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Shatter and Destruction Plug-in

Fast, reliable, and intuitive, Pulldownit for Maya is the shatter and destruction plug-in that has been used in many productions all around the world.

Pulldownit is a dynamics plugin intended for destruction effects as well as massive rigid bodies simulations. By using it, digital artists are able to shatter objects in different styles, create surface cracks and simulate easily the fracture of 3D models. The power of Pulldownit solver allows computing thousands of objects in dynamics in a stable and realistic way.

What’s new in 5.8

Pulldownit 5.8 (already available for Maya 2025) includes instanced shapes supported in the core solver allowing to create hundreds of instanced rigid bodies in a few seconds and a 20% faster simulation with instances, along with several fixes.

What’s new in v5.7

Shatter New Features

Shatter it support instanced shapes, instanced shapes are supported and can be shattered and reshattered seamlessly.
New Jagginess mode “Asymmetric tessellation”, this new tessellation mode gets near 50% less polys than the uniform one with a similar look of rough faces.

Dynamics New Features

New Fast Stacking & Deactivation solver, scenes involving hundreds or thousands of fragments in dynamics now computes up to 4 times faster, besides this new solver highly reduces drift motion of fragments resting in the ground.
Instanced shapes supported as rigid bodies, PDI solver now supports instanced shapes in dynamics, allowing to compute massive simulation of thousands of objects with less memory overhead.
Improved performance in fracture against animated bodies, animated or deforming objects now computes faster when colliding and breaking other objects, besides user can easily control the strength of the impact with the new anim speed multiplier parameter.

UI Enhancements

New parameter Anim Speed Multiplier, allowing to easily control the strength of the impact between animated objects and dynamic ones.
New ability to animate cracker multiplier, user can now modify the strength of the crack effect during the simulation or disable it completely at desired frame.
New Fracture setup option “One per Shatter Group”, allowing to create several fracture bodies at once from the current selection of objects.
New option “Add Jagginess to All fragments”, allowing to add jagginess to all PDI fragments in scene with one click.
New “Fast Stacking” simulation option, user can revert to classic, more accurate, but slower stacking solver by disabling this option.
New ability to auto assign unique names to duplicated nodes, when selecting nodes to create rigid bodies from them PDI will rename any duplicated node automatically if authorized by user.
Animatable fracture parameters are auto displayed for current selected object.
New ability to create hierarchies of rigid bodies just selecting its parent group.
New UI option “set all dynamic values to default” for rigid bodies.

Pulldownit for Maya Features

Shatter It!, Voronoi-based pre-cutting

Shatter It is a pre-cutting tool, it is able to generate jaggy fragments, much more realistic than classic polygonal fragments. It is Voronoi-based because this scheme has shown to be the best mathematical pattern for brittle fracture. Its technology allows to pre-cut a 3D model in hundred of shards in seconds, in addition, the fragments generated plug easily in the Pulldownit solver to perform simulation in a fast and stable way.

More about Shatter It!

The current pre-cutting tools in most 3D platforms consist basically in clipping planes and fill holes modifiers; this could be enough for modeling purposes, but definitively quite poor for dynamics where you would like to pre-fracture an object in hundreds of shards to obtain believable results when simulating. Shatter It!, the new pre-cutting tool by Thinkinetic, is designed thinking in dynamics needs; it is Voronoi-based because this scheme has shown to be the best mathematical pattern for brittle fracture, its workflow is surprisingly easy, just select a polygonal object from the viewport, input the desired number of fragments and hit Shatter It! button, concavity or holes are not an issue anymore; Its technology is able to pre-fracture a high-resolution model with fine detail in seconds.

In addition, UV mapping is also supported. Shatter It! introduces different cutting styles, Uniform, Local, Path-based, Radial, and Wood Splinters. Radial style generates a perfect pattern for breaking-glass-like effects, Path-based style allows for the creation of long dynamics cracks, and Local style for creating localized damage on corners and surfaces, besides, you can combine all of them at your pleasure by continue cutting the generated shards until achieving the desired look.

