Well it inspired me to go and get a copy of Dynamica. Rigid body simulations in Maya are very poor I've always used nCloth or skipped Maya altogether and used Realflow.

Have not had a chance to really use DMM yet but as it comes out the box with a simulation limit I thought i'd give the bullet physics a go (Dynamica). Did this in a few minutes 500 separate objects simulated in real time, I was pretty impressed it's much better than trying to get anything usable out of maya's ridged body system and it's simple to use.

Here is a couple of test's note it's not meant to be AWESOME lol I just wanted to see what the performance was like with 500 separate bits of geo. Simulated in real-time for me so like i say quite impressed.

Dynamica Test 2 - YouTube

Dynamica Test 1 - YouTube

If you have not tried it you can grab it here https://bulletphysics.org/mediawiki-1...ynamica_Plugin