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RBDLab
RBDLab for Blender is a specialized add-on designed to maximize the power of Blender’s Rigid Body physics system. “RBD” stands for Rigid Body Dynamics.
However, RBDLab is more than just a tool for cutting objects. It’s a comprehensive all-in-one suite that manages the entire fracturing process: from fracturing and setting physical properties to managing debris and creating secondary effects like dust, smoke, and debris.
Before RBDLab, Blender users often had to manually combine multiple tools: Cell Fracture for cutting, Rigid Body World for collision calculations, and the Particle System for creating dust. RBDLab integrates all these separate steps into a single, intuitive, and highly intelligent control panel. See more Flip Fluids for Blender
Features
- Misc:
- New full ui redesing.
- Custom Collections.
- Target Collection in a list, with icons for interact.
- Now you can easily add your own custom collection to work with RBDLab.
- Module Scatter:
- Texture Scatter now support Density mask that were painted with the paint tool.
- Boolean fracture some fixes.
- Module Fracture:
- Apply modifiers with high details, performance improvement.
- RBDLab calculates the neighbor of each chunk. This facilitates the computation of constraints and also allows to generate much more advanced particles.
- Module Constraints:
- Auto naming groups by type.
- Increased considerably the speed of constraint creation.
- Added the option to disable collisions in constraints.
- Module Activators:
- Set yours animation Activators interpolation.
- Module Bakes:
- Now can delete only the bake per type of particle in particle section or, delete only particles cache in all types in bake particles section.
- Module Particles:
- New system for detect boken and motions, more easy to use and more exact.
- Some fixes in filters mute/unmute.
- Module Collision:
- Use new motions, and new Through Offset method, more easy to use.
- Module Smoke:
- Some performance improvements.
- Module Tools:
- Clear new motions attributes
- Clear All Attrs clear neighbours
- Bake UVs
- Diverse Fracture Module System
- RBDLab offers a variety of object cutting algorithms, going beyond the traditional Voronoi method:
- Boolean Fracture: Allows the use of different shapes to cut objects, creating sharp, clean cracks suitable for metal or wood.
- Grease Pencil Fracture: This is an extremely interesting feature. You can directly draw crack lines onto the object’s surface using the Grease Pencil tool, and RBDLab will precisely cut along the lines you draw. This gives the Artist complete control over the position and shape of the crack.
- Material-based fracture: Automatically creates detailed inner faces with different materials (e.g., exterior paint, interior red brick).
- Physics & Constraints Management
- If you only cut the object, it will fall immediately when you press Play. To hold them together until impact occurs, we need “Constraints.” RBDLab boasts an advanced Glue management system. You can set the glue strength to determine how much force is needed for the wall to collapse. In particular, the “Acetone” feature allows you to trigger destruction at specific times or based on impact, allowing you to direct the scene as you wish.
- Side Effects: Debris, Dust, and Smoke
- This is the most appealing aspect of RBDLab for Blender.
- Debris: When large blocks collide or separate, RBDLab automatically generates tiny fragments at that location.
- Dust: The addon automatically creates a particle system simulating dust rising from cracks.
- Smoke: RBDLab integrates seamlessly with Mantaflow (Blender’s liquid/gas simulation system). It automatically sets the Domain and Flow based on the movement of debris, allowing you to create plumes of thick smoke and dust without complex manual setup.
System requirements RBDLab
- 64-bit dual-core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support
- 4 GB RAM
- 1280 × 768 screen
- Graphics card with 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3
- Blender version 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0
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