Virtools provides the amazing ability to endow your worlds with a reasonably good simulation of real world physics with the addition of a few building blocks. As we will see, this system becomes a bit of a black box, but I hope you’ll find that it works reasonably well in many circumstances. The Physicalize BB Let’s begin with the Virtools Getting Started Physics demo. C:\Program Files\Virtools\Virtools Dev 3.5\Documentation\Physics\Physics Database\GettingStarted.cmo.

To begin experimenting with physics, all you need to do is add the Physics -> Creation -> Physicalize BB to the two main elements in the scene. In this case the floor and the box. Be sure to set IC on anything you physicalize before playing the scene. Gravity One thing that happens automatically in with the Physics system is that you get Gravity. If you play the scene at this point, you’ll notice that everything that you physicalized falls out of the frame. This introduces us to the first major parameter in the Physics BB: “Fixed”

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