Daily Blender Secrets - How to make chains

[darrennew]

If you hang something from the end of the chain, and the chain breaks, you can fix that by increasing the mass of the links in the physics settings. Strength == mass in Blender.

[nibblrrr]

Probably a good idea to make the _Unit Scale_ smaller in the scene settings, before starting to model (or resize the objects & apply scale after adjusting it). That should make the simulation a lot more stable.

[wailfulcrab]

Don't forget to tweak sensitivity margin if you plan close shots otherwise, you will see that links hover above each other

[SaturnDahlia]

cool cool just what i needed. i made a morningstar and i wanted the chains and ball to fall down rather than stand straight up lol

[judexmars]

That's awesome and looks so easy!

[sabinepiter]

Nice, I was just looking for something like this. Thanks

[ĐôngAn-kz]

I do as the video tell, but when i press space bar, all the chain break and blow to every directions

[ShinyFood]

ok blender chrashed when i tried animating it lol but other than that easy and quick and painless thankyou very much

[WakkyWazzer]

Is there any reason why the array modifier wasnt used? Would that effect the animation some how? Sorry new too blender and just tryna learn what i can

[groovywav]

what would be the next step if you want to move the chain around? it wont let me move it into different possitions

[omerrudnick]

My chain explodes every time I try, I've applied the scale. What should I do?

[MickeyTheSecond]

I tried to select half of the whole torus but half of the whole torus gets selects not half of the whole thing.

[darkseby]

Hi, great tutorial, shorts, helpful and useful. I have a question, in the project I also have a sign with a hole and a chain between, seem like that the rigid body (sign) isn't appropriate attached to the chain, I also flip the normal but same result, I was thinking of subdividing the sign for make it more accurate. Do you have any advice? thank you.

[lilycgaming]

Is there a way to apply the rigid body so I can work with it again? Every time I try to move it, it goes agley

[NikkiBudders]

My chain scatters into random directions when I play the simulation instead of falling downwards 0-o

[animebeat]

I think you created blender as you know all the secrets of it... 👀

[jacineyatrakos]

Additionally rather than copy things you can add an array and the attach it to a curve modifier and a line to follow whatever shape you want then set the array to match the curve

[joshgimmix]

If i press Crtl + R to mutliplicate the chain links, the two selected links only move forward the y achse what do i wrong :(

[vanessaafrika]

shift + r doesn't work, do you mean shift + d?

[RiceWitch-dingus-]

shift are just moves it up, no copying....