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Please Help I'm going out of my mind!!!!
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20 Mar 2007ok i need some help everyone!
here is the delema Im trying to do a little animation with an i-pod and i want to get a well animated cord for the headphones and im struggling on how to do this.
what i have tried so far is the rope in max's reactor I have been using linkXform to keep the peices at the ears and in the ipod but im having trouble past that. since the rope can only have 2 ends being as its made from a line i have used a atachment constraint to get a dummy box at the end of the cord coming from the ipod and using linkXform fromthe cord between the to ear peices to hold it together this seems like alot of work to me but maybe not
let me know if that makes sense or not to you guys or if you have any other ideas this will realy help me out with this project
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20 Mar 2007NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!
Hahah...NEVER use linkedXForm for anything
To secure the ends of your rope, goto the modifier panel and click on the "+" side beside your reactorRope modifier. This will give you access to the rope spline-point sub-object. Select a point you want to secure (while in sub-object mode), then click on the button in the options that corresponds to what you want ("ie...attach to RigidBody") or whatever.
Hope that helps
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20 Mar 2007Im glad im not the only one going out of my mind.
(Sorry i cant help you else were, i just wanted the +1 postcount and to add my little comment 
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20 Mar 2007can you add more than 2 contact points to a reactor rope? (the 2 being each end)
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20 Mar 2007ok we are getting somewhere thankyou guys very much and aden for making me laugh haha
thanks T that helped alot i knew i was making things dificult but i have one more question and its the one that is really getting me
the thrid part of the cord! DON DON DON (dramatic music)
im not sure how to go about a third end of the cord or if ill have to make a second rope and attach them in the middle
or to make it into a spline with 3 ends but that is giving me trouble
if that makes sense please let me know what you think
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20 Mar 2007You'll definitely have to check your other options, because there's no way to simulate one rope with 3 ends.
Might I suggest something like this (ie...using 3 ropes)?
.......................... ____________O
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O---------------O
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.........................\______________O
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