Simulating dynamic necklace with animated armature

[joseph]

There’s some ideas in this thread:

Thoughts on getting a Necklace simulation

I think what he means is he wants it to react physically to his animation via gravity, and not by keyframes. Sort of like an earring dangling from an ear, swaying as the head moves without actually animating it manually. For that, you’ll want to use rigid bodies. I’m not at home right now so I can’t create an example blend, but I achieved exactly what you’re talking about a while back-- by dissecting a similar post: If the above link does not help you, watch some tutorials on youtube or g…

Another option: use a cloth simulation, put a plane with quite a few subdivisions over the shoulders of your character, set the character to collision, set cloth on the plane, use a surface deform modifier or hook some parts of your chain to vertices on that plane, and make the plane invisible