New Jagginess deformer allows modifying the surface of the fragments, converting flat geometry into rough faces and twisted edges, getting a high-realistic look for stucco, stone, or concrete materials. Use the Shatter It! tool independently of the rest of the plug-in. Otherwise, its major advantages come when simulating the prefractured object with the Pulldownit solver. For example, the shards created plug easily in dynamics. Also knowing the Voronoi scheme generates mostly convex shards. Pdi takes advantage of this fact to speed up the computation of fracture.

Built-in Dynamics & Fracture Solver

The technology of fracture inside Pulldownit is absolutely new and groundbreaking. It allows fracturing of any kind of brittle material like stone, glass, or stucco. By using it, digital artists are able to simulate the collapse of structures or terrain cracking in minutes. Easy setup and powerful stress tools allow for complete control in the creation of cracks. These, in effect, drive the simulation to the desired end.

More about the dynamics and fracture solver

The rigid body solver inside Pulldownit is designed to handle massive simulations, that means thousands of objects in contact. Speed is the first requirement for such a goal; we have improved over the fastest methods in the literature for both mesh and convex detection, Pulldownit computes in real time for scenes made up to 100 objects and take only minutes to simulate thousands of contacts. In addition Pdi! counts with group tools allowing to set up and manage large scenes. Pulldownit solver makes possible to crack dynamically any kind of brittle material as stone, glass or stucco. The set up is very easy, use Shatter it! tool to prefracture your object or just build a structure by blocks or pieces of any shape,select all of them as a fracture object and hit play, this procedure also makes the setting of texture coordinates easier.

Once in simulation Pulldownit will compute all the stress forces that create cracks and finally makes the objects collapse. Fracture objects can be static as a building or dynamic as a meteor, you can create as many fracture objects as you want, and make them impact each other. Control is always an issue in dynamics simulation, in this sense the powerful stress tools of Pulldownit allow to define the start of the cracks and the way of propagation just by setting fracture frames,in which the crack will begin, and visually select regions of the object with different hardness.

Pulldownit for Maya is Animators friendly

Integrated into Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, Pulldownit for Maya catches the geometry from the viewports and computes the final result as animation keys. It allows resetting the simulation, then starts it again as many as needed. In addition, it allows the tweaking parameters and resumes simulation at any frame. Animated objects and characters interact with the simulated ones!

Our aim is to fit in the animator’s workflow never the opposite. Pulldownit takes the geometry from the viewports “as is”. Special care has been taken with parenting relationships, mesh modifiers, and pivot offsets as we know they all are frequent sources of problems. The natural unpredictability of dynamics simulation makes it necessary to play with the parameters back and forth until reaching the desired result, Pulldownit not only allows to reset the simulation and start again as many as needed but also pauses it at any frame, tweaking parameters and resume computing. Force fields as wind, turbulence, attractors, or custom fields supported. In fact, they interact with PDI objects seamlessly.

Pulldownit bakes the simulation as animation keys. Easily tweak or export the simulation later to other formats. Finally, as it is usual to have scenes in which animated characters interact with their environment in a physically believable way, Pulldownit allows dynamic response between keyframed objects or deform meshes and the simulated ones.

Maya 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019

Node-locked – for one machine only, although you can render the final animation in any machine or farm.

Floating license – can be used in any machine with as much as one user at the same time, you need and active internet connection while using the plugin.

Operating systems

Microsoft Windows 64 bits (win7, win 8, win 10).
Apple MAC OS X 10.11 or later

Update 5.8 14/4/2024

ENHANCEMENTS:

Instanced shapes supported in the core solver

FIXES:

