ICE-Rope-Rig (with Dynamic Controler Count and nice Subdivis

[Loqy]

Hey,
here is a little Demo of a ICE-Rig for Ropes or some other thinn things.



Download:
Klick here

Things on my To-Do-List:

• Fix flipping Problems, when Rope goes nearly parrallel to the Y-Axis

Some things i have on my "Nice-To-have-List":

• Fix some Points so that the Rope doesnt slide always all along. (If you may want to have a Charakter hold the Rope in his hands)
• Add ThicknessControl via Null-Scale ?
• Add Roll/Twist-Control via Null-X-Rotation ?

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PS:
This time i managed to record my Voice with my Smartphone. Hope you understand enough and get along with all my spelling-, grammar-, word-invention- and content-Mistakes

[Hirazi Blue]

Impressive little tool.
Sound and language seem perfectly fine to me.
The video might however be a tad long... ;)

PS This is obviously more than just a "Rope Rig", it's a "Rope Maker"
(to belatedly argue some semantics here)

[SamHowell]

Wooooo

Thanks Vince.

[Loqy]

@Hirazi Blue
Thanks for your feedback.
I suppose you are right... next time i try to record shorter Video.
Maybe by thinking about, what to say before i start

[Kerro Perro]

Is this the flipping problem you mean? Or am i doing something wrong? It seems to worse when set to "fixed" spacing mode and on the "bottom null"...

Btw i don't think your video is too long at all, you just went through all the different features, very usefull!

Oh and thanks for this compound - i really like it

[Loqy]

Hmm... doesnt look that good.

Does it appear when your Rope is nearly parralel to any Axis (Y i think) ?
Or may it help if you rotate the Null by 180° ?

[Kerro Perro]

Hey sorry for the late reply, i've been trying to do too many things at once...

I played with it some more and the problem seems to basically always happens if i rotate the null in y, local or global or view etc, but is absolutely fine to rotate in z.

I can see that you in your video don't have that problem so i don't know what's going wrong

Here is my scene if you want to take a look at it:

RopeRig-Experiment.rar

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[HumDrumm]

Love the compound Vincent, really useful, thankyou for sharing it.

I do have issues with it though. It trys to connect all the nulls to form a loop or one end of the mesh jumps back to the origin where there is no Null.

altering the fixed number slider helps but there is still a twist usually.

I am wondering if this error on using the compound has anything to do with it ?

Could not find node : Incr_Counter
Could not set value on [Incr_Counter 66].Reference

It could be updated nodes since 2012 and 2013, my ice knowledge is limited.

[sant0s]

thanks for that great peace of compound!

very smart handling and easy to use.

already could use it in production.

thx