How RBD constraints from Rule (hinges) work?

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Hi, I looked up the example, it does create the hinge constraints when connection type set to “Hinges”, but it doesn't create a constraints name for it or anything, how do I feed it into the rigid body solver? In the 17.5 demo, we see how he drew the hinge constraints for the door, kinda want to know the little trick here.

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The rbd constraints from* nodes only create the geometry with a name and restlength attributes. You need to pipe that into an rbd constraint properties node to set up the constraint attributes.
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The rbd constraints from* nodes only create the geometry with a name and restlength attributes. You need to pipe that into an rbd constraint properties node to set up the constraint attributes.

Thank you npetit, it's very helpful. It seems the door hinge demo was essentially a hard constraint then?
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It was a slider constraint if I remember, just using the constraint_name attrib from the constraint properties, the rest of the settings were driven off the dop constraint itself
Edited by npetit - May 11, 2019 19:59:02
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Hi, I'm interested which door constraint demo are you discussing?
Edited by Seaton - May 30, 2019 18:49:59
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