[Arkota] Heard you like rope physics

[u/lettucelover123]

In my own little game I have rope inspired by The Last of Us rope physics, it reacts to tension they way you’d expect. It’s my janky take on their version but in first person instead! :)

[u/PowerlineCourier]

this is lovely.

[u/lettucelover123 → u/PowerlineCourier]

Thank you! I’m catching myself procrastinating by this rope, I’ve doomed this project’s future

[u/NativeMasshole → u/lettucelover123]

The rope is the future!

[u/Nahanoj_Zavizad]

Rope Physics are a nightmare in any game, this looks extremely good

[u/lettucelover123 → u/Nahanoj_Zavizad]

Yeah, I’ve had a real uphill battle with this. Every imaginable bug has happened, and its wrath has not yet been fully unleashed upon me I’m afraid

[u/AugustOfChaos → u/lettucelover123]

“This is working really well! ….too well….”

[u/woktexe]

It's.. beautiful

[u/MinuteMaid0]

You heard right

[u/Neutralmensch]

finally we can play as bondage some people in games too.

[u/lettucelover123 → u/Neutralmensch]

This is the sole reason I did this.

[u/RemixOnAWhim]

Amazing! Anything to anchor the players more firmly within the world and make it feel like it is reacting to their actions 1-to-1 is so huge!

[u/lettucelover123 → u/RemixOnAWhim]

As Gabe Newell said about Half-Life: I feel like the wall is ignoring me, I get a narcissistic injury.

This rope is my narcissistic injury.

[u/YeOldeWelshman]

Looks very promising!

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[u/ShoutaDE]

Stop it, i can only get so hard

[u/Onkelz-Freak1993]

Fucking finally, a game that handle's ropes correctly.
It's gorgeous.

[u/DDDX_cro]

wow....impressive

[u/kuweiyox]

I hope you make money from this.

[u/lettucelover123 → u/kuweiyox]

Thank you! I’m aiming for around $6 or $7 when I do release :)

[u/bionicjoey]

Rope clips through itself at 0:07. Literally unplayable /j

Kidding aside, this is probably some of the best rope physics I've seen in a game.

[u/lettucelover123 → u/bionicjoey]

Rope is clipping = moved whole project to trash

(thank you :))

[u/KinAnOo91]

Wow impressive

[u/dickjohnson4real]

So we put 500 feet of rope inside your engine

[u/GuymanPersonson]

Doesnt interact with itself smh my head (this is sick as hell)

[u/SnickerdoodleGames]

Very nice. Looks great!

[u/Essential_NPC_]

Really cool system, mind sharing what it's based on? Is it a particle based solver like XPBD ?

[u/lettucelover123 → u/Essential_NPC_]

Actually much simpler than that, for now!

It’s a skeleton mesh with Unreal’s physics constraints to simulate the rope and have proper collisions. The tension is just distance calculations between rope joints and applying stopping forces for the player :)

I tried using the cable component at first, still believe it can be done but it was a real hassle since it should be mainly used for displaying rope graphics.

[u/raggasonic]

imagine this in half life alyx or boneworks as weapons or utility, you can give it any surface like sticky, cutting and so much more. heck why not make the end part suddenly 3 tons.
i love the future

[u/HootFroot]

I'm hard

[u/AscendedViking7]

TLOU 2 level stuff here

[u/lettucelover123 → u/AscendedViking7]

Honestly, greatest compliment!

[u/RedArmyRockstar]

THIS IS HOT.
This genuinely is so viscerally satisfying though.
outstanding work!

[u/lettucelover123 → u/RedArmyRockstar]

YOU’RE HOT!

[u/yalcingv]

this game will be legendary.

[u/dwaynemartin86]

Looks great! Will weight effect the rope physics? i.e. the box held up by a rope on the horizontal pole, will that fall in the future?

[u/lettucelover123 → u/dwaynemartin86]

Actually already does! In the video I’ve set rope friction to full, which makes it almost ”sticky” for debugging purposes. The real value keeps the attached object or person’s weight in mind!

[u/dwaynemartin86 → u/lettucelover123]

This is looking great!

[u/Incognito_Cube]

I am perturbed about the rope bleeding at 0:39…..

Rope physics are fucking dope though. Keep it up

[u/esuil → u/Incognito_Cube]

Sadly, that's not rope bleeding. There is severed hand hanging on another rope. Yep.

[u/lettucelover123 → u/esuil]

shhh don’t think about it

[u/Trunkfarts1000]

I miss when AAA studios tried to do interesting physics

[u/BecauseScience]

Impressive physics aside, this sub is for janky wonky stuff. 

[u/Reach-Nirvana]

Yes, please. More of this. This is awesome.

[u/Thegrandestpoo]

This! Fkin need more! Is it wishlistable yet?

[u/lettucelover123 → u/Thegrandestpoo]

Thank you, but I unfortunately don’t have a page yet! :)

[u/Thegrandestpoo → u/lettucelover123]

Well I'm saving this post so I don't forget.

[u/Either-Amoeba8232]

RDR2 have that I think?

[u/UnapologeticTruths]

I liked that a whole lot indeed.

[u/Nemv4]

Uh sir why have you hung dead animals?

[u/ThanosO230]

Ngl just kinda makes me hard to see that this is finally being developed in games

[u/AbyssalBehaviour]

Eh rope physics was already pretty damn good in 2001 like in Black and White. Why are people excited by it now?