Summary

Title:Rope coiled around cylinder wont simulate
Category:Other
Status:Open
Posted By:coilbook ( )
Date Created:10 August 2016

Problem

Description:

For some reason if you make to many loops with the rope  it jsut wont simulate.  We tried to make a rope reel

Steps to Reproduce:
 

Attached Files:
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>rope+wont+simulate.max (524288 bytes),

Thank you, I will have a look.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

I have fixed the scene:

1. Particles are too big (you can see that when display as particles used). I did not touched resolution and set particle radius manually to 0.02m instead.

2. I set curve smoothing to 0 because it is not needed here (because of excessive amount of smoothing one of the ropes smoothes incorrectly, default value 0.5 works fine).

3. Because ropes do not need to preserve shape we can set remove rigid constraint (set rigid stiffnes to 0.0) and use spring constraints instead (set spring stiffness to 1.0).

4. Because ropes quite long I have increased iteration count to 15. Substep count could be decreased to speedup processing (I set to 15).

After that the scene simulates just fine.


Attached Files:

>rope_wont_simulate.max (282624 bytes),

Thank you!   Am I the only one having problems with Show as particles.  I hit and nothing happens.  Iwonder why

Does it happen in any scene, even simple fresh one? I don't have Max 2015 to test but on 2014 and 2016 everything displays fine here.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

You need to run then 'Toogle Luicd Physics' in Lucid main menu.