hi..
I have a moderately heavy object on the end of a length of rope and when it swings the rope elongates. Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of elongation (other than reducing the weight of the object :>)? I'm using 16 iterations for the rope currently.
thanks!
VanDelayyyy
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rope elongation
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Re: rope elongation
What's really important is the mass ratio between the rope and the body, so you can increase the rope mass to improve stiffness, and/or iterations, (rope are fast to solve, try 32).
Hope it help,
Nathanael.
Hope it help,
Nathanael.
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Re: rope elongation
Thanks.. it seems to work ok if i tweak it as you suggest, though the overall level of tweaking is increased because the movement of attached components is affected by the rope mass.
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