DorkmanScott

Thank you so much for taking the time to dig into the scene and for your patience explaining it and pointing out a few other resources. I still hadn't sorted it out and I didn't even know where to start, so this helped tremendously. Thanks again!

I'm working my way through the very basics to learn Houdini, and am having a bit of trouble with the column destruction simulation. Initially, I couldn't get the duplicated columns to recognize the ground plane, so even after I added the GP they would just fall right through. I downloaded the latest build and that seemed to solve that issue.

But now, when I proceed to the point of making the columns breakable and run the simulation, the columns seem to react to the ground plane and, starting at frame 3, all of them explode apart at their bases before the swinging sphere gets anywhere near them. I've gone through the tutorial over and over, even going so far as to delete everything but the column, and duplicate them out and run through all the steps again, making sure I don't miss a step or add an extra one, and no matter what I do it always does the same thing.

Help?