Dynamics with hair. -> Ball haning in rope?

[sagun-manandhar]

hi i have a sphere(rigid body)and applied gravity force.
how can i attach this sphere with hair so that the hair is simulated by the mass of sphere and sphere is also controlled by hair or hair length ; like you would expect to be natural when you hang something in rope ??

do i have to look of other ways like using cloth instead of hair or joint chains or particle springs? or it's possible with just hair ?

thanks

[sagun-manandhar]

No answers???

[ben-flax]

Hey there,
Many ways to do this. If you have maya 09 or later, ncloth allows you to do this kind of thing. Make a cylindrical n cloth, or model a rope, and make ncloth, then give it a higher shear and stretch resistance. Then transform constrain a few of the top vertices.Then make a polysphere, also ncloth it, make the rigidity super high, and add gravity to it. Select by component the bottom end of your rope and the sphere's components, then component to component constraint. it will fall constrained by the rope elasticity.

[sagun-manandhar]

that's very slow sim. any other ways ?

[doug-hines]

Take a look at the documentation on pin and nail constraints

[vikash-kumar--7]

I would use Ncloth and be done with it.  Dynamic hair is useful but very limited.  You could spend more time trying to make hair work  than it takes for ncloth to simulate.  Then you cache the ncloth and it plays real time.