Fracture now includes an API that allows developers to swap our (unfinished) proprietary solver with any RB solver of their choosing. As a case-study, we plugged in Bullet and did some performance tests. See video below for more details.
Sneak Peek: Swappable solvers from Fracture on Vimeo.
The guys at http://www.8bitsmovie.com/ used Fracture extensively for their short-movie and made some making-of movies about the destruction process.
8BITS_vfxBreakdown : Helicopter crash from Jean Delaunay on Vimeo.
8BITS_vfxBreakdown : Station explosion from Jean Delaunay on Vimeo.
8BITS_vfxBreakdown : Water tank breaking from Jean Delaunay on Vimeo.
Going from 20 num points to 200 with the click of a button, check!
Interactively moving point cloud clusters to adjust fragments, check!
Interactively previewing and modifying split planes, check!
Key Features: History - Dynamic Regeneration from Fracture on Vimeo.
Another video in the Key features series, this time about the attribute spreadsheet. The attribute spreadsheet allows you to manipilate and change attributes on several Fracture-related nodes at the same time, drastically increasing efficiency and ease-of-use.
Subsequent Fracturing allows you to procedurally set up secondary, tertiary (etc.) fracturing. This demo also illustrates the chance filter and the subsequent fracture modifier.
Click on link to view in HD on vimeo!
In this Key Features demonstration Ed uses a simple destruction set-up to illustrate the ease-of-use of Takes in Fracture. Takes allow you to bake out iterations of simulations and ultimately remove all sim data so the simulated geometry can be passed down the pipeline.
Key Features: Takes from Fracture on Vimeo.
We are in the process of creating a set of demo's show-casing Fracture's key features. Although Fracturing normally happens using voronoi, Fracture offers a plethora of alternative4s to voronoi: crack image, paint cracks, split planes, etc. This video starts by explaining 2 brand-new fracturing methods: radial and cluster.
Key Features: Alternatives to voronoi from Fracture on Vimeo.
All destruction in this shot was done exclusively with Fracture. VFX by Brickhouse VFX. Property of MGM.
Shot from Stargate SGU Incursion pt 1(s01e19) | Property of MGM from Fracture on Vimeo.
The folks at Stargate Studios use Fracture for NBC's chart-topping series Heroes. You can see Fracture put to use in the following episodes:
- 407 - Strange ATtractors - Police station collapse.
- 416 - Pass / Fail - Sinkhole that swallows the town.
- 418 - The Wall - Carnival Trailer sinking into the ground.
- 419 - Series Finale - fight between Peter and Samuel.