AHHHHHHH!!!!! IT WORKS!

*Dies*

Okay... moving on.

You guys are AWESOME!

Great idea... but I have to get this animation into another scene with other animations to finalize it. Any idea how I do that with these cheats? I'm ALL about cheating! XD

Okay, if it's seriously that simple I'm going to throw something. XD I'll try after work; I'm off at 7. Thank you!

Turn the collision OFF for a character



Then Link Character to a Spider. You can time it on a Timeline.

quick cheat -   make the spider prop a "dummy object"   render the scene with helicopter and chain as is because they came out nice ....then load that video back into iclone as the background,  then animate the spider to follow along as smoothly as you imagined on the chain.  - basically compositing.

"but that's cheating!!" :Whistling:

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LOL! Thanks! I look forward to it!

I figured out, by leaving the character behind so I could see better, that the issue may be that the spiderbot isn't stable and straight. That makes sense with true physics -- that would be the case in reality too with a loose chain -- but I need to make him stable for this. In other words, I need to make this unrealistically loose-chainy but also straight. LOL Ahhh animation!

Here's what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwBr-mR2rjA

yeah,  math!   -   I'll let them help on the physics some more because they've got great knowledge of the software and this is an opportunity to go deeper in understanding the science behind the physics.    After that I'll teach you how to cheat! :w00t:    #yolo

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Welp, it was great... up until I linked the character.

At first, I linked him to the spiderbot, and this happened (both videos are by-frame):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUD7LBEPxY

So I thought maybe if I linked the chain to the character directly, it would be better, so I linked him to the chain via a long box on his back (so the chain wouldn't be too short), then attached the spiderbot to him. This happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRotUpciVo

Sooo... what am I doing horribly wrong? Eep! I've thought about animating the two parallel to each-other in order to give the illusion that they're attached, but that will be a lot of work. I'm willing, but before I try, is there a better way?

I did because I don’t want everyone to see it, since it’s unfinished and I’m debuting the video when it’s fully finished. I didn’t think about unlisted. LoL I’ll do that.