Hi,
I’m currently making a poppy playtime grabpack and i came across a very important obstacle which is making the cable physics, for example: making the cable wrap around a wall instead of phasing through it.
I’m using a rod constraint as a placeholder for now because i didn’t know how to go about making the cable physics.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
You’d have to find a way to detect when the cable touches something.
The way I would approach this… I would create the cable by splitting it into smaller sections of rope connected together by masslesses spheres that collide with the walls??
this would work better with low gravity aswell
The most simple solution I can come up with is with continuous raycasts.
Raycast every single frame, when you can no longer raycast towards the hand in a direct line of sight you can split the cable in 2 and raycast from the point where it splitted recursively.
The whole basics of it is simply doing straight-line checks recursively.
When the cable gets stuck on a corner or a pole, you change the raycast point while also checking whenever the player comes back around the pole to release the arm again once more.
It works perfectly! Thanks for you help.
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