Anchoring A Rope

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Hello,

I made a rope using the Hair system. I need to keep both ends attached to individual pieces of geometry. I can keep the CVs at the ends of the curve attached by creating a cluster, point constraining the cluster to a locator, and parenting the locator to the respective objects. The only problem is that when I extrude the curve, the resulting surface slides around instead of moving according to how the curve moves. I just can't figure this one out. Thanks in advance!

[duncanbrinsmead]

Make pointlock = base on the follicle, parenting the follicle to the surface at the base of the hair( unless it is already attached to the surface). Then create a transform constraint for the tip of the hair and parent the transform constraint to your second object. Don't do any other parenting or clustering. The output hair curve is downstream of the simulation and is computed in worldspace. Any subsequent cv clustering etc you do on it would be applied after the dynamics and thus cause double transformations and such.

Duncan

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Thanks Duncan!