Tag Properties
Enable this option if the yellow constraints should also be displayed if the corresponding tag is not selected.
Note that the following settings under Create can be modified during a simulation but these changes will not be applied until after the simulation has been restarted.
This value defines the distance (while in the initial state) to another object point under which a constraint was added when you click on Create or, if you modify the Search Radius using the Live Update option, if enabled. This means that you should make a point selection or similar, if you want. The nearest points will be connected. With the settings described below you can add restrictions.
Max Connections[1..2147483647]
If Search Radius is only large enough, any point could be connected to any other by constraint. This is desired only in very few cases, which is why you can define the maximum number that each point of the object to which the tag is assigned should not exceed. The next point will always be connected.
If you want to restrict the creation of Constraints to certain points, use a point Selection tag. This can be assigned to the object to which the Connector tag is assigned as well as all other objects. Since only the tag name is evaluated here, all tags with the same name will be taken into consideration.
Enable this option if you also want to assign Connector Constraints to the points of the object to which the tag is assigned. These will then also be created in addition to the existing Structure Constraints on the Cloth or Rope tag object.
This can be used, for example, in combination with Point Constraints to achieve stiffening (e.g., also for splines) in certain areas.
If you want to prevent the creation of Constraints to objects other than the one carrying the tag, disable this option. You will then only be able o create Constraints in the object to which the tag is assigned.
If you want to explicitly include or exclude other objects for the current connector tag, select the corresponding mode and drag and drop their simulation tags (e.g., clothing or rope tag) into this list.
If the option is disabled, create and delete Constraints with the buttons of the same name. If, on the other hand, you proceed interactively by modifying the previous setting (incl. displaying the respective Constraints in the Viewport, you should enable this options.
If Live Update is disabled, new Constraints can be created or deleted here.
The Stretchiness is a measure for the degree to which the Connector Constraints work. For small values, the points are fixed. If you define high values, the Connector Constraint can be stretched like rubber.
Here you can animate Constraint lengths during a simulation. If, for example, you animate to a value of 0%, the connected points will be approached until contact (note that both points that are connected via a Constraint are exempted from colliding with one another).
At the start of the simulation, this value should always be set to 100%, otherwise a sudden change in distance will cause the simulation to derail.
With this option enabled, Connector Constraints that are stretched beyond a certain level will tear (= no longer exert a cohesive force).
A tearing mode can be specified here:
- Relative: If the constraint stretches relative to the rest length, by this value, it cracks.
- Absolute: If the constraint lengthens with respect to the rest length by this amount, it breaks. This is important, for example, for connectors that have a rest length of 0, where, for example, connected points lie on top of each other.
A tearing of the Connector Constraints occurs as soon as they stretch by more than the proportion specified here compared to their rest length (simulation start). If a Constraint is 10 cm long, for example, and 150% is defined here, a tear of 15 cm will result.
If you want to turn off the Connector tag at a certain time, animate to a value of 100% (at this value all Constraints will break).
In the Absolute mode, this value indicates the absolute constraint strain compared to the rest length at which a crack occurs.