nShatter.com recently released ruins 2.0, an undated version of a pretty cool CUDA realtime shatter plugin for maya. Ruins uses accelerated cards to to generate shatters and effects in real time. Ruins 2.0 reduce memory problems, supports precision shatter or random shatter with each other. Ruins 2.0 also has greatly improved speed performance as well has having the debris look more natural. Check out the video of the speed of a 10000 triangle Shatter – pretty cool.