* Fixed fragments detached from clusters bounce weirly in the ground
* Fixed delete all Pdi bodies may crash if disabled fracture bodies present in simulation
* Fixed Fbody clusterize 0 Colliding with ground grid traverses it sometimes
* Fixed Breakable at Frame clusters can cause the whole Fbody collapsing
* Fixed instanced rigid bodies doesnt trigger crack propagation
* Fixed Fbody colliding with animated character doesnt detect collision sometimes
* Fixed Fist hit Fbody colliding with animated character doenst adquire impact momemtum
* Fixed fragments colliding with convex ground traverses it little by little
* Fixed update transform for disabled Pdi body doesnt update Pdi Manage Window
* Fixed update transform for disabled Pdi Fbody doesnt enable Fbody
* Fixed cannot select shatter group in outliner when Fracture panel is visible
* Fixed after creating shatter group in Maya user can move the selected voronode away
* Fixed Fbody ghosting collision may happen with high speed animated bodies
* Fixed instanced bodies using mesh volume detect collision very slowly
* Fixed Kinematic Rigid bodies attached to non geometric nodes are set as “activate at first hit” by default
* Added warning when any rigid body is below the scene ground grid

Update 5.7 12/18/2023

Enhancements

New Fast Stacking & Deactivation solver up to 4x faster
Instances shapes supported for rigid bodies and Shatter it
New UI parameter “adquire anim velocity factor”
Improved performance in fracture againts animated bodies
New Fbody setup option “One per shatter group”
New Jagginess option “Add jagginess to All fragments”
New Jagginess mode “Assymetric tesselation” 50% less polys than Uniform mode
New ability to animate cracker multiplier or disable it at desired frame
New ability to auto assing unique names to duplicated nodes or instances
Animatable fracture parameters are auto displayed for current selected object.
New ability to create PDI rigid bodies from groups
New UI option “set all dyn values to default” for rigid bodies

FIXES:

Fixed rigid bodies colliding with animated objects sometimes go through ground grid
Fixed change name of fracture body doesnt skip already existing names
Fixed change name of cracker doesnt skip already existing names
Fixed Maya crash sometimes after open PDi scene , making scene->new and start creating pdi bodies
Fixed disabled fracture bodies are reseted when user reset the pdi scene
Fixed fragments colliding with ground has sometimes a weird drift motion
Fixed rbd “update transfom” doesnt activate the body if it has been removed from simulation
Fixed selected bodies in PDi Manage World Window doesnt select in viewport
Fixed playing back cached anim fbodies looks weird before they get broken
Fixed select fracture body in Fractures list doesnt select the fracture node
Added warning when setting rbd from object with more than 100k faces

Release 5.5 01/26/2023

ENHANCEMENTS:

Shatter it multithreaded( up to 8x faster with regards to v 5.0)
New ability to delete Shatter it centers directly in the viewport
Initial velocity and angular velocity can be added to “activation at frame” fracture bodies
Improved collisions between fracture bodies for a more intuitive behaviour
New ability to generate Bounded Cracks until desired frame only
New ability to set parameters for several Crackers at once
New ability to invert Crackers selection
New ability to Edit Name of selected Cracker
New ability to show/hide all Crackers paths at once
New ability to create Crackers for all selected curves at once
New ability to set parameters for several fractures at once
Maya cache playback supported right after baking PDI keys

FIXES:

* Fixed hi-poly models ackward flikering in viewport while being shattering
* Fixed uvs for multiple uvsets are messed up after shattering in some rare occasions
* Fixed Shatter it styles miss extent value when not using Draft mode
* Fixed Shatter it change shatter style in Draft mode ignores extent value
* Fixed Shatter it Wood Splinters center doesnt match object center in draft mode
* Fixed Shatter it “Width” parameter is ignored after changing shatter style
* Fixed Shatter locator generates points far away of the object sometimes
* Fixed rigid body parent rotate pivot is lost after saving the scene
* Fixed Crackers push the whole model when hitting unbreakable areas
* Fixed Crackers “Assign Path” button doesnt hilight when path is selected in Maya
* Fixed Crackers list cannot be expanded
* Fixed cannot create crackers from curves created with the pencil tool over live surface
* Fixed user can assing several Crackers to the same path
* Fixed Bounded Cracks causes instabilities in static fracture bodies sometimes
* Fixed Bounded Cracks causes other rigid body/fracture body collisions get bounded aswell
* Fixed Bounded Cracks fails sometimes for large thin models
* Fixed large fragments get detached unexpectedly sometimes
* Fixed excluded bodies in fracture creation are included in simulation
* Fixed “activate at frame” Fbody adquires incorrect velocity when was broken before activation
* Fixed small fragments can break fracture bodies in advance
* Fixed small fragments can activate fracture bodies in advance
* Fixed setting fracture Hardness around 0 doesnt break the fracture body completely
* Fixed parented curves miss it original parent when used for shattering an object
* Fixed Pdi cache is baked wrongly when playing back start at frame diferent than start time
* Fixed add jagginess creates weird long thin triangles for concave faces sometimes
* Fixed plugin crash after applying jagginess when original model has more than 8 uvsets
* Fixed remove jagginess after load mess up shaders for some faces
* Fixed remove jagginess duplicate uv set when original uv set name is diferent than “map1”
* Fixed delete crackers doesnt disable PDi cache
* Fixed change PDI bounding volume at frame diferent than 0 may cause initial position lost

