Hi guys,

I wanted to do some soft body ripping effect and FEM seemed to be the best tool for the job. I'm having trouble holding the fractured pieces together until impact however, and it immediately breaks apart when gravity is active. Do I need a constraint to hold the pieces together like as one would with a typical RBD/Bullet set up and break them in a SOP solver?

I figured that the fracturethreshold attribute is the clue, but I tested with values as high as 20000000 and as low as 0.00000001 with no visual changes.

Thanks in advance!

Hi mountaingoat, fracture threshold worked for me. I was using values around 100. I set up my simulation using the “Fractured Solid Object” shelf tool. Maybe you're missing something if you didn't use the shelf tool?

Best,
Elizabeth