you can not pose bones that have springs to it, but you can strategically rig the prop to have only center bones with spring effects .....and pose the non spring bones around it for controlled animation.

Ie - my pony tail girl......the bone before the bouncy parts allows me to change the hair style ...so i can make her pony tail move around while bouncing. I could leave the end bone on the pony tail non spring so i can make it point different directions.

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Excellent ideas!

I thought of another one as well. You could set your ponytails up with physics joints, much like the bird cage is rigged in the abandoned house project. Then you would be using the rigid body physics, which should be fine for toon avatars.

here's how the pony tails would look with the soft cloth effect -

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I made a rig of just pony tails and nothing else, in 3DX I made spring bones set it to rotate and import it to iC and as you rotate the entire rig the springs do bend to gravity and it is updated in real time.

One more step verified into vetting iClone.

Thanks all for your input.
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