Ok If I was you I would just animate this traditionally there is no way you will ever achieve predictable results with reactor for that kind of thing. You will have to do like 100 simulations for you to get something that doesn't end up wrapping around the guys head and then you will probably end up tweaking it for ages.

Your best bet is to only use reactor for ragdoll effects and object collisions.

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I agree with jamie. Keyframe animation would be a lot less hassle and a better result.

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that makes sense, mmm and there is a way to move easily the flail?
because moving chain by chain will look terrible

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Wazaap

If you really want to do it with reactor you can, but as Jamie said, it will be hard to get good results. I whipped this up fairly quickly and should get you started but you'll need to fo a fair bit of tweaking before you get it right.

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As you can see from the end it's not that perfect

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what codec you used on the video?, i can see it

i dont have problems moving it manually, but i need something to move it easily

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Wazaap

Sorry, it's the techsmith screen capture codec.

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wow, looking that i think that would be really hard to make a long flail moving like i want

but thanks for that example, helps a lot to understand reactor

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Wazaap

Give it a try and have a play around with the settings. It doesn't take long to set up - what have you got to lose?

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