rope elongation

[VanDelayyyy]

hi..

I have a moderately heavy object on the end of a length of rope and when it swings the rope elongates. Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of elongation (other than reducing the weight of the object :>)? I'm using 16 iterations for the rope currently.

thanks!
VanDelayyyy


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[Nathanael]

What's really important is the mass ratio between the rope and the body, so you can increase the rope mass to improve stiffness, and/or iterations, (rope are fast to solve, try 32).

Hope it help,
Nathanael.

[VanDelayyyy]

Thanks.. it seems to work ok if i tweak it as you suggest, though the overall level of tweaking is increased because the movement of attached components is affected by the rope mass.


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