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Overview of constraints

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Overview of constraints

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- [Narrator] Now we're going to take a look at Constraint Networks, which allow us to control whether an array of objects breaks apart with a little force or a lot of force. So I've got this simple simulation set up here and I'm going to play this back. You can see that these cubes are actually locked together, they're not actually breaking apart. And that's because there's a Constraint Network holding them together. If I change this Glued Strength on my Subnet here to 100, you can see that as we run the simulation they break apart. Because I'm controlling the strength of that Constraint Network. Alright so let's go into there and let's look at this Constraint Network, let's go to the moving object. And we have these eight boxes here, and if we think about it what's happening is that there's a center point being created at each of these boxes, and they're being kind of invisibly glued to the objects around them. And we can visualize that right here by looking at this Constraints null.…

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