I am wondering if there is a way to perhaps use a gravity space warp in Reactor (set to spherical instead of planar) Amazingly, there does not seem to be a way (that I can find) to Simulate Newtonian Planetary Physics with Reactor! Please prove me wrong! The Dynamics Utility that they say they only include for backwards compatibility can do it, but is very very slow even with the simplest of objects,…

Thank You in advance for any help!

Woody3D

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What are you trying to simulate? You might be able to fake it with pflow and the right setup. Reactor uses its own forces so you can’t set gravity to spherical.

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Hello, Well I see that reactor really cannot do simple orbits!!  I’m trying to simulate a Solar System (or Galaxy) with some accretion happening, even just planets colliding and stuff would be a start.  I want to get more power in creating 1)Photorealistic Space Art in general and 2) a couple specific visual effects for an animated film i’m working on (43mins Almost done! :~)

Let’s see I have taken a look at Pete Drapers Galaxy simulation tutorial from his book, it makes use of PFlow (that might be a possibility) I contacted him and he suggested Thinking Particles!  I will look into that, I guess it doesn’t really matter if the things on screen are ‘particles’ or ‘geometry’ as long as I can see them, bang them into each other and make them glow lol : )

The Dynamics Utility is So Much Fun.  So Easy To Use,.  Good Lord why didn’t Discreet give it a little speed boost.  It can do things that Reactor (with all it’s bells and whistles) quite simply cannot even approach.  Why can’t they add FORCES into the mix and allow Reactor to,..  um,,....

React!! lol

Thanks for your reply,

Woody3D

Try using a crowd system with a space warp behavior. It’s not physically accurate, but you can use a spherical gravity to alter the trajectory and speed of the delegates. Maybe this could be a work-around.

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