12-04-2021, 11:59 AM
Hello,
We are using Obi Rope & Rod objects to create worm-like creatures.
The Rods have been harder to setup, and we would be happy to have your feedback on the issues we encountered in order to choose whether we use them in our project, or just stick to Obi Ropes.
- When editing a path, the Rod seems to quickly add twists and distortions on the curves.
As you can see in the picture below, the wireframe of the rod shape suddenly rotates 180° in the middle, adding distortion to the mesh… this might be related to the varying thickness we applied to the different key points/particles ?
We do not seem to have this issue with Ropes, maybe as the particles are not oriented ?
- We cannot get the Rods to maintain their Rest shapes, in Play mode, they mostly seem to behave like Ropes (please see the attached video).
Is there any thing we could be missing in the way we build them ?
We followed the steps on your website, and made sure the “Keep Initial Shape” value is turned on in the BluePrint.
![[Image: rod-edit.png]](http://docs.am-cb.net/faune/rod-edit.png)
sample video here :
http://docs.am-cb.net/faune/Rod_shape.mov
Thanks in advance,
Best,
Adrien Mondot
We are using Obi Rope & Rod objects to create worm-like creatures.
The Rods have been harder to setup, and we would be happy to have your feedback on the issues we encountered in order to choose whether we use them in our project, or just stick to Obi Ropes.
- When editing a path, the Rod seems to quickly add twists and distortions on the curves.
As you can see in the picture below, the wireframe of the rod shape suddenly rotates 180° in the middle, adding distortion to the mesh… this might be related to the varying thickness we applied to the different key points/particles ?
We do not seem to have this issue with Ropes, maybe as the particles are not oriented ?
- We cannot get the Rods to maintain their Rest shapes, in Play mode, they mostly seem to behave like Ropes (please see the attached video).
Is there any thing we could be missing in the way we build them ?
We followed the steps on your website, and made sure the “Keep Initial Shape” value is turned on in the BluePrint.
sample video here :
http://docs.am-cb.net/faune/Rod_shape.mov
Thanks in advance,
Best,
Adrien Mondot