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Sherif.Nagib
02-03-2003, 02:49 PM
Hi all,
I'm in a big problem trying to make an animated scene of opening curtains..
knowing that I'm working on 3dmax5 equipped with Reactor,, I also have the simcloth plugin.

anyone ??

..An amateur in distress..

erilaz
02-03-2003, 10:34 PM
Try all the tutes in the reactor book first. That will help you to no end.:D

Quick tute (i'm limited to time [at work], so this may be hashed, sorry!):

Easiest way to do it is to grab a nice planey-plane with a reasonable amount of faces,whack a clothCollection on it, grab some rings (most likely torus primitive),add those rings to a rigidbody collection and attach every second or third vertex of the plane to the rings with attachTo rigidbody, then get those rings around another rigidbody cylinder.

I suggest heavily that you go through all the reactor manual tutes first.
Here's a quick diagram:

Sherif.Nagib
02-05-2003, 12:59 AM
I'm a newbie to Reactor (to max actually:rolleyes: ) , i didn't even know you could attach a vertex to a rigid body . i wanted a double sided curtain..but this will help alot.
Thank you very much erilaz .

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