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How to make a chain?

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#1

Hello,

im trying to create a chain using zspheres and “insert local mesh”, as i saw in an old video on youtube, but it doesnt seem to work.

My steps were:

  1. create a basic chain from two rings and make a polymesh3d out of them
  2. append zsphere and set density to zero
  3. create a chain from a zpheres
  4. click adaptive skin/ insert local mesh into the main zsphere

As i saw on a video there must be a chain created that way, but i only get the main zsphere as a chain part and nothing else

Can somebody help me with this?

thanks in advance

#2

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Joseph_Drust#Insert_Local_Mesh.2C_Insert_Connector_Mesh

#3

thanks, but thats somehow not working for me:confused:

#4

My steps were:

  1. create a basic chain from two rings and make a polymesh3d out of them
  2. append zsphere and set density to zero

You’ll want a density of 1, and classic skinning turned on.

Insert local mesh will insert the polymesh at the active zsphere, but I dont think it does the rest (even if its the root, at least from my experience). Ctrl+click another zsphere and repeat the process. Ctrl+click the chains and use Insert Connector Mesh for those.