Release 5.2 – 11/01/2022

This update features a number of fixes from previous version.

FIXES:

* Fixed fracture bodies made of non connected parts fails to break sometimes
* Fixed plugin crash when loading a new scene and a fracture body was saved broken
* Fixed “break at frame” clusters ignores propagation scheme
* Fixed app crash when loading a PDi scene after playing another PDi scene
* Fixed jaggy “broken only” doesnt match tesellation of adjacent faces sometimes
* Fixed reshatter animated fragments + assign rbds is not working as expected
* Fixed local style shatter center changes suddenly when in draft mode sometimes
* Fixed single fragments of “only break” fratures get freezed after resume simulation
* Fixed small parts of “only break” fratures are ignored sometimes
* Fixed cracker disabled state not recovered after loading the scene
* Fixed undo all shatter when fbody has baked keys prevent from using PDi solver afterwards
* Fixed fracture bodies of objects childs of a node with rot transform get spoiled after load
* Fixed “has open edges” warning prompt when reshatering an object
* Fixed large thin triangles still created in some cut faces after shattering
* Fixed faces materials are messed up after shattering when original node has degenerate faces
* Fixed jaggy faces materials are messed up when a PDI shard has degenerate faces
* Added a warning when shattering a model presenting reversed normals
* Fixed “Unbreakable until frame” cluster cannot exceed a frame 1000 value
* Fixed “setup fracture body” window get blocked when object name has no standard characters
* Fixed original object gets templated state when using undo after Shatter it preview mode
* Fixed when creating rbds and change bVolume pdi solver ignores them
* Fixed playing back PDi cache includes disabled rigid bodies
* Fixed changing seed of local shatter style left one center unaffected

Release 5.0 – 12/5/2021

Enhancements:

PDI Fractures solver 2x faster
PDI Fracture solver gets more debris in areas nearby impact objects
New bounded behaviour for crackers
New ability to reverse Cracker direction
New option to update Cracker Path when user changes reference curve
New Extent parameter for Shatter it tool
New ability to exclude part of the curve in Shatter it Draft Mode
Jagginess applies to broken fragments only
Load PDI scenes 2x faster
Create fracture cluster is now an almost instant operation
Stresses view “break at frame” clusters are now displayed in green color
New Add Particles option “visible faces only”

Fixes:

* Fixed force fields can break completely clusters regardless of its hardness
* Fixedt crackers trigger “activate at first hit” fbodies event
* Fixed huge slow down when cleaning PDI scenes before new scene/open scene
* Fixed disabled fracture body doesnt improve performance noticiably
* Fixed Maya slow down hugly when update stresses vertex colors
* Fixed change static fragments to dynamic left them at 0 hardness
* Fixed wrong warning message when creating fracture body with animated parent
* Fixed PDI cache not cleared when animating crackers speed along a curve
* Fixed air damping parameters are wrongly disabled for static fbodies
* Fixed shatter points cannot be completely squeezed over borders
* Fixed cannot bake dynamics when dragging pdi scenes into Maya
* Fixed cannot delete pdi bodies when dragging pdi scenes into Maya
* Fixed Add Particles Tool window causes huge slow down when changing selection

