> ncloth is your baby wow radical thinking - maya as a plugin to softimage?
as for an obvious, out of the (XSI) box solution, why yes: RBD’s are your friend! I’ve done chains – 30 or so, each made out of about a hundred RBD elements, I think each a ball and socket joint or whatever it was. suspending them, dropping them, lowering onto a floor, raising them again - worked a charm. And simulation times were reasonable. There was some trickyness, plotting the animation, slightly editing some of it and doing some cleanup where the collisions were a bit jittery – but overall I was pleasantly surprised at how well they worked for this. From: Ben Beckett Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:57 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Hanging basket ncloth is your baby On 27 June 2014 20:57, Byron Nash <byronn...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there an obvious out of the box solution for simulating a basket or other rigid object being held by multiple ropes/chains? It's definitely beyond the rope sim since the rigid object has mass and is affected by gravity. Probably don't have time to R&D a complex ICE solution from scratch.
