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Animate a metal chain using nCloth - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Animate a metal chain using nCloth
- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at how to create a metal chain and animate it using nCloth. So, we're going to create a dynamic simulation of a metal chain. So, the first thing we need to do is actually model the chain, and that's actually a pretty simple task. So, I'm going to go into my top view, and let's go ahead and just create a simple torus. I'm going to go ahead and just drag this out. In fact, let's go into our poly torus inputs here, and I'm going to make my radius two, and my section radius, let's go ahead and make that just .5. So, now I've got this torus, and I'm going to go into Face mode by right clicking, and I'm going to select the right hand side of this, and then just do an extrude by hitting control E, or by going Edit Mesh, Extrude. And then as soon as I do that I'm going to go directly into my Move mode by hitting W, and then just pull that out so it looks somewhat like a link. So, now I have a single link of a chain. Go…
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Quick fluids using nCloth10m 31s
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Animate a metal chain using nCloth8m 6s
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Model a vehicle impact using nCloth8m 10s
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