how to make a chain ?

diegocs

i want to make a chain out of many round actors but how to i make them "stick" and act like a chain?

Photics

You could constrain their position relative to the previous actor... based on rotation and cos/sin... but wow... that could be pretty laggy and tedious to set up.

jonmulcahy

It's impossible at this point, you need joints which are not coming out till later in the year

diegocs

isn't there a way to make a deathworm type character?

jonmulcahy

diegocs said:
isn't there a way to make a deathworm type character?

See my comment above

Photics

jonmulcahy said:
It's impossible at this point, you need joints which are not coming out till later in the year

Why's it impossible? An actor could be constricted to a circular path of an actor. That could be expanded to a series of actors.

I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'm not sure that it's not either. If the hero actor jumps on the chain, that becomes the controlling link. The ones below just swing with gravity. The ones above follow the leading chain.

jonmulcahy

Its impossible in the sense no game would be playable once implemented. It's technically possible with a busload of math and constraints, but the overhead on the system would crash the app. Someone tried to do it a year or so ago and it failed miserably.

scitunes

if you are talking about super mega worm you could buy darren's snake template. It might give you what you are going for.

Asymptoteell

It is definitely possible (I got this working for 2 (connected with a third) actors), but yes, it does ruin memory.

diegocs

scitunes said:
if you are talking about super mega worm you could buy darren's snake template. It might give you what you are going for.

if you could send me a link to that template it would be awesome. yeah i want a snake type thing not a chain, that was what i was going for.