Dynamically suspending a chain in Maya 2017

[@陈晨-l2y]

Hi Mike，I am a Chinese college student，because of your tutorial, I think I spent 90 yuan to buy a VPN account is very worth,you know, China's Great Wall firewall ...Thank you very much!

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you

[@darksteelyurius]

My god this tutorial is amazing. I have been stuck on how to properly add in gravity to a chain for some time and randomly stumbled across the video. Thank you for the upload!

[@mr.shgamingguy]

8:42 Moving The Chain 10:30 Lighting the room?

[@can_of_kungfu9387]

i just want to say thank you, im doing game design and i tell you what, these videos have saved my ass...i had no clue how to use this program but you have made it sooo much easier. thank you man

[@MHTutorials3D]

You are very welcome !

[@shashij85]

Hello Mike. I am shashi from India. I am learning maya though out from your video . I like your work so much

[@yaroslavb.2589]

Nice tutorial. I have a question, how to attach such a body to an object with animation?

[@VaelekCorvo]

Love your videos! I have a request. One thing I have often struggled with is wrapping something. For example, wrapping twine around an irregular object such as a hatchet head or just making it so that any 2 objects are bound. I've found some tricks that help slightly, but always require a lot of manual vertex tweaking. I would love if you were to do a video on that subject.

[@VaelekCorvo]

I just want to add that I believe my best results with the least work so far have involved extruding along paths. But my problem there is usually that if the object being wrapped isn't circular, but more flattened, the rotation eventually becomes off and no amount of tweaking seems to be able to correct it in a way that looks good. Another aspect of this is if the cordage is wrapped many times and overlaps itself, how to get a nice tight wrap with minimal intersecting or gaps.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Have you seen my "make live" video ? That is the solution

[@VaelekCorvo]

I have seen that video. It was helpful but very short. That has been my best result but keeping the rotation correct so that a flat cord lays against the object correctly is where I always get stuck. If I remember correctly, rotating a point on the curve did not have any effect on the extruded mesh.

[@VaelekCorvo]

So I took a different approach. Rather than using a semi-flat style of cordage, I went with a twisted rope. That pretty much takes care of the rotation issues. The only downside there is that after doing about 1/3 of the desired length on just one section, I'm still at 2.3k faces after a 90% reduction, and using only 3 strands. I'll keep poking at it.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Smart

[@sunerishah6086]

i tried the same but my chain broke & intersected . what should i do??

[@gamexplay1993]

after adding the gravity and playing it.. how can i stop the connection of the gravity and the polygon now?.. sorry im new in maya and im modelling just for still images..

[@ethan-thangtran4220]

Hi Mike, Can you show me how to open Visor in 2017? Thank you.

[@johngrey5806]

This video could've easily started at 9 minutes. If you don't care about how to model the room and chain links, skip the first 9 minutes.

[@calitoke]

Hi mike, I would like to ask you if you can do a tutorial on the rigging of police handcuffs on a character.Thank you

[@dennissabrievski4543]

Cuv Kuatrox it’s not that hard dude

[@notyeonnii]

got an off topic question... it may be a stupid question but... can you put models you sold on your demo reel? I haven't sold anything yet just working on demo reel pieces. also... how do you film your work? I want to put rigging into my reel but I don't know how to film x.x

[@GeorgieDoDa]

Probably uses something like Camtasia to record the screen.

[@MHTutorials3D]

I used to use Camtasia but I switched to Movavi

[@shashij85]

Can you make video on 3d integration with actul video . I want to learn that from you

[@anilciftlik2413]

hey Mike this realy good work . But ı have a promlem .this animation in rendering the keyshot Possible to do it in ? Normal setkey animation export keyshot okay . but vfx animation ?

[@MHTutorials3D]

After the simulation is completed delete the history. Then you can export it out of Maya and into Keyshot

[@devjitpaul1191]

my maya crashes everytime i do this, adding rigidbody and gravity and playing just freezes maya, laptop config: 6700hq, 16gb gddr3, 960m i am planning to build a desktop with 8700k, Nvidia P2000 GPU, and 2 ultrawides, i need your suggestions sir

[@MHTutorials3D]

Make sure the CPU is very strong as that does the heavy lifting. As for RAM, 16 is ok but try to puch to 32 or even 64 if you can. And then the video card..... Well, you know that needs to be good.

