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Soft body disappear in Animation

I have a problem regarding a soft body-cloth interaction. I want to create an animation of a cube falling onto a cloth and both objects reacting accordingly, with different reaction depending on the ...
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Best way to make a soft body object return to its original shape after a collision

I have an object with a soft body that collides with a plane with a collider, and I want the object to return to its original shape after the collision. What's the best way to achieve this? I've been ...
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Soft body behaving like a magnet near collision plane

I'm using a soft body simulation on an animated sphere and a collision modifier on the plane. When the sphere gets close to the plane, it behaves like a magnet. Does anyone know why this is happening? ...
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Adding multiple bones that react to physics naturally

I am trying to add tassels to my model, which happens to have many tassels. All of which have bones, which react to gravity and movement realistically. I was using Wiggle bones, but i noticed that i ...
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Soft bodies for car tires

How would you go about using soft bodies for the tire tread of a car? I can simulate the tread by itself squishing and deforming easily, however, I haven't figured out how to attach it to a tire rim (...
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How to prevent soft bodies entering other soft bodies

I've created a soft body simulation but a lot of soft bodies enter other soft body objects. I've tried many suggestions and options but can't avoid this behavior. Any advice please? https://drive....
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Can the soft body LENGTH option be animated?

According to the manual and this video one can use the length option to shrink or expand a soft body: Length option: Soft body physics > Edges > Length Youtube movie:https://www.youtube.com/...
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How can I make objects float inside a softbody?

Basically, I have a translucent slime softbody character. I would like to have small meshes floating inside said translucent slime softbody character. How can I accomplish this?
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How Can I Make a Tube Deform with a Wrapped Rope using Softbody and Cloth Simulation?

I am trying to achieve an effect that I can wrap a rope around a tube to deform it. I got the rope done with a Softbody simulation and some hooks to animate it, but it seems to be that the Cloth ...
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Driving an Objects animation from a Physics Simulation on another Object

I am a Blender beginner but very familiar with 3d workflow with a background in After Effects. I have a very high poly/face count mesh Ball that I am trying to animate using simple physics simulation ...
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How do I make a mesh deform only due to collision and not movement?

I have a complex mesh, and my goal is to have certain parts of the mesh deform while the rest stay rigid, and I need those deformations to happen only on collision with another object. I'm currently ...
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How to make my icosphere inflate in a heart shape?

I am trying to create a soft body/ cloth simulation where the eyeballs inflate and pop out of the eye socket and form into a heart shape. I tried quite some different approaches now but none worked ...
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Plastic deformation soft body / cloth pressure / dynamic paint / waves

I want to simulat the rolling of dough and achieve something like this: https://media.giphy.com/media/uq8Nqas3wsCITJ1MiD/giphy.gif I have tried soft body, cloth pressure, dynamic painting, waves but ...
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How can I move this soft body and empty to another project after baking?

Hello, I'm attempting to add this baked simulation to a moving car in another scene. I have it moving exactly how I want it to and now I'm just looking to parent to an object so I can move it to ...
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Rigid Body and Soft Body animation

I would like to create an animation like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1xkNMuvFmh/ I'm not being able to create this jiggly effect and also to interact rigid bodies with soft bodies/cloth. Can ...
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Can you do this level of simulation in Blender?

I've been trying to do some simulations on blender like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvxTvogNuGI/ Does anyone knows if it's possible on Blender or only on C4D? Thank you,
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HELP - How do you push / stretch a tessellated mesh like this medical video?

I'm trying to replicate a very cool detail I saw in a medical video, but I just can't figure out how it was done. I tried doing it with a cloth sim or soft body sim, but it just won't work properly. ...
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Simulation nodes softbody

I’m trying to do a softbody simulation in gemoetry nodes. Basically what I’m doing is calculating a “relative position” for each vertex by subtracting position from edge position (position evaluated ...
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How to make a rigid body and soft body object collide

I’m trying to make a ball which has the rigid body fall and crush a cube with the soft body. I’ve already tried giving the cube a rigid body along with the soft body but the ball just freezes after it ...
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Ball squeeze through pipes

I am trying to make simulation similar to this (around 5sec) https://www.pinterest.es/pin/573997915020314265/ and i have this issue that the ball wont come trough the pipe like on the picture. Any ...
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Mesh with soft-body physics not appearing in render?

I have a scene with multiple objects keyframed from rigid body sims, but since I can't keyframe soft body sims I don't know how to render it properly. In fact I don't know how to render it at all, the ...
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How can i make other parts of a model move during animation while the main body have physics?

Here is my situation: i have character that is a sphere (body) with another sphere inside (brain) and the surface of the body there are two discs (eyes) and another one (mouth). The rig start from the ...
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Best way to apply Soft Body to multiple floating meshes that are parented?

I have a mesh like the below and I'm wanting to apply soft body physics to it, but to have the parts remain 'connected' — I've tried vertex parenting, rigging etc. but none of it seems to work, I'm ...
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Soft body render heavily stutters regardless whether simulation has been baked

I have no idea as to why the soft body collision simulation keeps stuttering exclusively in render process. Regardless of whether I remove subdivision modifier, bake all dynamics or choose a different ...
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Soft body simulation going through mesh object with collision modifier on

I have an .obj that has a mesh cache and collisions modifier on it. however when I press play my soft body necklace falls right through the object. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated Link ...
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How do I make soft bodies bouncy?

