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Blender Destruction

Irony of such simulations is that we create something just to destroy it. In a sense, we creating destruction.

Hopefully, we have plenty of tools at our disposal to obliterate, demolish and explode. Some of them – like rigidbody fracture by physics – are obviously linked to destruction. But if we think outside the box,  some other tools – like cloth simulation – can create an interesting destruction possibilities too!

1.  Soft body demolition (requires special branch from Graphicall.org)

A few words on this technique. It’s not included in Blender by default and I don’t know exactly whether this branch is being supported or not. But anyway, softbody with polygon breaking threshold is an interesting way to destroy.

2. Rigid body (unconstrained) + fracture

Rigid body plus fracture – what can I say? Perhaps, it’s the most popular combo used to simulate destruction.

3. Rigid body (constrained) + fracture

We can alter destruction behavior using constraints to keep objects together under certain threshold.

4. Build modifier

Build modifier hides (random) polygons over time.

5. UFO anti gravitational beam

Explode modifier and some particles – ‘fake’ way of doing destruction, but in some cases it provides interesting results. For example, pieces of paper flying in the air.

6. Cloth simulation + 0 stiffness 

Yep, cloth can be used to simulate a crumpling and deformation of the surface.

7. Boolean modifier

Using Boolean modifier in Blender, we can slice the geometry.

8. Molecular add-on

Molecular add-on (another very promising, but somewhat unstable tool) can be used to simulate such substances as sand, mud, jelly and many other particle-based effects.

9. Molecular one more time (for the wind effect)

Something else?

Know other ways of destruction? Go ahead and share it!

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