Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Jason shows how the Material Point Method can simulate sand and simple granular materials in Bifrost. Part of a 10-lesson workshop for aspiring technical artists. Expand this description for download links and more.

00:00 - Intro
00:07 - MPM Sand
00:20 - Basic MPM sand graph
01:10 - Sand sources
01:30 - Sand settings
03:25 - Build and setup the colliders
11:25 - Bake the collider instances
12:10 - Start sim
12:30 - Optimising begins
14:25 - Output
15:00 - Zen garden exercise
16:00 - Graph setup
18:30 - Settings
19:20 - Rotation setup
20:45 - Colliders
21:10 - Settings
22:45 - Examples
23:40 - Extra settings

Download the scenes, compounds, slides, lesson plans and other files to follow along or adapt for your own curriculum: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/bifrost_bootcamp_lesson_7_files.zip