Revisiting the Bowling Physics

A quick revisit on the Bowling Pin physics animation.

  • Originally my pins all fell over after a certain amount of time (no flat bottom!).
  • My ball didn’t have enough power to smash the pins (even with a big ramp!).
  • The slow motion physics was super cool though. I was really chuffed with end result.

I wanted to smash those pins!

So having learned a bit more from the Lamp animation I revisited my Bowling Pins to see if I could do it. I edited the pin model to have a flatter bottom, added new image based textures, sorted the physics, key framed the ball (no need for a ramp) and smash. It’s not 100% perfect still but I thought I’d share anyway.

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