Nvidia Blast

Thanks!

 

Hey guys.
Amazing work. Why not to set up a public git hub repo for this for others to contribute. @OGUZCANSOYSELCUK would you do this since you from what i read here you made the latest changes?

If you all want i can set up a repo but then it would be the best if the latest changes would be posted here.
What do you think?

 

Was this ever something that was uploaded? I'm definitely interested.

 

I don't think it was, I recently updated this to most recent Blast version and it still works but I haven't checked the nvidia licensing for sharing the compiled binaries without a product so will not upload it myself into github etc.

 

Thanks for the great work @bocs , I've been trying to make use of this and the bit I'm struggling with now is creating an NVBlastFamily, i.e. setting up the connections between fractured pieces so that Blast is being used to break the objects apart in a realistic way. I tried initially creating a new C++ method to wrap `NvBlastExtAuthoringProcessFracture` which does the fracturing and also returns the bonds in an `AuthoringResult` so you can set up the runtime structure from that. So far it crashes setting up PhysX though, so I need to look a bit further.

It seems like the best thing though would be to make use of the serialisation functions to read in the files that NVidia's fracturing tool outputs. That seems to be the UE4 approach, where they have a lot more support.

Anyway, I was just wondering if you had gotten any further with this, or if anyone else had a working approach to build up the chunks and bonds for you need at runtime?

 

Great works guys. Just wondering, if this works in mobile device, I have tried but it is not working. Possible insights on how to make it works?

 

I can't get blast to compile. When I run the "generate_projects_vc15win64.bat" file the .sln project file does not appear within the compiler folder. Is this an issue you happened to figure out?

 

@OldLegWig I didn't have any issues afaik, it's been some time since I did it but I work with c++ projects all the time so I wouldn't even remember if I had to do some minor changes. You for example may need to change the project to build for DLL if the solution is setup for lib etc.

 

I was trying to get this working for Quest actually, but they don't supply binaries or a compile target for ARM and I couldn't get a compiled ARM version after a couple of days trying so I gave up for now. It should be possible, and I'll update if I get any further.

I forked the Blast repo with some added Unity bindings that allow you to read in a .tkAsset file from their authoring tool: https://github.com/joebain/Blast. You have to be a NVidia Gameworks Github member to view. (It's free to join here: https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworks-source-github)

 

There is some place with Blast documentation in unity?
The only thing found is the example sten of github and this discussion of the unity forum.

 

Would you like to send the Unity Package + C++ Sources to my gmail(zhanghaipengdd@gmail.com). The download is so poor。

 

that was an older version, the latest is still on the site...(however still old)
http://bocs.site/files/nvBlast_v0.3b.zip

 

Would you like to send the unity project to my gmail(zhanghaipengdd@gmail.com)，thank you very much!

 

ok we worked on this a little and merged this with nvidia example yesterday. so you can prefracture with @bocs tool and also you can generate your own cubes. we were implementing the use of prefractured objects with nvidia blast but we left the project because we realized prefractured solution is not best for us.

its not much but if you're interested you can generate your own cubes, maybe you can move on from there.
https://github.com/razzraziel/nvblast_razz

 

It seems that the webpage is offline in 2020, does anyone have an archive copy ?

 

try contact OP, he might still be active.

 

I'm guessing Nvidia Blast doesn't support multiple sub-mesh's. Has anyone found a way around this? [edit] I'm working on a script that edits the normals before it goes through Blast, to keep track of the submesh. Since the normals are retained completely I can set them to something outlandish like (-13,-13,1) so then I know that normal belongs to submesh 1 and so on.

 

Hey bocs, I took latest version of your wrapper and worked on it to make fracture system which is ready for production. I made a system which I called Unity Libre Fracture, it is completely free and open source. There is the link to that:
https://gitlab.com/dima13230/unity-libre-fracture

 

Best, most necessary and important, what need more than other, for realistic destruction:
Blast Stress Solver

 

I downloaded the mesh destruction project and there it was written in the requirements that for other platforms you need to go to this forum, in general I cannot use the destruction code on the android platform, but it works in the unit editor