How to make a slingshot rope (can be animated)

[octav20071 (OctaViano)]

Hello, today I want to show you how to do a slingshot rope. Not hard, but it is tricky. You can animate the tool too. So we are trying to do this:

Let’s begin!

Step 1

Create the handle for the slingshot. I am gonna use the letter Y because I can’t find any slingshot meshes without the rope built-in. You can customize it however you want.

Step 2

Next up we need the part that would be the launcher:

Step 3

Now we need to make the attachments. Put an attachment in the launcher, like this:

And then two attachments for each side of the slingshot. Don’t forget to name each attachment different:

Step 4

Insert two beams, doesn’t matter if the parent is the launcher or the slingshot, insert the texture id of a black image, (green, orange, what you like) and then set the TextureSpeed to 0. I then recommend to change the beam’s transparency to 0 and the Width0 and Width1 to 0.4. It should look like this:

Step 5

The model is done! Congrats! Now you can rig it, however you want, and animate it:

Hope you find this helpful if you’re making an FPS game, or just an advanced tool!

[Sir_Pixelated]

how do I rig? and isn’t is better to use rodconstaint than beams?

[octav20071 (OctaViano)]

To rig, you use a plugin. For the beam part, I thought it was the best

[Sir_Pixelated]

Can you tell me what plugin do I use?

[octav20071 (OctaViano)]

The plugin I use is this one, pretty helpful

[synical4 (Synical)]

@octav20071

insert the texture id of a black image, (green, orange, what you like)

Just a tip, you can leave the texture blank and color it using the color property. This way people have more customization of the colors rather than using an image