WEBVTT 00:00.720 --> 00:07.020 In this lesson I'm going to introduce in here, which, you know, by its name is associated with hair, 00:07.020 --> 00:11.640 but in this case we're going to use it to create a rope for decoration. 00:12.060 --> 00:17.340 I found this image from some Coco artwork, the the Pixar movie. 00:17.700 --> 00:26.430 And I want to recreate this kind of hanging decoration where these squares will be Closs simulation 00:26.700 --> 00:33.030 and the cord or rope that holds them up is going to be an inherent simulation and they're going to use 00:33.030 --> 00:33.960 the same nucleus. 00:33.960 --> 00:35.550 So they'll be affected similarly. 00:35.850 --> 00:42.270 But the first step we need to do is to create the cord and then we'll create these little banners and 00:42.270 --> 00:43.170 the texture. 00:44.010 --> 00:46.490 The cutout aspect will happen through a texture. 00:46.500 --> 00:47.880 We don't actually model that. 00:48.240 --> 00:54.690 So the easiest way to do that would be to apply your own texture and you would know all about that if 00:54.690 --> 00:57.960 you've watched the texturing section of this course. 00:58.080 --> 00:59.400 So let's jump right into it. 00:59.400 --> 01:00.760 Let's create a curve. 01:00.770 --> 01:04.710 We'll go to the curve shelf here and we'll select a curved tool. 01:05.070 --> 01:07.110 And I'm going to go to the perspective view. 01:07.530 --> 01:15.960 And I'm just going to make I'm going to use the grid here or the floor just to kind of draw out our 01:16.380 --> 01:17.000 curve. 01:17.250 --> 01:23.340 So I'm going to hold down V and click on these two points. 01:23.790 --> 01:26.280 And I think I need to show NRPs curves here. 01:26.280 --> 01:27.960 So we actually see what we just made. 01:28.710 --> 01:35.100 And then I'm going to center the pivot and we can start to place this. 01:35.600 --> 01:37.410 This is going to be the rope, basically. 01:37.950 --> 01:44.160 So I'm going to get up a two view panel here, layouts to paint side by side and change this one to 01:44.160 --> 01:53.280 the render view render cam and six here and turn on the little film gate so we can kind of see how we're 01:53.280 --> 01:54.180 framing this up. 01:54.450 --> 02:00.030 And what I have envisioned here is that it's going to kind of be hanging in this general area, maybe 02:00.030 --> 02:04.230 off of this tree that we've kind of blocked in here, kind of roughly. 02:04.620 --> 02:07.890 And so maybe one end can be behind the tree. 02:07.890 --> 02:12.840 So we don't really have to see where it's connecting and we don't have to worry about that too much. 02:13.140 --> 02:15.600 And then the other end can just go right off the frame. 02:15.810 --> 02:22.230 So we just want to scroll through all the camera moves to make sure that we don't, you know, see it 02:22.230 --> 02:23.160 off the edge there. 02:23.160 --> 02:28.490 So it looks like that's all within the range of where we're going to see the rope or the cord. 02:29.070 --> 02:33.810 So now we need to do is to add some more curvy curves. 02:33.810 --> 02:34.380 So if we. 02:34.380 --> 02:34.620 Right. 02:34.620 --> 02:37.080 Click on this and go to curve point our side. 02:37.080 --> 02:43.590 If we can go to control vertex, there's only a like a couple of points here and in here. 02:43.590 --> 02:49.110 Simulation is going to be based off how many control vertices you can see how kind of jagged this curve 02:49.110 --> 02:49.230 is. 02:49.230 --> 02:50.640 And we want that to be very smooth. 02:50.640 --> 02:54.960 So we need to add some more CVS's, which we can do after the fact, after we've already made this. 02:55.200 --> 03:00.990 All we have to do is go up to the modeling menu and go over to curves and go down to rebuild. 03:01.350 --> 03:08.160 And I'll open up the option box and let's say maybe, yeah, 20, 25, something like that, and I'll 03:08.160 --> 03:09.240 just rebuild that. 03:09.420 --> 03:10.860 So now we go to right. 03:10.860 --> 03:13.830 Click and say control vertex and has a ton of points. 