Maya Monday - Dynamic Rope Rig using nHair

[@SharpWind]

Hey Daryl, even though this video is now 5 years old, i gotta say that I like the way you explain things I'm working on my diploma assignment at the moment and out of all the videos I could have found, I'm glad i've found yours. You make the subject sound interesting and engaging, and you pretty much explain every step on the way, really making this a comfortable experience. Needless to say, I've saved this video and from now on it's my "go to" video whenever i need to refresh my memory on rope mechanics or strings and what not. I hope to see more videos from you :)

[@HBMHD]

"J" key to snap rotation... You have no idea how much I appreciate that tip alone!

[@maximgehricke3768]

Hey Daryl, these Maya Monday videos are an incredible treasure, you manage to bundle so many little tips and tricks into them, which makes them incredibly useful. I wish you could make more such tutorials. Happy new year! Cheers :)

[@darylobert]

Ground plane is done with a circular ramp mapped to transparency and its set to be single sided so it on shows up when you are above it.

[@TISTIES86]

You, are very artistic Mr.Daryl, wish you every good and the guidance to the righteous path!

[@austinbroder662]

Really appreciate all of your tutorials. So precise, cool, and informative. Always brightens my day when I see a new one up. Keep em coming! -A

[@yoskiytip]

Amazing! Never getting tired of these ones :)

[@darylobert]

+Roman Zhuk (RJ) thanks man

[@TheLineCutter]

Love your high poly count objects there. Made me think of the movie Brave. I understood the hair stuff and animation well. And felt proud that I kept up with what you said. But I bet you can do much more complicated things than you showed here.

[@junojan8414]

Sir, you are a great teacher. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@darylobert]

+Zlai zee Thank you!

[@sadiqkittani3817]

WOW, just WOW. that was fantastic. It is really helpful I will apply that and show it you. thank you very much Daryl for this greatest video. Cheers :)

[@xThirdOpsx]

Really thank you for those high quality tutorials man :)

[@darylobert]

+Thiird happy to help

[@morin6661]

Thanks for the puting this tutorial. I am looking for same thing and but I have to wrap around a cloth around the stick

[@TheIcemanModdeler]

Awesome ndinamics tutorial Daryl, thanks.

[@darylobert]

+TheIcemanModdeler Cool, thanks Icaman

[@hamiltonafjr]

Maya has a fine dynamics system!

[@the7thproduction]

How do you have your scene set up to look like that? What are you using for a ground plane?

[@quackcharge]

pretty sure its called xray shading or sth similar look in the renderer tab next to panels

[@3xchris]

This is fantastic! Would love to see a video of an nDyanmics simulation with the objects being weighted to joints for baking after, I can't seem to figure out a good way to constrain the simulation to joints to bring it into a game engine afterwards, the constraint never seems to stick!

[@ondudengrund]

As always, very nice and helpfull video !

[@aedrah]

That was really cool, thanks Daryl

[@joaoalexdias]

Thanks for the tut, I'm trying to build a punch bag hooked by a cable using the nhair dynamic on an keyframed animated scene, and the simulation won't start. I tried on a new scene and works fine, what could be the issue, can help me on this? Thanks!

[@pieratesofcarribean]

Thank you for this tutorial, but i just wanted to know, how you get this type of high quality viewport, is this because of graphic cards or their is some magic behind this??

[@Figster62]

How would you make it so the bucket drives the animation? Example, bucket sitting on the side, gets pushed off, and it falls pulling the rope.

[@lexiecool360]

Nice job daryl, my question is, what if i wanna create water underneath and make a collision between the bucket and the water, is it bifrost? (ocean,pond) or dynamics?

[@alrensantoine3601]

Great tutorial, but I've been struggling with something for a few days. Long story short, I want to parent my dynamic rig to the surface I constrained it to, or to the object that the surface is constrained to. But every time I move the parent object which in my case, a catapult, the rope animation translates wrong and the dynamic animation breaks. I can find no answers on Autodesk, thanks in advance.

[@polygon4399]

You should do a tutorial on drapping wires/ ropes over objects in a scene. with the dynamic hair system of course.

[@naaffax6700]

Wonderful tutorial! Thank u

[@sixxmahmud9837]

hello daryl how i set up a proper enviroment to look a pixar movie in maya like

[@mishominas]

Hi all, i have a small problem useing maya hair i have created my model and all looks fine but when i want to scale my character down everything the hair gets messed up and doesn't scale right with the character does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix it

[@maximgehricke3768]

This is SO awesome!!!

[@IsThisSomeoneElse]

I've just cried making my point to surface work. I've just cried to a may tutorial! what the hell

[@maxfartuhov]

amazing. thanks a lot. you've mentioned that there are tons of ways of making this effect. could you give some hints briefly if it is not possible to send me to some tuts in the net?

[@therobin9810]

oh my, that is one beutiful looking well! god damn! :O really nice tutorial with nHair too! im just more interested in how you got thr well to look so good, is it all because of the textures? i cant imagine you having many polys since the viewport is rebdered/calculated so fast in realtime... :)

[@darylobert]

+therobin9810 Nothing fancy www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-water-stone-cover/821838

[@therobin9810]

+daryl obert Thanks man! you're the best! :)

[@xale3dartist587]

nice video

[@maryhill2469]

I have finally conquered this, yay! Can you animate this with key frames in Maya, how do you play it and export please.

[@alekseyponomarenko9711]

thanks, how i can create some sand in maya?

[@darylobert]

I would look on turbosquid and start with some good texture maps

[@Javafunn]

dude please tell me how to add interactive playback button?? thk

[@darylobert]

It is under the menu FX >Fields/Solvers drop down

[@zandibrowne]

Great!

[@polygon4399]

pretty sweet

[@Elliottebbs]

awesome :)

[@Tritoon710]

Thanks :)

[@KENISEG]

this rope is more like a rubber band