Dice

As mentioned before with regard to the trouble I had with importing my existing models into my new scene I recreated my casino dice. This was pretty straight forward as I had created them once before it should be easy to do again right? Well perhaps. The model was easy to recreate, the problem came when I had to recreate the red perspex material that I created for my earlier model. I couldn’t quite remember how I had altered the refraction and reflection amounts and so spent a long time trying to get the dice to a similar standard of my previous model! 

Using reactor, in a similar way to the bowling scene I animated in a previous tutorial, I assigned different properties to the elements of the scene. The dice I gave a mass value of 10, the table top a value of 0 and I increased the friction values slightly due to the premise that the table top would be made of some kind of felt covering, and therefore would create a higher degree of friction than for example a polished surface.