel. Although this
tutorial is simple, you??™ll see how cool the dynamic effects can be.
5. Click the panel??™s Dynamics tab, and select Hard from the Add Dynamic dropdown
to apply a HardFX dynamic to the ball object.
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