Is there an easy way to manipulate wire?

#1

Is there an easy way to manipulate wire, wire setting when render a wire? Thickness of the wire?
I believe I have heard something about a script, is there in that case a internal script for it?

Thanks

#2

I feel this is not widely used, strange that…
How do you guys model a hockey-net, in a Hockey goal?

#3

Cheap method is a subsurfed plan with an alpha textured map of your wire, then you arrange it with cloth if you need.

Heavy method (high polycount) can be achieved with array and lattice modifiers:

[http://vimeo.com/1386631](http://vimeo.com/1386631)
[http://vimeo.com/1386667](http://vimeo.com/1386667)
[http://www.blendernewbies.com/tutorials/25/net_wrap/netwrap.html](http://www.blendernewbies.com/tutorials/25/net_wrap/netwrap.html)
[http://www.blendswap.com/3D-models/durian/fruit-basket/](http://www.blendswap.com/3D-models/durian/fruit-basket/)

About wires, you can’t manipulate thickness directly, but maybe with nodes and some tricks it would be possible… (I’m not a nodes-nerd :confused: )

#4

_Wuw the netwrap was a real good tutorial, thanks a bunch. :slight_smile:

#5

Nevroptere, I learned a great deal from that tutorial alone, really appreciate it again thanks. :slight_smile:

Here’s some simplified net made with array with cloth physics:

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