How do model a knot for my martial artists belt ?

[andy gee]

Hi everybody

i was wondering does anybody know how to model a knot ?

i am in the process of modelling a nmartial arts character and im on his belt

but i have no idea how to model a realistic look bow or knot on his belt.

If anybody has any tutorials, any sort of plugins or anything help at all then

that would be great.

thanks

Andy Gee

[ScottSullivan]

I know it's not (knot?) the cleanest way, but you could always start with the belt modeled flat, add a chain of bones and then tie the knot using bone deformations.

Or splines/2-point-poly in the basic shape, then rail extrude them, using the belt as shape.

I'll try and get a pic posted of what I mean.

Scott

[ScottSullivan]

Here's what I just tried using splines. Worked fine. Keep in mind this was a quick and dirty 5 minute sample. If you spend more time on the polygon shape in step 2, and texturing, it would look better.

[colkai]

If you have RopeEditor, it was just made for this sort of thing. Or C_Worm from Pictrix. :)

[Celshader]

Yet another option is to model the belt laid out flat, with enough segements so that it can bend nicely. Then use C_Bend (http://www.pictrix.jp/lw/Cbend/index.html) from Pictrix to bend it into the shape of a background spline that's tied in a knot.

I once modeled a ship's rigging with C_Bend. I had a straight length of rope, and C_Bend let me easily tie copies of that straight rope into knots.

[ScottSullivan]

Forgot about C_Bend. Awesome. Thanks!

[ercaxus]

Hairblade plugin is cool but it's PC only.