stretching a rope between 2 characters

[Iain McFadzen]

I downloaded the animation and I still don't have a clue what is going on or what you are trying to do. It's way too dark to see anything.

[Dave Black]

Looks like a job for dynamics.

Go get Simcloth.

Make Hulls.

Make a 3 sided cylinder, and attach the "Rope" at each end.

Hit the Run Simulation button, and should be cool.

For more about Dynamics, you can DL my video/html tutorial on the subject. It will be available soon.

If you have Max 5, use reactor's rope simulator.

-3DZ

:D

[sakuramboo]

id say use bones, apply an ik to them and have it pick a taget. the target will make it look like its hanging down, and the ik will make it look like its being pulled straight out.

[snot_nose]

3dzealot: hmm, simcloth might work there, but isn't it like applying flex?

sakuramboo: about the ik i don't know if that would work. what kind of IK would you apply to it, standard?!
i tried before that to use a control spline and to skin the rope to the control spline, but it didn't really work.

anyway what i did now was: making a key frame for the flex modifier that gives it a 0 value,
went to the bottom of the modifier and animated the strech by myself.
i've updated the scene so u can d/l again to see that if you want, now it is also brighter then before, but i still need to work on the lights, and other things (also the rope)/

i was thinking
all these plugins and other shortcuts that suppose to make out work easier and faster but the truth is that i spend most of my time trying to figure out all those technical things (something like 80% of it maybe), wich means it just make it slower, maybe that's because i'm still a beginner or maybe i should just ANIMATE and that's it.
like now i will learn simcloth, but after that something new will come out wich will suppose to be better and i will need to learn it again. instead of learning just to animate, i mean classical animators would make the rope stretch by themselves, don't they?
i don't know about simcloth but most of the plugins usually limit us and have lots of bugs.

so what do you think?

[snot_nose]

Hey,
i tried the simcloth 2.05 solution (wich contradicts everything i said on the last post :shrug: )
it worked fine, only that if i used it all over my scene, it CRASHED.
so i got simcloth 3 instead and it looks like it's missing some parameters (like the CANCEL button, attach, bond...)
so what does it mean? should i get a different version, or should i try a different method then simcloth?

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