How would I make a Physics based fishing rod?

[kweldev (kwel)]

I want to achieve making a Fishing rod bend like in Fishing Planet when theres something pulling on the line, I have no idea how to start.

I searched on the internet but have not found a clear answer. Any suggestions please?

[cakeycocoa (StarvinMarvin)]

Off the top of my head I can only think of using inverse kinematics to achieve this.

[cakeycocoa (StarvinMarvin)]

Also found this topic which might be useful:

How to make fishing rod bend based on weight for (Realistic Fishing Game)

I want to make a semi/realistic fishing game, similar to those such as fishing planet, Russian fishing, and call of the wild the Angler. What solutions have you tried so far? I have tried animating the pole but, it doesn’t account for fish size differences , plus its pretty time consuming. [image] Sorry for the bad example -tips for the fishing line is also welcomed, im thing of using beams, trails or rope constraints

[kweldev (kwel)]

Thank you for this, I’ll post some updates on how it’s going.

[kweldev (kwel)]

How would make the bezier curve move based on how much weight there is pulling on it?

[cakeycocoa (StarvinMarvin)]

I guess you’d want some sort of formula that takes in a number (weight) and positions the 3 points based off of that. Personally I have no idea how to do that since I’m not really a math guy.

Off the top of my head I’d say the higher the weight value the closer the 2 edge points are and obviously the middle point would be higher in that case as well.

[kweldev (kwel)]

I still can’t figure out how to get a fishing rod working with physics, mayby i should do something with bones? Do you have any ideas?

[kweldev (kwel)]

Does someone have any more ideas?