{"id":290,"date":"2010-11-09T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-03-26T00:10:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:10:04","slug":"reactor-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/09\/reactor-tutorial.htm","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Reactor: Simulation of physical objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>REACTOR IS NOT INCLUDED IN RENCENT 3DS MAX VERSIONS ANYMORE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1092\" title=\"reactor-balls\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/reactor-balls.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/reactor-balls.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/reactor-balls-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever placed objects in\u00c2\u00a0quite casual in a scene? Coins on a table, marbles in a\u00c2\u00a0container, even the rocks along the beach&#8230; it&#8217;s a quite boring and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>In such cases we need physical simulatio and\u00c2\u00a0in 3ds Max there&#8217;s the powerful <strong>Reactor<\/strong>. I can not describe a single post but we can easly make some experiment \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The best thing is to see him in action! I&#8217;ll give you an idea of how quickly you set a scene with objects physical collision. I just created some inclined planes and maby, many balls. Just give the properly mass and morphology to every objedct and.. see the simulation working.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the final result you&#8217;ll achive :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34368239?color=ff9933\" height=\"337\" width=\"599\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start the videotutorial and see how to make this<strong> simulation with Reactor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is very simple:<br \/>\nJust put a couple of <strong>RB Collection<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in the scene, then involve the various items, get the &#8220;weights&#8221; and just run the simulation. Truly instant! Watch the video and then use the file to achieve the same result.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34368267?color=ff9933\" height=\"337\" width=\"599\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open\u00c2\u00a0<strong>balls-reactor-START.max<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Place RB Collections inthe scene<\/li>\n<li>Assign mass and morphology for every object<\/li>\n<li>Set simulation lenght<\/li>\n<li>For any doubts check\u00c2\u00a0<strong>balls-reactor-FINAL.max<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>File to download<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/files\/Premium\/reactor-balls-cgbpremium.zip\">reactor-balls-cgbpremium.zip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn a fast way to use physical simulation in 3ds max and placing your objects in the scene will be easy and funny. Reactor tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[26,39,56],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}