I am looking for a script that would allow someone to place an empty somewhere, and then have another empty in a line from it, connected between the two is a cylinder that has many sections so it can deform like a rope.
This is for the webbing for spider man to swing on.
As you know (possibly), i am currentlyworking on a large-scale spider-man project, and animating the webbing by hand is killing me! anyone have a python script liek that hanging around, or have any idea how i can acheive this effect, or, willing to write me a python script?
This isn’t as good as a script, but u could just make the rope by bevOb a curve, convert to a mesh, beauty subdivide a few times, and add the build effect to it. Then animate the curve with armatures.
Would that speed things up?
It sounds like what you need is akin to a spring system arrangment. www.gamasutra.com has a good tutorial (in C) on implementing a simple spring system. It could easily be adapted to your purposes. This might be too slow in python however since it relies on a 3d distance equation (among other things) that involves square roots and what not. If it induces a prohibitive speed cost it’s simple enough to write a C module to do the distance calc in an attempt to speed things up, as a matter of fact I did just that a few months ago for a project that was pretty much what you need (unfinished though). If you want the C module I can send it too you.
…RipString wrote a script a while ago for this… it was called Tangix “Elastic Gravity Simulator” i don’t know where the original file is so i’ve put it on my site at http://www.krich.homeip.net/scripts/tangix.zip i hope this helps… also, i thought i’d toss this in JUST FOR YOU!