NOTE: Maya Cached Playback is supported only after baking keys and deleting all PDI rigid bodies

Update 4.8 29/01/2020

ENHANCEMENTS:

Shatter it 2x faster
Shatter “Undo last” 4x faster
Shatter preview mode 3x faster with hi-poly meshes
Apply Jagginess 5x faster in Maya
Modify Jagginess 3x faster in Maya
Soften jaggy edges 10x faster in Maya
Improved quality of jaggy tesselation

FIXES:

Fixed mesh-mesh collision get stucked sometimes
Fixed seed doesnt affect local shatter centers position
Fixed local shatter doesnt fit some points to surface of the model
Fixed convex hull construction fails for very thin objects
Fixed weird aligment of points of Path based shatter with thin objects
Fixed local shatter locator doesnt fit to selected fragment area
Fixed Undo Last shatter doesnt recover original node names
Fixed Pdi evaluator doenst work after loading Bifrost in Maya
Fixed some shatter faces missed in voronoi display wire
Fixed after shatter “undo last” large cut faces are splitted in triangles
Fixed huge viewport slow down when displaying stresses
Fixed selected fragments non highlighted when displaying stresses color( DirectX mode)
Fixed shatter group dissapears after reshattering when it is child of another Maya node
Fixed fragments of tesselated objects are detected wrongly by the plugin as open edges
Fixed rarely a few shards miss its UVS after shattering
Fixed Additional uvsets are distorted after applying jagginess
Fixed adding jaggines with voronoi node selected doest it wrong
Fixed remove jagginess after soften edges left soft edges on original shards
Fixed soften jaggy edges “broken only” affects non jaggy vertexes of neighboring fragments
Fixed hi-tesselated shards fails to match jaggy borders in some areas
Fixed large Jaggy borders almost not deform

NOTE: Maya 2019 and 2020 Cached Playback is supported only after baking keys and deleting all PDi rigid bodies

Update 4.7 14/10/2019

ENHANCEMENTS:

Secondary cracks are now per fragment
New transition animation-dynamics method for fracture bodies
Allow to recompute fragments with baked keys in dynamics
Can reshatter single fragments of baked fracture bodies to any extent
Baking of keys is a a background process
Shatter of combined meshes up to 8x faster
Shatter group is now hilighted before shatter “undo All”
Added new clear PDI cache UI button

FIXES:

Fixed application crash when kinematic-mesh animated bodies changes topology per frame
Fixed “unbreakable until frame” event doesnt work when some fragments are static
Fixed prop style change event not working sometimes
Fixed cluster break energy doesnt work when cluster hardness > 0
Fixed cluster break energy still acts after the cluster has been detached
Fixed “break at frame ” cluster get detached by force fields in advance
Fixed adquire shatter fails to transfer keys when target mesh has diferent topology than source
Fixed adquire shatter doesnt assign original node names to shape nodes
Fixed static non “first hit” fracture bodies start to break in advance if any other static object is in contact with it
Fixed “activation at frame” bodies miss it initial speed after resetting the scene
Fixed Manage PDi World Window not updated when deleting a rigid body in viewport
Fixed sleeping fracture bodies doesnt break when using clusters
Fixed break energy hardly affects large fragments
Fixed cannot undo shatter groups with fracture body signed
Fixed shatter “undo last” remove fragments with baked keys
Fixed reshatter already baked fragments delete animation keys for the whole shatter group
Fixed hidden fragments are wrongly included in fracture body creation
Fixed scene reset before saving it when no pdi objects in scene
Fixed cluster of “only breaks” fbodies doesnt break off
Fixed models made of diferent parts shatter always as detached meshes
Fixed local propagation dependance in fracture body mass
Fixed cannot add jagginess to recomputed fragments
Fixed jaggines applyed wrongly to old cut faces
Fixed animated nodes child of other animated one are set wrongly as first hit
Fixed shards childs of an animated node are wrongly set as dynamic rbds by default
Fixed wrongly assign rigid bodies to all childs in the hierarchy when parent selected
Fixed shatter cage not displayed correclty when using wood splinter pattern
Fixed mesh artifacts appearing sometimes when shattering combined meshes as a whole
Fixed resume simulation fails after scrubing the time line
Fixed static fracture bodies in contact breaks at the begining of simulation
Fixed convex hull includes far away points when mesh has only 3 vertices
Fixed convex hull of planar faces doenst collide from inside
Fixed last frame of simulation not cached for animated fractures
Fixed cache mode is deactived when user reach start frame but scrubbing time line
Fixed delete single cluster spoil clusterize state

