How Would You... Animate A Spinning Fez?

[crispyduck]

OK, so I'd like to animate a fez spinning - the only problem is that these hats have tassles on top (see here). The tassle would obviously need to spin with the hat but gain momentum and centrifugal force as the hat picks up speed. I've been playing with ncloth/soft bodies and have downloaded the ZVDynamics plugin , but I'm not getting it to work.

So - how would you do it? Help appreciated.

Al.

[gmask]

I don't know what that plugin does but I don't think you really need it to get this effect.

Basically you'd constrain the end of the string connected to the tassle to the fez and then make the fez a passive object and then tassle ncloth and let the simulation do the rest. But it will be slow if it's calculating the collisions of a bunch of strands in the tassle at once.

[crispyduck]

Thanks gmask. It's a simple method, but it's not working for me. Could be because this is the first time I've worked with dynamics and animation apart from doing an ncloth flag tutorial Either that or Maya is having a bad day. What constraints would you use on the string, and how would you set them up? Could you break it down a bit more for me?

[crispyduck]

Scratch that - Maya WAS having a bad day. Got it working now.