Animating a Chain in 3ds Max

In this demonstration Hristo Velev takes you through creating an animated chain inside 3ds Max. Everything from modeling the chain, skin wrapping it to a control object, and using cloth to simulate the dynamics are covered.

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Anonymous

oh god ...

November 6, 2009 - 12:46pm

Glacierise

For the path deform to pick a spline, it needs to be a spline, no matter what is under the modifier. Make sure you have the spline visible and selectable, it's gonna pick it.

October 16, 2009 - 7:28am

xseson23

Thanks for your reply, it working, but the problem is now when i,m adding the path deform binding at the end and press pick path than is not picking anything, I think it cuz the Ctrl_chain_animation is already convert it to editable mesh.

October 16, 2009 - 6:36am

Glacierise

Make sure your welder modifier is set to 'vertices' and your shell modifier is set to inner .2 and outer .2 like in the video. If the problem persists, you can post up a scene for me to check out.

October 16, 2009 - 6:13am

xseson23

I,m having a problem with shell plugin. when I adding shell on the welder, than i,m seeing the plane like wireframe and even when i,m rendering it but when i shutdown the shell it get back to normal, am I doing something wrong? please help

October 16, 2009 - 5:00am

Skeet12

I did find out that the problem was in the Welder setting. I had the welder applied, but the toggle was set to "normal face" rather than "
vertices". Once I changed this then it worked fine. Thanks for the input.

October 15, 2009 - 2:12pm

Glacierise

I think your problem could that you've missed adding the 'welder' modifier in the control object, or some cloth setting. Check out for the welder modifier, and assign the 'default' preset to your control object in the cloth properties, and see if it resolves the problem.

October 15, 2009 - 2:09am

Skeet12

Okay. Here is the url to photobucket with the image loaded. Hope this works. http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss94/MR_SRS/Chain.jpg

October 14, 2009 - 3:22pm

Riki

You could upload pics to a site like photobucket and paste the url.

Sounds like you didn't bind the verts correctly before hitting simulate.

October 14, 2009 - 11:50am

Skeet12

I've gone through the tutorial twice, but all my chain does when I simulate is fall (like a melting animation). It doesn't swing. Can you provide any help on this? Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I have a snapshot picture of what is happening, but don't know how to send it to you. Can I upload the picture anywhere?

Thanks!

October 14, 2009 - 11:43am

iplay

Having problems

All i get is server not found rtmpe://eat3d.com//freestreaming
Using Fire Fox on 64bit xppro

October 12, 2009 - 12:30pm

Riki

Thats great, hope you enjoyed it