twisted pair cable pls help - Page 2 - Simply Maya User Community

# 16 07-04-2008 , 09:53 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006

Posts: 18

Adamranders, your cable is just great, looks more natural than mine. Did you do it with deformers? Pls provide some info

Quote

# 17 08-04-2008 , 08:20 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Sep 2007

Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Posts: 450

looks good man, glad you found a fairly efficient and clearly inexpensive way to do it.
I'm interested to see what you do with them now.

Oh and for efficiency sake wouldn't it be a lot easier to just model the wire where you see it? You don't need the copper through the whole visible geometry as it would be shielded. I mean normally utp wire as an outer shielding which prevents you from seeing the twist until you expose pairs, and you cannot see copper until you strip the wire.

Keep that in mind or your geometry will start to tank you.

Peace, love and Anarchy~~~~~~~
______________________________
Wip:
iMac
Full House Project
Arch Viz Reel

My Website is Finally Back up!

“Welcome to the Internet. Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.”

Last edited by alexanderH; 08-04-2008 at 08:22 AM.

Quote

# 18 08-04-2008 , 01:35 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006

Posts: 18

The copper is extruded along the same path so it's no extra effort to do, two clicks actually. All components must be visible, copper thread included, it's gonna be a layered pic in flash where you can turn off insulation layers and see what's inside.
I had to rebuild the thing, an engineer buddy said the coil density was way too high. So it looks more realistic now. Lighting is default, looks cheap i know but i had enough.

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: 01.jpg
Views: 129
Size: 55.0 KB
ID: 38735

Quote

# 19 11-04-2008 , 12:40 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008

Posts: 25

the first two images are one i did in the same manner you were originally trying just with my trig applied to correct the deformation. the third is with the plugin and it only took about 5 min to make even with refining the twist and how close the wires layed to each other. your cable is coming along great though, keep up the good work and continue to post with you're progress, and never hesitate to ask questions, some ppl may give you crap for asking Q's that they think you should know , but they just don't remember the difficulties of trying to learn, everyone here is here to help as a community. again keep up the good work!

Quote

Posting Rules Forum Rules

Similar Threads

Topics

Free Courses

Full Courses

VFX News