03:14.070 --> 03:15.420 So we simulate this. 03:15.420 --> 03:16.970 It's going to be a nice smooth curve. 03:17.370 --> 03:18.090 OK, cool. 03:18.090 --> 03:23.520 So let's right click back onto object mode and with this curve selected, I'm just going to call this, 03:24.390 --> 03:26.550 let's see the banner cord. 03:28.890 --> 03:30.960 This is called a curve because that's really what it is. 03:31.470 --> 03:37.920 And so Baner Curve and we can go back to the effects menu and click on in here and scroll down to make 03:37.920 --> 03:39.480 selected curves dynamic. 03:39.960 --> 03:45.540 Just open up that option box and all these defaults will work exactly how you want them to. 03:45.960 --> 03:50.070 Also, they may curve dynamic and as soon as I do that, we get a bunch of new stuff over here. 03:50.400 --> 03:54.570 We have Alpe curves, you have follicles, you have a nucleus and we have a hair system, OK? 03:54.810 --> 03:57.090 And each one of those is going to do something a little different. 03:57.330 --> 03:59.280 And they're kind of self-explanatory. 03:59.280 --> 04:02.100 But basically we're kind of familiar with the nucleus so far. 04:02.430 --> 04:07.200 And this is going to maybe be the first time they're actually, you know, digging in deep here with 04:07.200 --> 04:07.350 it. 04:08.610 --> 04:13.980 We've learned a little bit from the particles, but it's the same idea, same nucleus, and we just 04:13.980 --> 04:15.300 need to change the subframe. 04:15.600 --> 04:22.200 So we want to include the pre role here, because as soon as we play, this curve is going to sag down 04:22.530 --> 04:29.070 and we don't want it to be, you know, just starting to sag down on this frame and be sagging. 04:29.340 --> 04:34.590 Seeing that animation, we want that to, you know, pre roll and sag before our animation starts with 04:34.590 --> 04:35.280 our character. 04:35.550 --> 04:43.860 So let's go to some, you know, maybe like 700 and let's so turn that star frame to seven hundred. 04:44.640 --> 04:50.070 And the other thing we need to do is change the space scale to be the same as our scene. 04:50.430 --> 04:57.360 So remember, it's, you know, zero point zero one if we are working in centimeters and it's going 04:57.360 --> 04:58.200 to think that's meter. 04:58.210 --> 05:00.240 So we just need to dial that back. 05:00.320 --> 05:02.540 With this little thing here, this is a big key. 05:02.870 --> 05:08.060 So with this, everything should look kind of physically accurate based on the scale of our scene. 05:08.450 --> 05:11.840 So when I hit play, it should simulate this. 05:11.840 --> 05:15.410 And you can see it's getting really stretchy and it's stretching out. 05:15.710 --> 05:17.990 And I'm just can't escape to stop that. 05:18.000 --> 05:25.700 Go back to the first frame and I'm going to select On the Curve, which should be under here, and we 05:25.700 --> 05:27.950 can go to the curved shape. 05:29.720 --> 05:36.920 Over here, let's see under follicle, you can see that the point lock is both ends and that's how we're 05:36.920 --> 05:40.430 getting both ends of this thing to be connected. 05:40.760 --> 05:45.920 If this was actual hair, we would just say, like the base is the only thing we would want to have 05:45.920 --> 05:46.670 connected. 05:47.510 --> 05:52.790 But because this is a rope and it's going to going between two ends, the default works for us with 05:52.790 --> 05:53.510 both hands. 05:54.030 --> 05:54.300 Cool. 05:54.330 --> 06:01.160 So the other thing we can do is go to the hair system here and we just need to scroll down to the dynamic 06:01.160 --> 06:04.430 properties and we can see that right here. 06:04.730 --> 06:09.500 And we can just scroll that down and increase the stretch resistance and the compression resistance. 06:09.830 --> 06:12.320 And you'll see this again when we do the end cloth. 06:12.720 --> 06:19.550 A lot of these in dynamic properties are going to be the same between in here in cloth and particles. 06:19.800 --> 06:21.920 A lot of them share very similar values. 