This is one of the lovelier demonstrations of Second Life Havok 4 physics at its most, well, physical:
This mayhem is brought you to by a metaverse developer called Bytegang, helmed by the aptly named Loki Dancer. "We did the video just by the way, when cleaning up a simulator after a finished project," Loki tells me. The 'prim explosions' we caused by the physics engine of Second Life. I selected the whole sections of the build, unlinked them and set all the primitives to be physical. The results were rather amusing."
I'd love to see more full-fledged machinima using this effect -- imagine what you could do merging the footage to some well-placed sound effects and visual flourishes in post-production. Bonus: Shoot the physics footage in KirstenLee's dynamic shadow-enabled viewer.
New Citizens, Inc and Dreams speed builds often end in a similar manner. The prims are also set to temporary as well as physical. Of course, the sound track is whatever happens to be playing on the media stream at the moment.
Posted by: Corcosman Voom | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Cooooool.
Posted by: Mitch Wagner | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Yes its fun to do this to tall skyscrapers
Posted by: Metacam Oh | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I was able to witness a similar sim demolition not too long ago. It's on the YouTubes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUu-BRVgRN4&feature=related
Lordfly did the blowing, Crap did the filming and I did the random flying about...
Posted by: Veeyawn Spoonhammer | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 04:53 PM
eh hem...Lordfly did the blowing UP...
Here's part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjEtl0p31o
Posted by: Veeyawn Spoonhammer | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
I did something like this with my friends in March this year, when we were closing a project. We put scripts in all buildings in the sim, that (on specified time) would unlink all the prims, make them physical and temporary, and apply a little impulse to them (for better explosions :D). A lot of people came to watch and it was quite laggy - so when the explosions started, avatars were thrown up in the air :D Here's a link to the movie:
http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2009/03/goodbye-polish-republic.html
(it starts with some memories of the project - the explosions begin at 2:45) :)
Posted by: Ayumi Cassini | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 08:47 AM
Anyone can come blow up a 1,100 prim castle and win the Ghost of Castle Blue game at Phaze Demesnes. Info and video at http://secondlife.mitsi.com
Posted by: Ferd Frederix | Monday, December 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM