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2.6.3 Soft body
To make an object Soft Body, you will first have to enter the Object menu
(F7) or press the icon with the three-way arrows (the one in a row of 6
icons), which is the icon for the object menu. Then u will have to select the
Physics button which is the icon with the orange/yellow dots. When u
clicked these icons, a menu will show up with 4 fields.
These fields are Fields and Detection, Particles, Soft Body and Fluid
simulation. To enable Soft Body press the Soft Body button in the Soft
Body field.
Figure 2.6.3.1 Physics buttons
When the Soft Body button is clicked a menu appears with some parameters
for the Soft Body. The most important parameters are Friction, Mass, Grav
and Speed.
Adjusting the parameters gives different results regarding to how the object
behaves.
Figure 2.6.3.2 Soft body settings
• Friction: A generic force against movement that acts on all vertices. A
value of zero means no Friction.
• Mass: The mass of the body in kilograms. Will be shared equally among
all vertices. A higher mass will make the object harder to stop, and the
action of force fields will be smaller.
• Grav: The local gravity, it’s always pointing the negative z-axis.
• Speed: A tweak used while solving the movement. Don’t modify, unless
you have a good reason to do so.
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