06:21.920 --> 06:28.280 And what this says is it is going to resist stretching, which is going to help us with what we just 06:28.280 --> 06:30.080 saw, where it was stretching all the way to the ground. 06:30.080 --> 06:32.090 It's going to stop that somewhat. 06:32.660 --> 06:39.290 And then compression resistance is going to keep it from getting smaller and going, you know, the 06:39.290 --> 06:41.320 opposite of stretch, basically. 06:41.720 --> 06:44.290 So we want to prevent both of those just a little bit. 06:44.300 --> 06:50.210 So we're going to increase that and then let's hit play again and we can see that our curve should not 06:50.720 --> 06:52.130 go all the way down. 06:52.730 --> 06:54.830 And let's see, it's kind of springing back up. 06:55.340 --> 06:57.080 And this is why we have the pre roll. 06:58.570 --> 07:05.140 So that all of this springiness in bounciness can happen during the pre roll and it'll settle into its 07:05.830 --> 07:07.210 kind of final pose. 07:08.150 --> 07:15.490 Well, well, well, well, before we get to frame 1001, which is when our animation is actually going 07:15.490 --> 07:15.950 to start. 07:16.400 --> 07:23.770 So the other thing I want to do with this curve is I want to simulate kind of similarly how we did the 07:23.770 --> 07:24.490 fireflies. 07:24.790 --> 07:30.600 I want the impact of this groundbreaking to affect this cord and make it swing a little bit. 07:30.910 --> 07:36.430 So the easiest way to do that so we can really control it is to create a passive collider. 07:36.430 --> 07:39.910 So I'm going to create a sphere and I'm going to increase the scale of that. 07:40.420 --> 07:47.530 And we are going to go over to even though we're working with an in here and we want this sphere to 07:47.530 --> 07:48.190 collide with it. 07:48.700 --> 07:54.400 The the one little goofy thing is that the actual passive collider button is under and cloth. 07:54.790 --> 08:00.190 So we can say create passive collider and that's going to work with and cloth and hair, whatever we 08:00.190 --> 08:00.700 choose. 08:01.030 --> 08:02.850 So I'm going to say create a massive collider. 08:02.860 --> 08:05.080 So now we have attributes for this sphere. 08:05.440 --> 08:08.440 If we click on it, we can see it says in rigid shape one. 08:08.860 --> 08:15.880 And, you know, all of these kind of work, it's for our purposes, we're just kind of getting this 08:15.880 --> 08:16.540 thing in position. 08:16.540 --> 08:24.430 So it kind of bumps up against the cord and makes it move a little bit when the Bones character jumps 08:24.430 --> 08:25.020 out of the ground. 08:25.330 --> 08:27.250 So let's figure out the timing of that. 08:27.730 --> 08:31.060 And it should be around towards the end. 08:31.060 --> 08:32.680 He's going to bust out of here. 08:33.280 --> 08:34.510 So let's do it. 08:34.510 --> 08:42.520 Maybe let's get the sphere kind of away from the cord and maybe even scale it up just a little bit more. 08:44.890 --> 08:51.040 And let's set a key frame here and then let's just kind of step forward. 08:51.940 --> 08:57.710 I can kind of see maybe in here is where it will be at the maximum kind of pushing up against this. 08:57.730 --> 09:05.200 I'm just moving this over into the curve and it's going to push it once we actually simulate it and 09:05.200 --> 09:06.610 we can see if that's far enough. 09:07.090 --> 09:13.990 And then I will just middle mouse drag this keyframe back over here about an even distance. 09:13.990 --> 09:18.270 So it kind of moves forward and back out of that frame. 09:18.700 --> 09:24.220 So so now that we have that done, I'm just going to go and cash this out because I think it's in a 09:24.220 --> 09:28.120 pretty good spot without having to actually see this first before cashing. 09:28.510 --> 09:32.910 So again, cashing is a little different each time you do it for effects. 09:33.190 --> 09:39.160 So for the in dynamic part, you know, we figured out the bullet that's its own system, Olympic. 09:39.160 --> 09:42.100 You know, we can export the selection to Olympic here. 09:42.520 --> 09:46.900 And then when we do geometry, we can cash Olympic here and export selection there. 