Rope Lashing Tips and use of AI

[SFN]

To avoid self intersecting ropes I broke the knot into two objects, an initial stage shrink-wrapped to the poles:

And a tightening stage shrink-wrapped to the initial stage:

Source: https://knotspedia.com/square-lashing-knot/

It works well because the actual knot doesn’t overlap with itself a great deal.

Hand modelling with curves is absolutely a viable, if time consuming, solution

[PeterBr (Pedro)]

Thank you. I imagine how that would work. Ill give it a shot.

[PeterBr (Pedro)]

Finally got around to it and thought id share the results of the two main lashings i needed: japanese and diagonal. They’re not exactly true to life (I would need to show the tied knot), but for my purposes they are more than enough.