I’m using Reactor for the first time and need a bit of help with the rope....

Basically we have thick cables (best way to describe it is like a coaxal cable for your TV) and I can’t get the cables (rope) to be REALLY stiff…

I basically just want the cable to follow a solid object at one end, and be “stuck” on the other end. 

So far I have the rope following the animated object, and being stuck at the other end.. but the rope just starts hanging like its really really limp… I can’t find the setting to make it super stiff..... is there something in Reactor that can set that?

Intel Quad Core Xeon 2.8 ghz 64 bit
8gigs of Ram

In the reactor Rope modifier on your spline, you have a setting for stiffness that you can crank up, there’s also values for damping and air resistance that may or may not be of interest to you. The help file describes each one under the reactor section.

3ds Max 2009 SP1, 2010 SP1
Maya 2012
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Dual Intel Xeon E5520, 6 GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OC

I messed with all those settings, dropping them to 0 and raising them to the max, but the “rope” just falls to the gravity or something.. thought that would be it, but it doesn’t seem to be…

Intel Quad Core Xeon 2.8 ghz 64 bit
8gigs of Ram

You can always set gravity to zero (Utilities>reactor>Havok World), run your sim with the rope, then change it back if you need to sim other stuff.

3ds Max 2009 SP1, 2010 SP1
Maya 2012
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Dual Intel Xeon E5520, 6 GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OC