RooMan
05-22-2009, 04:07 PM
Dunno why this is so difficult for me but my tassle's a..um..hassle. (Sorry)
I'm trying to animate a grad cap tassle with cloth FX and everything is fine except for the "ball" above the tassle...you know, there's the main cord leading to the dangling ball-knot or decorative doodad such as the graduation year and then the many strands of the actual tassle. It's the ball knot-doodad that's making me crazy. Once cloth FX is applied, the knot collapses along with the rest of the cord and tassle strands like a deflated balloon. I've tried making the knot in another layer but then it falls away on it's own unattached to the rest of the cord and tassle model (and it does the same in the same layer unless I weld it to the cord.) Nothing I've tried is keeping the tassle intact with a normal knot. I even tried a seperate knot object and parenting it to the cord but knew how that would play out before I tried it. But hey...had to give it a shot, right?
I'd appreciate your help. I know it's probably incredibly simple thats right under my nose but it sure is eluding me! Thanks!
I'm trying to animate a grad cap tassle with cloth FX and everything is fine except for the "ball" above the tassle...you know, there's the main cord leading to the dangling ball-knot or decorative doodad such as the graduation year and then the many strands of the actual tassle. It's the ball knot-doodad that's making me crazy. Once cloth FX is applied, the knot collapses along with the rest of the cord and tassle strands like a deflated balloon. I've tried making the knot in another layer but then it falls away on it's own unattached to the rest of the cord and tassle model (and it does the same in the same layer unless I weld it to the cord.) Nothing I've tried is keeping the tassle intact with a normal knot. I even tried a seperate knot object and parenting it to the cord but knew how that would play out before I tried it. But hey...had to give it a shot, right?
I'd appreciate your help. I know it's probably incredibly simple thats right under my nose but it sure is eluding me! Thanks!