Animating a WIRE between to animated points

#1

Whats the best way to animate a WIRE betweed to points?

Create 2 BOXES. Put them a little far from each other then create a spline between them.
NOW you want to animate these boxes at same time and you want the wire to behave as a chain linking a box to another.
How to make it work? :banghead:
The image below was created for a still but soon I’ll have to animate it.
Look at the character… whats the best way to animate this BLUE WIRE?
Thanks !

#2

I would constrain each of the spline’s end vertex points to a helper object and then animate the helper objects. Just make sure there’s enough vertex points between the two ends and that all vertices are set to smooth or bezier.

#3

Try using the hose primitive, from memory it works very well for exactly this purpose.

#4

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