[Spencer Noble]

Thank you for this post Adam. I’ve spent the majority of today trying to create a scene in which a dynamics spline necklace with object cloned pearls on it is cut and the pearls come sliding off. Thank you for showing me that this is an impossible task in cinema 4d as there is no way to create a scenario in which my dynamic pearls can also interact with the spline dynamic string. I had found nothing on the subject save a lot of chain tutorials that loosely covered the subject I was getting at. I feel I have ample proof that I should just complete this feat in maya with hinge constraints or a wire deformer.

[Spencer Noble]

I tried switching it from 2D to 3D and back again with no change, but I managed to set an object as the pole vector by creating an IK tag for my joint and manually setting a goal instead of selecting all the joints and creating an IK chain.

Thanks for your help though.
A lot of your answers in these threads have helped me in the past

Cheers