rigging earrings with ncloth

noface789

Beginner here. I'm doing some tests with ncloth rigging and don't know why my earring is tearing apart. I made the ncloth preset concrete with any attribute having to do with rigidity turned to max. Everything moves fine, the earring just goes crazy. Apparently you can do a trick with Locators to give your constraint more information as to how to deform so it won't tear apart, but I don't know if there's anything wrong with my implementation.


The selected verts are the selection I chose for my component to component constraint. As you can see by the outline snippet, I have the locator parented to the ear and the constraint parented to the locator. This is how the format was described to me in a video I watched. But the tearing problem still happens. Any suggestions?

noface789

nevermind, got it.

Mark Dygert

It might be helpful to say how you fixed it so anyone else having the same problem that stumbles on this thread will also find an answer  

I'm glad you solved it! Nice work.

noface789

eh sort of a novice mistake by me, my ear geos were selecting both ears, so when I made my dynamic constraint it tried calculating the location of both ear meshes when I only want it to calculate the ear that the earring is attached to. For some reason it didn't work right away by just separating the ear meshes and remaking the constraint. I had to also remake the locator as well.