howto create dangling rope between two points?

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Hi

I’m looking for some advice about how to create a dangling piece of wire between two points.

I’m trying to model quite a few telephone poles on a street with wires dangling across the street. I’ve got quite a few todo and don’t fancy doing them all by hand. Similar to to this reference

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/f1969ob/tele_wires_shoes.jpg

How should I approach this? Nulls and constarints? Scripting?

thanks in advance.

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you should take a look at these rigged vines from BBB.

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rigged_vine2.blend (325 KB)rigged_vine_jump_rope.blend (296 KB)

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oh lovely - thanks a lot

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there is a script where to place 2 vertex in 3D and it will put a hanging wire
etweeb the two check out the wiki script list
or handing rope or wire

but you still a need to set some rope textures

@ Teo-yoni

can you explain in the second file how you did
the set up for this
it’s definitively aninteresting technic

Thanks

Saluations

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RickyBlender

I don’t know, it’s not my work, i just took the scene from the Big B Bunny open project files.

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@rickyblender - can’t find the script you mention on the wiki http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog

don’t suppose you know the name of the script?

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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Manual/Add/Hang_Curve

Salutations

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softbodys? nurbs?

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this script is for unloaded chain wire rope

which is a a good approximation to the shape

i dont’ remember seing one for loaded rope chain or cable
but this requires a lot more math to do
and there are any parameters which must evaluated before doing it

in any case have fun with it

Salutations

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thanks again rickyblender - great stuff and fun to play with as well