Update 4.5 – 29/10/2018

Enhancements

A new tool for adding Particles to inner faces of shattered objects
Hi-poly animated meshes 3x times faster update in dynamics
New “Increase Selection” fragments button for easier cluster creation
Added ability to change propagation scheme at the desired frame
Fracture body Friction, Bounciness, Sec cracks, and damping are now animatable in Maya
Rigid body Friction, Bounciness and Mass params are now animatable in Maya
New option to show/hide all disabled rigid bodies in a scene
Added a hint warning when trying to shatter an object with open edges
Acquire shatter can transfer animation from a single shape node to multi-shape nodes
“Only Break” fracture bodies captures larger cracks and detachments

Fixes:

Fixed bake selected ignores single rigid bodies
Fixed bake selected fails when selecting nodes in the viewport
Fixed Jagginess 2.0 doesn’t preserve vertex colors
Fixed Maya viewport navigation slow down when many rigid bodies selected
Fixed update rigid body transform for multiple objects changes its creation settings
Fixed sec cracks value not saved with fracture defaults
Fixed advanced fractures current selection persist after deleting fracture body
Fixed Pdi Manage Window doesn’t update if still open after loading a new scene
Fixed Shatter Undo All make crash Maya when the selected node doesn’t belong to a shatter group
Fixed stresses view for animated fracture bodies shattered at frame different than 0 display at the wrong position
Fixed stresses view disappears when changing view context
Fixed vertex color shatter almost ignores small white areas
Fixed crackers can be shattered when selected along with an object
Fixed crackers can be set wrongly as rigid bodies
Fixed local shatter fits points to surface incorrectly in complex areas
Fixed convex hull volume crash sometimes for hi-poly models
Fixed can not create fracture bodies from nodes already initialized as rbds
Fixed ref shapes for shattering exceeding object shape generates much less shatter points than expected
Fixed transfer keys range set to the number of source keys in place of the time range
Fixed vertex color shatter fits points to convex hull in place of the original shape
Fixed shape based shatter fits incorrectly if the object has frozen transform
Fixed jaggy faces distortion because of displacing non-corner jaggy vertex
Fixed local jagginess now applies to unbroken faces of neighboring fragments
Fixed modify local jagginess doesn’t affect neighbors
Fixed delete local jagginess doesn’t affect neighbors
Fixed select non-solid objects wasn’t working correctly
Fixed after load scene delete all clusters left wrong stresses in some fragments
Fixed PDi wrong start frame warning when user changes time range

Known Issues:

When using Maya in Parallel mode, goal UV particles does it the wrong second and successive times you play the scene,
this is a Maya issue we cannot fix in our side, the workaround is revert to classic DG mode and caches the nParticles,
then you can set parallel mode safely.

