how to make a chain ?

diegocsdiegocs Member Posts: 531
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
i want to make a chain out of many round actors but how to i make them "stick" and act like a chain?

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  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    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.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    It's impossible at this point, you need joints which are not coming out till later in the year
  • diegocsdiegocs Member Posts: 531
    isn't there a way to make a deathworm type character?
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    diegocs said:
    isn't there a way to make a deathworm type character?

    See my comment above
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    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.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    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.
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    if you are talking about super mega worm you could buy darren's snake template. It might give you what you are going for.
  • AsymptoteellAsymptoteell Member Posts: 1,362
    It is definitely possible (I got this working for 2 (connected with a third) actors), but yes, it does ruin memory.
  • diegocsdiegocs Member Posts: 531
    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.
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