Animate Soft Body Along Curve (Holding Form) I'm trying to animated a shoelace along a curve that spells out a word in cursive. I know the simplest way is to just keyframe an offset along the curve but I'd like to have the shoelace being a complete and wholly formed object rather than simply appearing out of nowhere.
My first thought was to use a soft body for the shoe lace (because if possible I'd like to keep a little jiggle and physics), and animate it along the path using hooks. I was going to put hooks at every major point along the curve and keyframe their strength so that as the soft body passed through each one, it would &quot;switch on&quot; and start holding that part in place until it forms the entire word.
Something tells me this isn't the most intuitive way to do it, though?
When using a [Curve Modifier] the curve can have 2 portions. That is a starting portion and a final portion.

The starting portion could be a wound up visual of the shoe lace or other artistic vision
the final portion can be the cursive words.

This may or may not suit your artistic needs.