Tutorial 8 - Havok's - Reactor

Further Animation Techniques - An Introduction to Havok's Reactor

Basically this is an alternative way to animate objects. 3Ds max has Havok's Reactor inbuilt that allows the user another way to animate objects.

Here simply a shelf was made from a box and two spheres were added to the scene.

By selecting the rigid body collection in the Reactor control panel, then selecting the items that you wanted to animate (i.e. the spheres), then adding alternate masses to the objects, which determines the rate that the spheres drop and selecting the items as concave mesh, the end result is the objects falling down onto the shelf and rolling off all in one smooth animated move once the animation is applied.


Screenshot of Animation attempt:




Video of Animation: