Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 12, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted June 12, 2013 While researching a solution to another problem I wanted to see if a cloth loop would properly react to the mechanical input of a roller... RollerTowel.mov Quote
jason1025 Posted June 12, 2013 Posted June 12, 2013 While researching a solution to another problem I wanted to see if a cloth loop would properly react to the mechanical input of a roller... never seen one of those in real life nice work Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 12, 2013 Author Hash Fellow Posted June 12, 2013 When I was little that's how I envisioned it working. Quote
Vertexspline Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Robert- Sometimes we learn a lot of things accidentally--its remembering all of it that is hard. Smiles. Anyhow --nice cloth simulation indeed. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Hash Fellow Posted June 13, 2013 I notice that the cloth changes direction immediately when the roller changes direction but when the roller stops the cloth coasts on a little bit further. That is odd. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Hash Fellow Posted June 13, 2013 A more complex arrangement with three rollers RollerTowelB.mov Here's the PRJ if anyone wishes to play with it. To simulate the cloth right-click in the chor and do Plugins>Simcloth Simulate. ClothBelt04b_three_rollers.prj Quote
Admin Rodney Posted June 13, 2013 Admin Posted June 13, 2013 Um.... Wow. How do you come up with this stuff! Color me impressed. Added: Now you've got me wondering how I could get digital ink to transfer from off of one of the rollers onto the paper... Perhaps we can use a negative force to stick particle ink to the paper. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Hash Fellow Posted June 13, 2013 New weird thing I just noticed... after the rollers have moved into place, the belt starts moving as if they were turning one frame before they actually start turning. I suppose the cloth is reacting to the inter-frame movement between the last stationary frame and the first moving frame. We don't' see it but the cloth does because it is simulating its movement in fractions of a frame time increments. Quote
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