Animated curtain following a trail in 3D Max

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

I'm making an animation of a curtain following an irregular shaped trail.

A bit of research pointed out that the best approach would be to use cloth, attached to rigid bodies and moved with reactor.

I don't have any clue on how to implement this though, since I'm not familiar with reactor. I found this video already, which points out more or less what I want to do;

 

Can you help me out?

[radu_ax]

Hello,

 

If you haven't already solved the problem here is a link with a tutorial that explains what you want from making a curtain:

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7900/making-interior-scene

 

Hope it helps and you make good use of it.

 

Regards,

 

Radu Ax.

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

... Actually it wasn't solved yet, thanks for that valuable feedback!

[MrCAD]

did you try simcloth yet ? I guess it could solve your purpose

 

 

Meher

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

Actually creating a cloth and fixing it to some hooks isn't difficult with the built in cloth generator. Moving the hooks along a curved path and let the cloth act accordingly is already more difficult.

I tried with a path constraint but the problem is that I have to move each hook through a different path constraint controller on the motion panel if I understand right.

 

Is there a more straightforward way to attach the hooks (and the curtain) to a path?

Edited July 12, 2011 by Mazinger