Plasticity means that the joints' state is not reversible and the connected bodies take up a final position. The result is a very realistic behaviour in situations where you want to create cracking effects, for example a bullet that goes through a pane of glass.
Plasticity
With “Plasticity” you can make fragments stick together as if they were connected with a kind of underlying " tissue " or " grid", while other parts can still leave the assembly.
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