I wanna make a soft body simulation where the soft bodies are bouncy so instead of hitting the floor and stopping, it will instead hit the floor and bounce up. I hope I explained good enough.
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Which physics to chose for character (NSFW content)?

Sorry for a naive question, but I'm a total newbie in blender and doing my first animation pipeline. The whole character body is single mesh about 35k+ faces. So which body physics is more preferable ...
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Physics simulation of object pressed against character’s skin

The character’s flesh is soft and the object pressed against it is rigid, so the skin should deform a bit and the mesh should wrap around the mesh of the object. I tried using soft body simulation and ...
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Attaching Beads to Softbody Necklace

I am designing a character for animation who is wearing a thread necklace with beads of varying sizes attached. The softbody object is a mesh that boxes the thread, which has a surface deform modifier ...
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How do I keep the shape resulted by the physics simulation

I am trying to simulate clay and found this answer: how to make a clay-like physic simulation?. The answer has a .blend file and I am trying to recreate it. In that .blend file a plane moves up-and-...
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Does Anyone know how to disperse the objects inside jelly cake like this?

I'm a beginner and I'm trying to make a jelly cake. But I am stuck in here. Here are my questions: I'm very confused about making the cake-filling part slightly visible. (I don't know how to name ...
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Wondering how to go about rigging my monarch caterpillar

I am guessing I want to use B-bones. So many resources, but couldn't find a good reference and this is my first rigging experience in Blender. Walk cycle: Supposedly caterpillars start with their guts(...
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How to make softbody interact with an animated rigid body

I am trying to make a scene where a softbody cube falls into a long spinning rectangular rigid mesh, but it turns out that both doesn't interact with each other as the cube just falls through and ...
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Move an animation once it's baked

I have a baked physics animated object which I'd like to move into a different position - this appears to be quite awkward (because the position of the object is of course baked) Is there an easy way ...
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Is my soft body mesh flawed for soft body physics?

I want the "Pachi Shell" to behave like a semi-rigid plushi. I've spent several hours tweaking stiffness, push/pull, self collision, etc, but I can't get the results I want before it the ...
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Softbody to only deform on collision?

I have a softbody which should bounce and deform when hit, so I give it some weight painting at the points which should deform the most. The problem is that, the softbody will deform a little ...
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Animated collision not colliding with soft body

I have a soft body object and a collision object, both are animated. When the collision object collides with the softbody during the animation, nothing happens. However, if I remove the animation from ...
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Expanding softbody not colliding with cage object

I was following this tutorial to create an expanding balloon in a 3D frame. However, with all the correct steps, the collision won't happen, even with the softbody solver step size set as 300. Can ...
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how to make cycle renders look more octane

I'm quite fascinated with the soft view in renders with octane all octane renders have a particular light and softness; somehow, I cannot reproduce that blender cycles. Any suggestions on how to make ...
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Objects not falling with Parent

I'm trying to make an object bounce. There are many parts that are parented to the large sphere that I applied soft body physics to. When I run the simulation, the children do not fall with the parent,...
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Softbody object 'melts' when it hits the ground

I was learning how to do softbody simulations but when I start a simulation, as soon as the sphere hits the ground, it 'melts'. I am using the default blender settings for softbody simulation, and I ...
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how can i get my soft body sim to look less cloth like?

so, this is a nutsack, and id like the nuts to not look like theyre empty and made of cloth, i'd like it to be much firmer and just jiggly, but nothing i do achieves that result. here is a video of ...
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Car simulation trouble

My car simulation doesn't work and I don't know what's wrong with her. All modifiers are assigned, maybe I made some mechanical error? Video The car is going to drive over the obstacle on the road. ...
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How do I keep my object from going through itself?

I am trying to create a mockup of a zine to place onto a website. It is made from a plane being folded to replicate a piece of paper. When I fold it the second time for some reason the backside keeps ...
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Softbody with rigid body activated won't interact with other rigid bodies

I am trying to do a "simple" thing which turns out quite frustrating. I want to attach a "rope" between two points and have that rope be a rigid body so it can knock stuff over. ...
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How can I tighten the straps on the soft body?

I'm a beginner who saw the following on Instagram. The comment says that they used the geometry node. There is a tutorial that wraps the strap around the cylinder, but I can't see it tightening while ...
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Permanent damage on soft bodies

I trie to make my cube crush into a softbody object so he left some visible damage on it. But when i use "plasticity" the damage outcome is based on the vertices that bounces back outsite ...
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Can items be stacked in one location for easier animation?

I am building a softbody Tetris animation and am manually placing the pieces above the container above each other, then animating them into position before they drop. Is it possible/reasonable to have ...
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Simple Softbody animation

I want to set up a simple scene so i can mess around with soft bodies, i make a floor, i make a "soft body" monkey that sticks to its position and a cube falling on top of it "rigid ...
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Vertex Weight modifiers to adjust softbody/cloth simulation?

I want to use vertex weight mix/edit modifiers to adjust weights of a complex mesh for a softbody/cloth simulation. I'm able to use the modifiers to successfully adjust the vertex weights, but it ...
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