Dynamic Rope Bridge - Maya

This is my dynamic bridge I made in Maya. It is animated dynamically with no key frames. The video describes it, please keep in mind this is really a proof of concept and I do realize that it has it's issues. However that being said any constructive criticism is welcome.

Please feel free to check out my blog page, http://russelllabs.blogspot.com/ where I document my process for creating my dynamic asset and any constructive criticism is also welcome there!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maya
• Bridge
• Suspension
• Dynamic
• Earl
• James
• Russell
• Earl Russell
• Earl J. Russell
• Earl James Russell
• Technical Artist
• Technical
• Artist
• Film
• Animation
• Autodesk Maya

[contemperis]

you can add clusters too the end points of the bridge and parent the last bone to those however i have noticed the upstands will follow the dynamic movement. im going through this myself to make cables for a robotic welding arm for my final at uni. ill repost if i find out the solution if you like?

[ProceduralAbberation]

@contemperis Yes any time I learn something new is a great moment! The way I see it sharing is caring and I will be sharing as much as possible. I'd like to see what you come up with! I actually gave up on this project for now because I'm redoing it in Houdini but I may revisit it for my fellow Maya users! Thanks for the comment! :)

[contemperis]

@ProceduralAbberation hey man, I gave up on the wires as I couldn't get them to work properly with the rig so I just rigged the welding arm up and i'm just using that but ill be pushing this at a later date in an attempt to refine this and see what I can get out of dynamics within rigs. but ill do a few tests and see what's what :)