Help Fishing Pole/Line

[josemendez]

Cool.  Got the length shorter.  Unfortunately, I am having a frustrating time getting the control point placement correct.  Definitely don't understand it.
I'll keep at it.
Thank you.

Hi Natty,

Not too sure how I can go about helping you with this one.

Rope initial shape/length is defined by a path. This path passes trough all control points in a sequential fashion (pass trough first control point, then second, etc). Each control point has a couple of "tangent handles" sprouting from it, that determine the orientation and curvature of the path as it passes trough the point. This is the typical spline you'd find in most other 2D/3D programs.

This video might be of help, if you haven't watched it yet:
http://obi.virtualmethodstudio.com/videos.html