mGear-CUSTOM_chain_spring_gravity_01

[Milio]

Hi! I think this might be helpful to those who are not very technical (like myself!!)

I got this custom component based on the standard chain spring but replaced the spring nodes for gravity and exposed the parameters as attributes in the dedicated host.

I have been using it quite a lot and no problems so far. It is as easy as creating a spring chain but with gravity, ground plane collision and custom colliders.

For custom colliders you need to set it up within each node, adding the basic primitives to the colliders list/radius

You can download it from here, extract the zip contents to the shifter classic components and you should see it among the other shfter components.

GitHub - MilioSerrano/mGear-CUSTOM_chain_spring_gravity_01: mGear component,...

Hope you find it useful.

Cheers.

[Egawa]

I just started to get in touch with mgear and created this chain_spring_gravity_01 component using mgear 5.0.6 in maya2023. However, when I build it, it doesn’t generate bones. What’s the reason for this

[Milio]

You shouldn’t have any problems building. It is mostly the same component as the normal spring chain.
@Miquel integrated the component into version 5. You don’t need to copy anything from my GitHub; just use the one from the shifter.

[Milio]

Can you check if the node is compiled for Maya 2023 and actively working on your system? Open the node editor, press tab and type spring.

[Egawa]

I just checked and found that this node couldn’t be found in maya2023, but it’s normal in 2025 TAT

[Egawa]

I don’t quite understand scripts. Maybe you can know from this what caused it

[Milio]

if the node is not compiled for 2023, it wont be able to build, simply cant fid the node and fails. I’m using 2024 and the node is there, do you need to stick to maya 2023?

[Milio]

Im installing maya 2023 to have a look. I checked 2022 and the spring gravity, as expected is not compiled for this version.

[Milio]

Just checked no node compiled for it in 2023. So saly wont work unless mGear devs are compiling it for this Maya or older versions. 8-(

[Egawa]

I see. Thank you for your answer

[Miquel]

I will compile again for 2022 and 2023 the solvers in the next release