Game Dev and Real-time

  A good destruction Fx for real-time can be done in multiple ways. So I decided to test some of those workflows and here I am sharing some of my learning from it. One such workflow is to simulate rigid body dynamics in Houdini and export the data for the game engine. Then we can use the data in engine for either gameplay and non-interactive elements or for cinematic purposes. Another way to do such effects involve real-time physical simulation on objects. This involves runtime calculations and is comparatively costly. So based on the specific requirement, we can choose either way to do it.    In this Part 1 of the blog, I will be sharing the baked data techniques where I have used Houdini and Unreal for this workflow but this can be done on any other game engine as well.   Rigid Body Destruction (Baked solution) (Rigid Body Destruction in Unreal) The above effect is done using a combination of both baked and real-time elements. The baked data are for the rigid body ...