topic Re: Creating a chain affected by physics - help required in Maya Modeling Forum

Creating a chain affected by physics - help required

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:06:47 GMT

Hello community,

I'm currently working on a little scene for my portfolio, and for that, I want to attach a chain between an object and a wall. now I know I can create a chain by stringing together some torus. but this creates a lot of geometry, my question is, is there another way to create the chain and let it be affected by gravity without having to create so much geometry?

what I have done is creating torus, shaping them like a chain part and string them together (like in the screenshot)
then I applied active rigid bodies and gravity to the chain and passive rigid bodies to the hooks. but calculating this takes forever. if anyone has a method how I could achieve this in an easier way, that would much be appreciated!

Re: Creating a chain affected by physics - help required

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:17:13 GMT

You can use this python script https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/create-dynamic-chain-from-curve-for-maya to create dynamic chain and here the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLizbaeZYw tutorial video. All credit goes to Valerio Di Napoli

Re: Creating a chain affected by physics - help required

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:56:26 GMT

oh my god, exactly what I am looking for! much appreciated!!

Re: Creating a chain affected by physics - help required

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:18:15 GMT

My pleasure!

Please mark this thread as solved.

Thank You!