09:47.140 --> 09:51.490 But when we do in dynamics that has its own cache and has called in cache. 09:51.880 --> 09:58.150 So with this curve selected, I'm going to go to encash and say create new cash and it's going to be 09:58.150 --> 10:00.460 an object because, you know, it's not a fluid. 10:00.460 --> 10:03.020 So, you know, just by common sense, it should be this. 10:03.020 --> 10:04.360 Someone opened up the option box. 10:04.720 --> 10:07.660 And I want one file just to keep it nice and clean. 10:08.020 --> 10:09.490 And I'm going to say it here. 10:09.490 --> 10:10.480 System shape. 10:11.170 --> 10:17.980 Let's just call this banner curve so we keep it the same name Panner Curve, and I'll just say zero 10:17.980 --> 10:20.590 one in case we need to iterate on this time. 10:20.590 --> 10:21.130 Slider. 10:21.160 --> 10:23.830 Yeah, we want that full range and then. 10:24.280 --> 10:26.220 Oh yeah that looks like that works. 10:26.220 --> 10:28.030 So I'm going to create and I'll see you in one second. 10:47.210 --> 10:52.880 Grants are in, cash has completed, and any time you do, an international automatically connected 10:52.880 --> 10:53.030 up. 10:53.040 --> 10:57.890 So now we can see there's a new tab here called Banner Curves zero one cash. 10:58.250 --> 10:59.230 We click on that. 10:59.240 --> 11:05.900 We can see it's enabled and it has hooked up the name, the correct name that we named it and the location 11:05.900 --> 11:06.880 that it's saved in. 11:07.190 --> 11:11.620 And again, this is why you need to set your project so that all this stuff goes into the right folders. 11:12.050 --> 11:15.950 And so now now we're ready to go and see if this actually worked. 11:16.310 --> 11:18.470 So I'm not going to hide this fear right now. 11:18.860 --> 11:20.360 And that should play back. 11:20.900 --> 11:23.890 You know pretty well we can actually scrub the timeline and see it. 11:24.660 --> 11:27.470 It looks like I set a key on this fear visibility. 11:27.470 --> 11:32.360 So I'll just go over to that and say delete selected and then turn that off again. 11:32.600 --> 11:33.810 And it should stay off now. 11:34.440 --> 11:41.480 So now when we look at this curve, we can see that it indeed is kind of drooping down in the way that 11:41.480 --> 11:42.770 I would expect it to at least. 11:43.070 --> 11:52.640 And then we can kind of see how it gets affected by the kind of explosion here and we might be able 11:52.640 --> 11:55.310 to see a little bit better in the perspective camera. 11:58.720 --> 12:07.360 And so now we can see that get pushed back and then I'll swing forward and kind of settle back down. 12:07.990 --> 12:09.600 So that looks pretty cool. 12:09.610 --> 12:12.770 It might be a little bit low for this camera. 12:13.810 --> 12:15.570 I think I might want a little bit higher. 12:15.940 --> 12:22.630 So, yeah, we should be able to just drag this guy up because I don't really want to break the silhouette 12:22.630 --> 12:23.540 of this guy. 12:23.560 --> 12:29.040 I want that to be readable and that these will be kind of above that a little bit. 12:29.590 --> 12:32.230 So that should all be fine. 12:32.830 --> 12:34.240 And yeah. 12:34.510 --> 12:38.440 So you can see it kind of drop down and then. 12:39.500 --> 12:48.170 The fact that he explodes out of the ground like a crazy zombie actually affects that rope, so that'll 12:48.170 --> 12:52.250 look really cool once we get those banners on there, because those are going to have their own motion 12:52.250 --> 12:54.980 as well, and then they'll be kind of settling down back here. 12:54.980 --> 12:58.800 So it'll be a nice little thing that will kind of catch the eye. 12:58.820 --> 13:00.390 I think a little bit in our animation. 13:00.740 --> 13:07.850 So in the next lesson, I'm going to discuss how to attach those banners and introduce in cloth as a 13:07.850 --> 13:09.260 dynamic system as well. 13:09.560 --> 13:11.390 So thanks for watching and I'll see in the next lesson.