Necklace On Character

[caracolina]

hello all.

i am writing today with regards to creating an animatable "pearl-type" necklace on a character's neck,
which should be able to sway back and forth/side to side -as the secondary animation of the character

ie. when the character runs...

i am wondering if anybody has a good, simple solution for setup of a necklace,

as i have attempted with each pearl parented to a joint chain, which was articulated by a spline ik...

is there a better solution...possibly some setup w/ dynamics simulations etc?

any suggestions would be more than greatly appreciated.

thanks

richyb3d

[drblacksnake]

perhaps Cloth+curve+Wrap+ikSpline might help.. or try to incorporate Hair.. actually it depends on freedom of necklace.

[doug-hines]

Richyb3d,

I would like to know how it went. I have a feeling that I will run into this problem a little later on in my project.

[caracolina]

'perhaps Cloth+curve+Wrap+ikSpline might help'

I have thus far tried an ik spline on joints which have the pearls(of the necklace) parented to them individually, however, i have found animating the cvs of the spline curve just not efficient for my purposes.

is there a better approach?

thanks and regards,

richyb3d

[drblacksnake]

actually when You use a Cloth as wrapdeformer for curve, then there's no direct means and needs in animating its CVs. however if You want more cotrol over curve, then You can add a blendShapes for it - then You'll be able to animate CVs of static curve and manage its influence by a single weight slider.