Physics Concepts (New for 5)

IClone Physics is a system where objects inside a project are influenced by gravity and interaction with other objects. Inside, you can experience natural properties such as falling, bouncing, flapping and others. Any object assigned with physics properties also recognizes other objects with similar physics settings.

Once you play these physics, objects can automatically generate animations as soon as they interact with other physics objects. Now you do not need to manually produce animations by setting keys or puppeteering, which can sometimes be time-consuming and difficult to achieve a natural feel.

Physics Objects

Currently, the physics settings can only be applied to Props and Accessories. Once applied, the objects in these two categories will become Rigid Body or Soft Body.

Rigid body

Rigid body dynamics enable you to simulate objects with a high degree of realism such as fall, collide and bounce. All these movements are controlled by physics properties such as mass, elasticity, friction, damping, impulse, collisions, constraints and others. You may even add rigid body physics to any prop or character in order to add another dimension of interactivity between subjects.

Soft body

Soft body dynamics focus on realistic physical simulations that deform whole objects and singular planes such as clothes. Animations are now incredibly life-like as objects can accurately represent their elastic properties like rubber, squashed balls or jelly puddings. You may even simulate cloth effects, from a singular plane, with different material stiffness such as silk, linen or any other materials that will be affected by air resistance.

Optimization for Physics Simulation

In order to get the best results for physics animations, you may need to pay attention to the items listed below:

• Use a computer with strong processing power (better CPU and GPU chips).
• The shader option strongly affects the frame rate; when setting up physics objects or generating physics animations, it is highly suggested that you switch to the Quick Shader option when simulating physics.
• To simulate in Realtime or in By Frame modes:
  • : Enforces that you simulate in frame by frame. This ensures you will get precise simulating results. Switch to it for simulating soft body.
  • : Use simple simulations to ensure proper FPS (Some frames may be dropped). However, since frame-rate drops may occur, simulation results could be incorrect or not 100% precise.
  • Normally, the rendering export procedure is based on the By Frame mode in order to ensure that soft bodies have the most correctly simulated animations.
• Simulations always calculate physics objects animations according to their current transform (Rigid body and Soft body) or appearance (Soft body) status. Therefore you must consider if you wish to jump to any frame other than the start frame in order to simulate physics animations.
• Close the Timeline during simulation; the updating on the user interface slows down calculations, thus influencing the accuracy of simulations.