It MIGHT be possible to do a similar thing for chains (I've been toying with the idea myself, but havn't got round to it yet..)
A thin strip of cloth (made totally transparent) + a set of chain links made "rigid decorated" set into it.

Would be rather poly-heavy, though.

Cheers,
Diolma
Edited to add: Trav: the problem with doing rope in the cloth room is that a tube (to carry the texture) collapses into something flat (like an empty fire-hose). I've tried it, and couldn't get it to work convincingly. Of course that may well be due to my own deficiencies.. Cheers, Diolma

Message edited on: 03/14/2006 15:49