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Help with animating only certain portion of an object

aaronkim9123
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Help with animating only certain portion of an object

aaronkim9123
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Explorer

Hi all. In the image below, I am animating a jet bridge. The portion outlined in red rotates in the direction of the red arrow. However, as you can see, there is a wire attached to the pillar and the jet bridge. I want to pin the wire's movement at the blue crosshair specifically as it rotates with the rest of the bridge, but I also want the wire to deform as it rotates along that pillar. The object in question will only rotate 180 degrees, and not 360 degrees. How can this be achieved

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leeminardi
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Use a SplineIK modifier for the wire.  The position of the spline's vertices can then be controlled by wire parameters or expression controllers.  What does the shape of the wire look like with the 180 degree rotation?  Is the wire long enough for that position without needing to be stretched?

Can you post a max file of the three objects?

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