Bubble Pins shows how to control glue constraints for destruction sims in Houdini.

Constraints are essential for animation, along with some other things. With dynamic simulations, constraints help you guide the effects. Check out the latest tutorial from Bubble Pins that shows how you can control Glue Constraints to break a specific way and time in Side FX Houdini.

The tutorial covers how to use an animated force field geometry to produce a delay in the destruction of a fractured wall. “This is a technique I used to produce some variation in the scene of the destruction of a fractured wall structure,” bubble pins mentions. The resulting visual effect has a huge hole that gets blasted through the wall and slowly destroys the rest of the wall pieces as the force field grows in its animation.