topic Is there an easy way to create hanging electrical wires? in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Is there an easy way to create hanging electrical wires?

heynewt — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:07:21 GMT

I'm doing environmental modeling, and I've got many electrical wires to reproduce between poles where the poles are at different distances. To maintain correct catenary curves you can't simply scale on one axis each cloned wire out to fit the new distance. Right now, I'm creating Mcloth cylinders between poles for each wire - it's accurate! - but that's taking forever.

I just thought I can't be the first person to encounter this issue of creating streets with electrical wires, but Googling it or forum searching isn't giving me many answers of people who have worked out a more automated approach.

Thanks to anyone who could offer advice.

Re: Is there an easy way to create hanging electrical wires?

wernienst — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:41:00 GMT

JokerMartini has a plugin for stuff like that.

https://jokermartini.com/

Re: Is there an easy way to create hanging electrical wires?

heynewt — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:25:29 GMT

Thanks for that link. That plugin looks very helpful to what I'm trying to achieve.

Also, lots of other helpful plugins!