burvis
05-21-2009, 02:19 PM
I need to make a long catheter (long flexible tube that fit's inside arteries and veins) follow along inside a vessel system. It starts at the jugular vein and goes down into and through the chambers / valves of the heart...
I've tried a simple tube clloision obeject, which seems like the best solution in terms of controling of the path of the advancing catheter and adding a 'cloth' dynamic to the catheter... this works pretty well but the geometry of the catheter immediately gets 'flat' is the collision contact begins...tried all possible settings to try and keep the object's round shape? This is like "almost there" but maybe I'm just a few tricks short of making it work???
I've tried with bones and IK and it just cant stay with all the turning (it needs to always stay inside the vessels and when it turns and goes back up through the heart... not so good...
Tried serpent displacement plug in, could not bring that together either
any help in resolving this delema... I would be forever greatfull
Chris
www.burningvisions.com
chris@burningvisions.com
I've tried a simple tube clloision obeject, which seems like the best solution in terms of controling of the path of the advancing catheter and adding a 'cloth' dynamic to the catheter... this works pretty well but the geometry of the catheter immediately gets 'flat' is the collision contact begins...tried all possible settings to try and keep the object's round shape? This is like "almost there" but maybe I'm just a few tricks short of making it work???
I've tried with bones and IK and it just cant stay with all the turning (it needs to always stay inside the vessels and when it turns and goes back up through the heart... not so good...
Tried serpent displacement plug in, could not bring that together either
any help in resolving this delema... I would be forever greatfull
Chris
www.burningvisions.com
chris@burningvisions.com