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  • Dynamic cable in C4D for a guitar

    Posted by James on July 15, 2024 at 1:08 am

    Hi Dave, not sure if this is the right place to ask but I have an animated electric guitar in my c4d scene and I’d like to attach a dynamic cord / cable to it.

    Is there an easy way to do something like that?

    I’ve tried using a rope tag but I can’t get it to attach or interact with the floor properly.

    Any advice?

    Nice work with the new site btw, looks geat!

    Dave replied 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Dave

    Administrator
    July 15, 2024 at 1:49 am

    Hi James, great to hear you’re digging the new look site!

    You should be able to attach a dynamic cable pretty easy with the new cloth dynamics tools (I usually avoid the rope tag because it can be a pain to stop it twisty weirdly).

    If you make your cable a CYLINDER and wrap it along a spline with a SPLINE WRAP, you can use a cloth tag with SOFT BODY enabled so it keeps its shape (you might need to lower the bending too).

    Then because the cable has a CLOTH TAG you can use a dynamic CONNECTOR to connect it to your guitar – the guitar will need a cloth tag too so they can connect – if you don’t want the guitar to deform like cloth set the MIX ANIMATION to 100% so it keeps its shape.

    That’s the basics anyway, I think this one will make a good tutorial so I’ll try and put up a video soon.

    If you need a hand going through these steps just reply here or hit me up on the live chat.

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