rope vs cloth

[josemendez]

I am trying to figure out how to simulate a belt-like material (thin rectangular box) as pointed to by 2 and attached to 1(in screenshot).

I want the belt flexible but stiff(like a harness).  Should I be using rope or cloth?  I own both and am thinking cloth might be better solution.

Thanks for any help.

-David Swigger

Ropes do not model torsion, which means your belt would be free to rotate around its longitudinal axis. You could use rods instead, which do model torsion. But either ropes or rods would approximate the belt as a cylinder, which for collision detection is not really accurate.

I'd use cloth for this. Make sure to use enough substeps to reach the desired stiffness, then increase bending compliance (or deactivate bend constraints entirely) so that it is flexible enough.