Modeling a net??

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Hey people.
Im trying to model a soccer goal net for a little animation that i have to do. i came up making a lot of cilinders, attach them and then make a boolean, at the end i got a nice net (all stretched tho), but in the animation this net falls over a soccer ball which lays on the floor. I tried to animate it with reactor but the net just colapsed.

Now maybe thats not the best to solution for modeling a net? or not the best solution to animate the net falling on the soccer ball?...
should i model the net with splines?

regards
Javier

Quaggs

In reactor, did you create a rigid mesh collection and attach the net to it? that may be the solution to your colapsing net problem.

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well i made the net mesh to be a cloth collection...so it bends over the ball... i attached it to rigid body as u said but it behaves like that, completly rigid, and if i make it cloth and rigid reactor says that the mesh belongs to 2 different collections .

PS. i forgot to explain that the net bends over the ball (the mesh its not rigid)
the way i modeled the net is a good solution?

Quaggs

maybe instead of modeling an actual net, you could just use a large plane, draped over the goalposts, and texture it with an alpha to make it look like a net

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No i can´t do that...i really need the net to be modeled cuz its a very close shot of the net bending on the ball so its very detailed

but thanks for the suggestion

Husch

I would model the net like working with tiling textures.
Just model a little symmetrical piece of the net, duplicate
this piece in a row (in 3D Max array tool), attach them and weld the vertices.
Duplicate the rows and attach them and weld the vertices.
In the end you should get a nice clean mesh ready for simulation.

Toomas

Do this:
Make a dummy net out of 4 planes, get reactor to work with it then you just attach the real net to this dummy one and you are done.

Husch

The goles of the Fifa World Cup use hexagon shapes for their nets.

Rekmar

the goals of Fifa World Cup and any other game use planes with alpha, and a tiling texture (which can be squares, hexagons or whatever)

I see no reason not to do this with planes and alpha, plus the physics computation would be a lot faster than if you had the actual net modelled. and after all, goal nets react very similar to cloth

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thnx for the replys people...i think ill take Husch modeling option...*cross fingers*

ill keep u informed

EDIT: well i modeled the net the same way as Husch said, looking good, still reactor isnt cooperating (im still a noob at reactor) so i ended animating the net with softselection and FFD modifier.

it turned good. thanks peeps

arshlevon

take a plane with lots of divisions and use max cloth for the simulation, or reactor, whatever your more comfortable with. then once the animation is done i would model the net and use skin wrap to bind it to the cloth simulation. kind of like this...

http://download.autodesk.com/media/MNE/qt/skinwrap_300k.mov