I need Help with creating a thin rope or string

[natsheh]

Try using Maya Hair. U can model ur curves then transform them into Dynamic curves, the start tweaking, and put some constaints if necessary. Or u can use soft bodies, and see if you can tweak up ur particles and make them behave.

Good Luck

[LindzG]

Thanks for your advice

But can you please explain in detail how to do it?

[natsheh]

mmmmm .. .. . I don't have a precise idea on what's the animation ur ropes gonna go throgh. But anyway u can build your basic curves that forms the rope. Then Hair > Make selected curves Dynamic. Tell maya when to start simulating the hair from, You can put some constraints to have control on your hair behavior, they are under Hair > Create constraint, Play with them a little, they are pretty easy. Adjust the stiffness and Damp as required. Cache the hair, then you can turn them into paint effects strokes from Hair > Assign Paint effects brush to hair. Or extrude surface along the dynamic curve.

The other way is to create soft body after modeling the curve (or geometry), Soft/Rigid bodies > Create Soft Body; Duplicate make copy soft, Hide non-soft, make non-soft a goal, wight 1. Then tweak it's goalPP values through the component editor. and apply required fields.

Hope this may help you more.

[LindzG]

Thanks very very much! will give it a try!

[frothlord]

Check this out

Make Cable 1.0 (http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/dynamics/3835.html)

I'm not sure if it will work, but you might find some use out of it. And if you dont, its really fun to play with anyways! :bounce:

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