New in Version 4.0

Enhancements:

Outline view of Shatterit fragments in the viewport
New shatter option for using a volume shape as the source
New Adquire Shatter style
Jagginess is now independent of mesh tessellation
New soften edges UI parameter for jagginess
Improved look of jaggines with soften edges
New option to apply jaggines to broken fragments only
Speed up Fractures solver 30% * 50% less memory needed for caching simulations
Clusterize parameter now depends on object hardness
New ability to pull apart pieces of an animated object in dynamics at the desired frame.
Default masses for rigid bodies adjusted to more comprehensible values
Improved performance of fragments selection in advanced fractures
cluster break energy is now independent of mass
First hit bodies which eventually doesn’t move are excluded from caching and baking
Added a bake selected option

Fixes:

Fixed secondary cracks dependance on object mass
Fixed shatter history points don’t match the object transform in the frame different than 0
Fixed shatter it generates the same pattern when shattering several objects at once
Fixed VP2 slow down when switching stresses colors for many fragments
Fixed delete fracture bodies are very slow when in VP2
Fixed delete fracture body with baked keys causes PDI solver to get blocked
Fixed PDI scene gets corrupt when the user changes Maya units
Fixed animated rotating bodies with pivot away from CM perform bad collisions
Fixed Maya crash when user duplicate a node with PDI body attached
Fixed incorrect drawing of Fracture bodies contour when faces has more than 32 vertexes
Fixed solver start frame value missed when loading a PDi scene
Fixed animated fracture bodies go haywire when scratching the slider
Fixed PDI solver gets blocked if users delete PDi keys using Maya commands
Fixed animated bodies fail to compute vertex velocities sometimes
Fixed capsule volume not displayed in VP2
Fixed shatter a non-animated parent node hide all its shields in the viewport
Fixed parented nodes are displayed incorrectly in stresses view using VP2
Fixed first hit fractures arent activated if impact body mass is less than its own mass
Fixed selected body isn’t displayed when going back to start frame

New in V3.8.8

Enhancements:

Available for Maya 2018
Viewport 2.0 fully supported in Maya 2018

Fixes:

Fixed breaks upon impact don’t behave correctly with impact massive objects
Fixed transition anim dynamics bodies don’t acquire momentum sometimes
Fixed initial spin dependence on body/fbody mass
Fixed switching a fractured body static ON/OFF makes it ignore its velocity parameters
Fixed switching a rigid body static ON/OFF in frame different than 0 reset its initial position
Fixed baking keys fails when cache mode is disabled and start frame different than 0
Fixed unbreakable activation at frame fractures moves in advance sometimes
Fixed Maya crash when trying to create a fractured body from jaggy fragments

Notes:

Viewport 2.0 is supported in Maya 2015, 2016, 2017, however, a few plugin operations perform faster using legacy viewport.

New in V3.8.6

Shatter Support for Vertex Colors.
New Vertex Colors Shatter Style.
Modify Jaggy Strength is now a fast operation.
All Basic Fracture params are now saved after deleting a fracture body, in this way you can reshatter an object and all your fracture params are restored after creating the fracture body again.
New “Set All Values to Default” Basic Fractures Option: Useful new option when you want to reset all values to solver defaults without having to delete the Fracture body.
See all bug fixes here.

New in v3.8:

This update counts with a bunch of fixes and enhancements, making the plugin more reliable and quick in production environments, surely users will appreciate the fast Undo Last Shatter operation or the outstanding Jaggy feature now preserving UVs of the original faces, and other useful improvements you can read below.

But this update is especially about Wood Splinters Shatter, we have developed a new scheme for it so now you get always long, thin splinters even when shattering areas, adding to this a stable dynamics for fracturing wooden objects and the Jaggy feature to apply roughness in the inner faces, you can get quite natural wood destruction effects very fast.

Version 3.8 Enhancements:

Available for 3d Max 2017 and Maya 2016 extension 2
New Wood Splinters Reshattering scheme
New “detect mesh groups” shatter option for shattering correctly combined meshes
Jagginess preserve UVs of original faces( single and multi uvs) PreserveUVs
Cut Material->new allows updating the material of current shatter group
The original object is auto selected after Shatter it->Undo All
AutoSelect the fractured body in the list corresponding to the currently selected fragment
Improved performance drawing of fragments in 3d Max
Shatter Undo Last is now a fast operation
Support VP 2.0 Core profile mode in Maya( rest of modes were already supported)
Support Maya 2016 Parallel mode
PDI keys use 30% less RAM in Maya getting the playback of massive rbd scenes faster.

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