Unreal Engine 5.3 - Introduction To Chaos Destruction & Caching

Topic: Unreal Engine 5 - Introduction To Chaos Destruction & Caching

In this video we take a look at a quick introduction on how to start using Chaos Destruction in Unreal Engine. This video will cover how to pre-fracture and destroy static meshes and adjust their damage thresholds. In addition to that we will also take a look at how to Cache and Playback Chaos Destruction either by using a Time Based Playback, Triggered Playback, or Keyframed Playback using Chaos Destruction within the Sequencer.

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And if your interested in Chaos Physics in Unreal check out this video on Chaos Softbodys Physics.

[LesDeuxS]

If your looking for how to implement this in a Blueprint and not just a in a level. Complete this Tutorial and just add a GeometryCollision (instead of a static mesh) on the Blueprint actor. And add the correspoding Rest Collecting in the Details.

[Resuarus]

This was a great and fairly comprehensive tutorial/overview. Much better than the others I just watched. I'm excited to do things with the cached simulations.

[AuntJemimaGames]

Excited for procedural processing of geometry collections on their roadmap! It seemed crazy to me that you could potentially have hundreds or thousands of individual/modular components but have to set up and fracture each implemented object individually by hand in editor. Chaos destruction had additional issues when I tried it, and the combination of that and the lack of procedural creation of assets seemed largely prohibitive at the time.

Having more interoperability and options for conversion between chaos meshes and geometry script meshes/operations would be huge too!
Can't wait to see what we can do with these tools in the future.

[osmol]

Thank you for amazing UE videos! Keep up the good work

[gaetanlancelle]

good video!
Are you going to make one to actually destroy with a building like we see in the beginning?
I'd love to see how to combine that with particles too, to have some kind of smoke or whatever

[josephsnyder]

is there a way to control the chaos/breaking a bit more? An example I was thinking is that my sword shouldnt smash a masonry wall, however explosives or siege equipment should.

[benblaumentalism]

Thank you for the great video. I have a question that you might be able to answer. I don't want to trigger a prerecorded cache. I just want to trigger the destruction when I need it to happen. I actually do want and need for it to be different every time in my case. The descructibe mesh is inside of a Blueprint actor in my scene, which has the mesh component and some other things. How to I call the destruction if I don't want to use a recorded cache? Is there a node that I can configure and fire at will?

Thanks very much!

[jamaalsineke]

Thank you for this awesome tutorial. If I fracture an item in chaos how would I bake the individual pieces as static meshes and put them together in an Actor BP?I ask because I want to hide pieces of my meshon impact and spawn a niagra particle at the impact point. Im really new to Unreal so maybe you covered this in this tut and it just went over my head

[joaulooo]

Nice video! It is a good overview on Chaos destruction and cache, but how can I use it in practice? Let's say I want to create props to destroy for a mobile game, it would be great to be able to use the cache to lighten the system instead of launching the physics simulation with each destruction.
After creating an object, fracturing it and doing cache animation, I tried to create a new map, added a Cache Player, added a couple of the same Geometry Collection used to simulate and record the cache, added ojects to Observed in Cache Player but I can't activate them with a trigger.
So, after recording the simulation in cache, how can I use it effectively on objects spawned in a different map?

[oliverbrown]

how do i do 2 objects colliding with both exploding? so like 2 objects collide but instead of one getting destroyed and 1 being fine they both get destroyed? also how could i do vfx spawning on the destroyed debri? should i just create a sequence and have a niagra effect spawn and hand place it over debri or is there an easier way?

[AadilDar]

Hey, I am new to unreal engine. Can we get the realistic rigid body destruction simulations with Unreal, like other softwares like maya, houdini, c4d. I am planning to use it for filmmaking. I haven't seen any tutorial or video which has robust workflow for these destruction simulations.
Even the unreal engine showcase video doesn't feel like the softwares can achieve. So should i spend time learning this chaos system or use my older setups for these types of simulations? Thank You.

[dvspriest]

Hey when I put the chaos cache manager into the sequencer and run the playback; the destruction has turned 90 degs.
Now if I try to turn the direction of the destroyed parts, it also changes the direction of the parent.

[dimaferox]

Thanks for the tutorial, does the Chaos destruction work on mobile, and Android devices?

[Storykilladude]

Have a problem with rendering the cache.
As soon as I hit render local, it forgets all of the cache.
Think it might be a bug, but I am figuring to see if its user deficiency. :(

[nikhilsolanki]

What if I have some animation suppose I have dinasour ' run and I want to do this chaos destruction So its process will be different or it will be the same.

[champer]

For some rason I only have 1 material assigned to the fractured object...I can't find a solution, do you have any idea what could've gone wrong?

[kickheavy]

Does Chaos work with pathtracer? When I switch to pathtracer, my chaos collection disappears and doesn't show anything. When I switch back to Lumen, it shows up again.

[sinanisler]

can chaos flesh can interact with other chaos flesh hmmm
trying this but failed to do it...

[rodolfoaraujovanucchi]

Doesn't working here. When i put the anchor field, the object stops to simulate fisics