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  • #959307
    Mizz
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    Anyone here using the dforce magnets? For some reason whenever I try to set key-frame animation on the magnet itself, the magnet gizmo moves, but not the magnet mesh. It's locked in place. But the "magnet' part still works just fine, holding the fabric section in place. Any ideas?

    #959438
    Snooker
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    You have to run the simulation after setting up the animation to take effect on the mesh.

    #959515
    Mizz
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    I'm doing that though. No movement with the simulation. But the gizmo for the magnet is moving. It's almost as the magnet is locked for some reason

    #960993
    Snooker
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    How do you add the magnet?

    1. select a vertex of the surface you want to animate
    2. add the dForce magnet and position it near to this vertex
    3. define the keys
    3. simulate

    It seems the magnet is not connected to the surface.

    #961236
    Mizz
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    Gahhhhh... This is driving me crazy lol. I've went over the directions many times, and followed the video. Maybe a setting toggled from previous projects?

    Video of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/p2ufLE5

    And the gizmo moving when the magnet is selected: https://imgur.com/a/bfyKf6k

    This video leads me to believe that some setting is locking the magnet in place when simulating.

    Video of the magnet up close: https://imgur.com/a/RlZh6yp

    #962373
    Mizz
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    Change “Start Bones From memorized Pose” to “OFF”
    Change Frames To Simulate to Animated (Use Timeline Play Range)

    same results 🙁

    #963426
    Sara1985
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    I think you are doing nothing wrong in the video, maybe it helps if you do a video on the whole process if it's different to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vttMJkJvpCA&t=763s

    #963538
    Mizz
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    Here's a better video from start to finish of the basic included example. Note: I toggled "start bones from memorized pose" after this example with the same results. I even set the surface sim settings the same as the video example above, as well as the fabric subdivisions.

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/lriqde8086rwtuc/2019-02-16_14-52-44.mp4/file

    #963560
    Sara1985
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    ok, I did everything exactly what you did, it works for me. So I am running out of ideas. Will send you my scene file that is working for me. Let's see if it works for you or not.

    #963570
    Mizz
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    Just updating here. Sarah has sent me a scene file. The sim works when I play it, but it breaks when I re-sim, giving the same undesired results as prior.

    MFW:

    #963621
    Mizz
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    Welp... It seems my issue all along was I was using the latest stable build. I had no idea that 4.11 beta was out. This fixed my issue. Thank you all for the help. Now ill crawl into my shame corner with glee

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