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Old 06-13-2007, 03:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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bicycle chain

I'm modeling a Canondale Prophet and I'm am almost to the chain, My question is what is the best possible way to model it as far as getting it to follow a path, would it be to follow a spline and just array it or should I use reactor for this, If I need to use reactor, could please be as detailed as possible or point to me to a tutorial that will help me with that, Im not really that familiar with reactor. You can view my work so far by click ing on the link and thanks so much for any help


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I know you can make an articulated chain with bones, but i'm not sure how you would animate it around the gears thou.

I almost worked out how to do it with the reactor rope modifier. I made a rope that is contrained around 2 discs but I cant work out how to join it into a loop, it keeps splitting up into a single strand. If someone could tell me how to do that I could proberbly make you a tutorial.
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