[@amonochromaticpanda]

Hi Mike, thanks for all your tutorials! I am new to Maya and already I am progressing really well for a beginner! My question is: Can I use this tutorial to simulate a keychain? I have been modeling a keyblade from Kingdom hearts and wanted to add some gravity to the chain at the end but wasn't sure if this tutorial is suitable or not, many thanks!

[@MHTutorials3D]

Sure

[@SenseiEzra]

hi mike i know you did this years ago, but i hope you can help, i followed your directions perfectly but my chain just falls to the floor

[@MHTutorials3D]

Make sure that both the chain and the hook is selected when defining active and passive rigid bodies

[@SenseiEzra]

@@MHTutorials3D Thanks for the reply, i think my main issue is that my computer is too slow, i have built my model now placing the links manually, They don't have to move, they are for aesthetics for in the game. i tried doing it on the completed model and Maya just took a fit and closed. even if i try it how you demonstrated it takes a while for the chains to drop. thanks anyway

[@demihan14]

Super cool. Can I do the same thing on Maya 2013? or only on 2017?

[@MHTutorials3D]

You can do a lot in Maya 2013, most of this actually

[@nerdatheart2699]

Hi Mike. I find your tutorials very helpful and amazing. I was wondering whether you can do something on how to make a good/realistic African hair in maya and render in Arnold or V-Ray. I noticed most of the tutorials on hair that are available don't have anything about African hair. I guess it's because people of African descent are under represented in most Animation/CGI product. I have a project coming up in the next few months that require a lot of African characters with different hair style eg Afro pops, dread locks etc. I would really appreciate if you can show me how to achieve this in Maya. Thanks

[@MHTutorials3D]

Hi Nerdathearts, How realistic should the hair be ? Like XGen realistic or modeled Polygon realistic ?

[@abhinayg9114]

How can I add wind for chain flow

[@MHTutorials3D]

Check my FX videos on wind, rain, lightning etc

[@FirstSalome00]

Hi! Your tutorials are amazingly helpful! so thank you for making them :) I have a request.. if this is possible. I have a rig that I already started animating and I downloaded a model of a necklace to use over my rig... NO IDEA how to attach this necklace onto her (the necklace is not rigged or animated) ... Hope this makes sense. In my scene Im trying to have my rig play with her necklace so I need this necklace to lay naturally over her neck... I cant seem to find a tutorial on this ANYWHERE!! okay, thank you :)

[@MHTutorials3D]

Check this out, it is the same principle kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ2Ui5ewg5Z_m5I

[@FirstSalome00]

Thanks Mike! You da best :)

[@FirstSalome00]

Mike, Im having issues creating ncloth with my pearl necklace. It slows down my computer. I keep having to restart maya all over again.

[@vakapallisantoshkumar7948]

im searching for the real dynamics(fluids, and particals) in maya 2017 can you do it as a tut..

[@MHTutorials3D]

I have done tutorial on that, it is still there

[@MHTutorials3D]

I have done tutorials on that, check my playlists

[@ezekiel2128]

It's so low and crashing with multiples links... Bullet is maybe a better idea with more than 5 links...

[@gerardvanommenkloeke9464]

The hard part is dealing with performance and collision management which there seems to be issues with in this tutorial. :-/

[@MHTutorials3D]

Gerard, this was done on an old and slow system and it was definitely struggling

[@BrunoTicianelli]

My chain keep faling from his support

[@MHTutorials3D]

Did you create a passive collider ?

[@shouryasingh1198]

sir plz make a guardian tutorial in maya :)

[@MHTutorials3D]

A what ?

[@shouryasingh1198]

+Mike Hermes lol Android keyboard sucks auto correct it's a garden

[@MHTutorials3D]

Aha, a garden, ok. I will see what I can do

[@shouryasingh1198]

+Mike Hermes ooh thank you so much sir