Hi there,

and again, here I am with another problem I encounter. This is a big one, at least for me, because it involves physics and I hate it ... very much. First, take look at this screenshot.

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As you can see I have a firefighter in the scene. He tries to extinguish a fire. For this I need a flexible hose. You can see the cylinder behind the firefighter. It has physics on, softcloth and a weightmap, I created. I used this tutorial to fight my way through this physics stuff.



I don't know what I am doing wrong here, but I never got the results shown in that tutorial. The cylinder didn't bend at all. It always stays as shown in the picture above. May be I try the wrong way, but the easy way has vanished with iClone 6 - the rope constraint ...
So, if anyone could help me out to create a flexible hose which I can attach to the cone the firefighter is holding. That would be great.

In a later scene I will encounter another flexible hose thing. There is an old man who gets oxygen from a breathing machine through flexible plastic tubes. Honestly I don't have a clue how to do this. if anyone has an idea, be my guest ...

Direx