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Constrain spline lenght
Hi, I was wondering if there’s a way to constrain or limit the length of a spline connected to two object’s. Something like having an object fixed and the other hanging from the other point of the spline (like a rope)
So far, I’ve managed to connect the two objects by two of their points with a Tracer. However, if I add dynamic constrains to each other, as one of the objects falls the spline keeps stretching to infinite.
Thanks.
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I would use the spline dynamics tag which can be found in the hair tags. Then use a hair constraint tag to attach the spline to the top object and a little xpresso to attach the other object to the last point on the spline. You can also use the spline dynamics’ Mass parameter to assign a greater weight to the last point to create the illusion that the attached object has weight.
Here’s a basic example: 3730_dynamicspline.c4d.zip
You’d also want to control the bottom object’s rotation, which you can do via the point node’s normal out port, or by attaching another object further up the spline and using a target tag to point the bottom object at it.
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Hey Adam.That’s one cool idea. Totally different from the way I was trying to do it. Thanks for the example as well.
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Adam,
I was wondering if you can later add body dynamics to your example so the ball can crash against some cubes for example. Thanks
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You dould add a rigid body collider tag to the ball, so it would move the cubes, but it wouldn’t respond to them because it’s position is driven by the separate spline dynamics system.
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Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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Thank you very much that was the solution for me too!
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