Non elastic rope

bhelial
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Non elastic rope

Post by bhelial »

Hi,

We are currently developping a race game. The player can grab trees thanks to a grapple. The grapple allows the car to turn easier. We tried differents constraints. We tried to use btPoint2PointConstraints but we have a problem. Our constraint is too much elastic while the cable length shouldn't increase in the game.

Is there a solution to create a non elastic and fixed length constraint with six degrees of freedom?
chunky
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Re: Non elastic rope

Post by chunky »

Is there a solution to create a non elastic and fixed length constraint with six degrees of freedom?
Don't you mean three degrees of freedom? The rope can't get longer or shorter along any of its axes, but it can rotate around all three. Perhaps a generic6dof joint with movements blocked but rotations allowed?

Gary (-;