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Title:	Time Scale
Category:	Workflow
Status:	Considered
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Posted By:	coilbook ( )
Date Created:	7 January 2016
Description:	Can we get time scale feature for slow motion effects like in RayFire. During simulation we can change 1 to 0.1 and get slow motion effect that is 10 times slower etc Thanks

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8 January 2016 #7448
EPHERE	I have been thinking about this one. So does it actually slow down the simulation or does it record the simulation and then slow down the result and interpolate it? Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
8 January 2016 #7450
coilbook	It actually slows down simulation in real time adding more frames when shattered/falling objects here are couple youtube links https://youtu.be/NKc7PLpeVAQ https://youtu.be/yJTYnSnM71Y
8 January 2016 #7451
coilbook	Can we also get a feature where objects can be animated during simulation. like we need a paintball to fly and hit the wall. But when we animate a flying ball then make that sphere behave like liquid, our animation gets ignored and ball just falls down. I think massfx supports initial aniamtion down by animators and then adds simulated animation to it.
8 January 2016 #7454
michaelwbell	It would be awesome to retime the Lucid objects if that is possible! Especially since Lucid is a unified solver with Softbodies, rigidbodies, fluids, etc all interacting! Coilbook has given two links. The top one is showing the Rayfire Timescale property - this is where Rayfire is slowing down time Realtime - while the simulation is running. This is a great effect but it makes it hard to iterate and the results are permanent. The second video is showing the RF Cache tool, where the simulation result is being slowed down and frames interpolated. With Lucid we can get similar results to video #2 (for dynamic objects only, don't see this working with fluids?) using the Alembic Playback graph (Max 2016). With the paintball splashing into the wall. Lucid can support initial animation, as seen in this video: https://youtu.be/7y7OJ3Lh0ac?t=3m4s If it's not working using only a fluid sphere (the paintball), One method to achieve this could be: -have a rigid body sphere which is animated into the wall. This Rigid sphere is a collision object with its normals facing inwards. -Use the time range feature to turn off the sphere a few frames before it impacts the wall. -Now position a lucid fluid sphere inside the rigid body sphere. It will be encased by the collision sphere and then the moment the collision sphere is removed from the sim, the fluid will inherit the motion of it, and collide with the wall. Michael Wentworth-Bell -- Test system for Lucid: i7-4790k GTX 780 6GB 32GB Ram Windows 7 Pro 3ds Max 2016 EXT2 -- Portfolio - http://thelode.com.au Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DigitalLode
8 January 2016 #7456
coilbook	Thank you!
11 January 2016 #7466
coilbook	Seems like if I use time range per object where start frame is other than 0 nothing works. So when I tried flying sphere and its last frame is 10 (I animated it) I go to sphere's time range set it to 10 -100, enable preserve initial velocity and it jsut stops at 10 and simulation does not continue. Or just a stationary sphere in the air. If I set start time to 1 or above it does not fall Thank you