Making a free-falling chain

[swag]

Greetings,

I have managed to model a chain but I am interested in making it dangle like it would on a flail (in the GE idealy). Any ideas?

Of course it’s important that the links don’t clip each other.

[z3r0_d]

you’re going for too much detail. A chain is one of the tests that people test physics engines with, and with any reasonable amount of detail [or any reasonably not tiny timestep] the chain will come apart.

That and doing collision detection on triangle meshes is SLOW [and almost always buggy].

if the chain will not be the ONLY thing shown, you’re much better off finding a workaround that looks reasonable.

[swag]

you’re going for too much detail. A chain is one of the tests that people test physics engines with, and with any reasonable amount of detail [or any reasonably not tiny timestep] the chain will come apart.

That and doing collision detection on triangle meshes is SLOW [and almost always buggy].

if the chain will not be the ONLY thing shown, you’re much better off finding a workaround that looks reasonable.

Ok, I figured that would be the case. Any ideas for a decent work around?

[pctopgs]

are the links one big mesh or differnt meshes put together?

[z3r0_d]

http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch22s03.html#id4954345

however, I’m not sure if you can animate the path moving and have the chain pieces foloow corect

[swag]

Well this problem seems to be too hard, especially to implement in the GE. So unless I want a static flail, I’ll just stick to a mace. Thanks for the advice anyway.