Rough Weather - RIG.B FX Entry

Update 09/01/2023 

Created some small procedural ground rocks that are blown in the wind, colliding with the ground geometry and the robot

Mesh Prep - Reduced the polycount on the geometry for simulation using point deform

-Fixed the issue from before preventing the point deform from working correctly

FX Plan - Sketch

RIG.B Import and Prep
-Removed placeholder FX elements from provided animation in 3DSMax and exported as alembic
-Removed small detail meshes for collision mesh
-Generated temporary collision geometry and collision VDB + cache
-Created placeholder terrain/boundary + cache

-Need to figure out how to get rest pose for point deform, so I can remesh the geometry

Shield drones setup/testing 

The robot will deploy 3 small drones to create a shield to block itself from the incoming storm of rocks and debris. In this test, I had to figure out how to designate/split up 3 drones to the rocks that hit the shield collider geometry. I also have to figure out the order which the drones fly to the shield hit points and the flight path/curve which they will take.

At the moment I have:
-Collision detection using ray sop and using point intersection distance attribute as a life/age attribute
-Split up the incoming rock hitting the shield into 3 groups by using modulus of id attribute and number of drones (may require changes to more evenly distribute)
-Sorted point numbers using the distance/age attribute as the point number is used as the order for the curve
-Created curve based on points and tested carve sop for animation along curve