Falling Leaves

[kannan]

I need to make falling leaves using dynamics, anybody know how to do it.

[cagebee]

create indudival particles with particle tool...apply some wind, gravity and drag fields so tht u get the req movement..then instance the particle with the modeled mesh...or a simple plane with texture will do.....make a couple of diff leaves to get the randomness if reqd..
hope this helps

thanks

[spiderman3]

Hey guys check out maya nCloth even that has some good options, check the link below its really cool. but same time requires gud memory

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/7/blogpost/4650/

[kannan]

Thanks guys the nCloth one is also really good......as u said memory is a major issue for that method.

[smithshn]

In that case you can create particles as individual by using of particle tool and apply some wind, gravity and drag the fields as your requirements. For this process you have required enough memory space otherwise you get the error.

[jackypunker]

This script prepares a scene for a realistic simulation of falling tree-leaves. You can also make them blow in the wind, or collide with the ground or other objects, etc.
The simulation itself is done with nCloth. The idea is to have one or several leaf models, and their corresponding low-res models (sub-divided and shaped planes, basically). This script will:
1) Scatter as many copies as you want of those leaves, on the NURBS surface of your choice (with random rotations), avoiding intersections.
2) Combine all the low-res models into a single object (named "simLeaves_Lo") , which will be simulated with nCloth.
3) Apply wrap deformers to the high-res leaves, so they will have the movement and deformations of the simulated low-res leaves.
4) Set basic parameters of the nCloth simulation, although you will have to tweak those depending on the scale of your scene/leaves and desired behaviour.

[alinamillor]

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