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Thickness Lets you specify a thickness for the simulated rope, as the shape
used to create the rope has no inherent thickness. A rope with a thickness of
0.0 will not be visible in the simulation.
Friction The coefficient of friction for the rope's surface. As with rigid bodies,
this affects how smoothly the rope will move relative to surfaces it’s in contact
with. The Friction values for both objects are combined to produce a coefficient
for the interaction.
Air Resistance The extent to which the rope loses energy as it moves.
Rope Type
■ Spring The default rope type.
■ Stiffness How much the rope can stretch.
■ Damping How quickly oscillations settle down when the rope is
compressed or expands.
■ Num Weaves The extent to which the rope's inflexibility extends
across vertices. For example, a value of 3 ensures that all vertices
separated by three or fewer sections are subject to extra forces to stop
bending. Large Num Weaves values produce an inflexible rope, whereas
small values mean that only sections very close to each other will have
restricted relative movement.
■ Keep Shape When on, the rope tries to keep its original shape, such
as a spiral, rather than returning to a straight line. The effectiveness of
this depends on the number of weaves (the higher of number of weaves,
the stronger the shape-keeping forces).
■ Constraint Uses a simpler, and hence less computationally expensive,
model to simulate the rope. Ropes of this type are quite stiff, and cannot
be configured in the same way as ropes with a Spring type.
Avoid Self-Intersections When on, the rope will not intersect with itself
during the simulation. This results in a more realistic simulation, but can
increase simulation time.
Start With Current State The rope starts the simulation using the current
state stored in the modifier. This can be useful if you have, for example, draped
the rope around something in the Preview Window and then updated the
viewport using Update MAX. When off, the rope starts with the state it had
originally, below the modifier in the stack.
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