Thank you Sassi, those are both great solutions! Thanks again so much!

Hello Sassi!
I'm coming back to this topic because I realized I needed to approach it slightly differently, but I'm getting stuck. I tried using your shrinkwrap approach, which is really great, but somehow it doesn't seem to work on this geometry.
I have two "rods", and I want the cylinder to "wrap" them both as if it was in tension between the two rods.
What I am getting is a strong "pinching" between the outer rod (thin one) and the inner rod (wide one). Do you see what I mean? I would like it to look as if the piece of "fabric" was in tension between the outside and the inside "frames"...
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kcx6ctxwmv9d5xcw20gl3/DrapingTechnique.c4d?rlkey=tii3vudm2mti5dvxa3tut6fg4&dl=0

Thanks for any suggestions!

Hello Sassi

This is great, the PolyFX trick works really well.
But I think the Shrink Wrap is actually even more flexible, even if it becomes harder to create procedural setups where they would overlap?
When you say combining Project and Thicken, do you mean Shrink Wrap and Thicken?

Thanks again!

Hello Sassi
Thank you for this. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work because what I am trying to achieve is for the wrapping to happen around each "segment" of the tube.
See this screenshot : https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ay8vsrysa244dr7qryedu/Cinema_4D_UDhSaM05yE.png?rlkey=fn10sca2oktmnnccumtfh3g9y&dl=0

What would be a good way to achieve this? Should I "hide" certain polygon selections? Or do I need to cut the frame up into smaller pieces?

Thanks!

By the way, this was the video that was originally shared on Cineversity (thank you Sassi!)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qmf7uskrhs62muw2thhru/Rubberbands.mp4?rlkey=6yria9353a0pu2ii7rqzsw82r&dl=0

This is roughly the effect I want, except that in the end I will want it to look as if a single seatbelt was wrapped around the whole frame, but I can cheat that with a series of loops

Hello
I'm trying to achieve an effect where I have straps (width of a seatbelt) wrapped around the frames that are in the linked file below.
I tried a technique I had learned from a previous post on the old Cineversity where splines are projected onto the geometry.
The problem I'm having is thaţ the splines are projecting onto the whole geometry, not just the top part.
The general goal here is to have the impression that a strap is completely wrapped around the whole frame, but I was going to go loop by loop as I can't think of a way to create a single wrap around everything...

Here is the file
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/89l7503w1ulgjx3alra1u/NicolasCar_Cineversity.c4d?rlkey=jqygn1eyx6vkrhhjwiu6cc196&dl=0

Thanks for any tips!

Hello, is there a way to find the old forum posts? I am looking for something you helped me with a while ago regarding wrapping splines on an object, but I can't seem to find any way to access these older posts?

Thank you!

Amazing! That works so well and so smooth! Thank you very very much for guiding me through this, as always.

Hello again!
I just tried this with the setup I'm trying to create, and I'm pretty sure I followed your method, but somehow the dynamics don't seem to want to kick in.
Is there something wrong in my setup?
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9unjqt620m35za444588q/CloneTest.c4d?rlkey=z57fzjbqw3ujtu4weesd50jai&dl=0
Thanks!

Got it, understood. Thanks Sassi! That makes sense.