i don't have it on my hd anymore but if i remember correctly first comes a ball joint, then a slider joint which gets used to control the length and then there are ten ball joints (created recursively) with about 1m fixed distance.

first i tried to use a slider inbetween each of the ten ball joints but it wasn't possible to get this stable. because i limited the range of the up/down movement quite a bit it's not really noticable that there only is one slider at the top.

I'm more interested in how you got it to look like a rope, is that a simple rectangle model inbetween each of the ball joints?

It could have be done with particles, if I remember correctly he had a pretty slick looking cable...

Cheers

Good point there, much like I used the particles for my lazers.

I remember the rope not giving a shadow either.

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