Animating cables/ropes in C4D?

[Matthew R. Rodwell]

Can someone point me in the right direction to make ropes/cables in C4D. I have an image that comes down from the top of the screen I want it to look like it is being lowered by cables like on stage in a play. I am a beginner with C4D. Thanks in advance

 

[milksac]

The book - Cinema 4D 10 Workshop has a couple of pages showing how to make a rope. It uses splines and sweep nurbs to create the rope.

Here's a COFFEE plug that makes rope. I have no clue if it works, I haven't tested it yet.
http://www.codeworkers.de/garage.html

 

[Matthew R. Rodwell]

Great I'll give that one a try, thanks alot.

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

Here's a couple links to Base80's site that has a few things that might help.

http://www.base80.com/index.php/2006/02/15/connecting_cables_2_hair_tut

http://www.base80.com/index.php/2007/02/17/dynamic_phone_cord

You might not even need those, it should be pretty easy considering, depending on the weight of the object being lowered, the ropes should be pretty taut and you would just need two cylinders or sweep nurbs and just lower them on the Y axis. You can use spline dynamics is you go the sweep nurbs route for added realism, but I don't you'd need that.