I'll still share. People just irk me sometimes. Essentially its the abilities of the new IK. You can't really duplicate this in CS3 because there is no tracking or "sticking" of joints. But with CS4 all I had to do to animate the rope was move the root bone and because of IK and the new IK target the bones easily animated on there own. And set up the motion. Very smooth and easy. (see attached screenshot)

I'm currently working on simulating the pool of water effect on the maxon's dynamics website. As well as the string effect. I'll attach a screenshot of the string effect in the next post.

Soft body dynamics while it would be nice, as Chris said is very calculation intensive. Hard body dynamics, which Carrara has takes time to calculate, and many people complain, soft body would likely be twice as long. Keep in mind that you can use Poser 5 and the transposer importer included with CS4pro to simulate soft body dynamics.

Message edited on: 10/27/2004 00:45