Rope Simple

Overview

This component allows you to hang physics objects from a rope. You can link this rope to any position in your level, or another physics object using the Connected Body property.

This component makes use of Unity’s built-in Spring Joint component.

Setup

The object you wish to hang must have a RigidBody component on it.

  1. Create a new object and make it a child of the object you wish to hang.
  2. Select Add Component in the Unity inspector and add the RopeSimple component to your new object.
  3. Create a new object and drag it to the position your rope will attach to in the world.
  4. Assign this new object to the Target Anchor field.

Component Properties

Field Description
Target Anchor A transform referencing the position that this rope will link to.
Spring Joint  
Spring The force used to keep the rope at its maximum length.
Damper How much force should be applied to slow the ropes swinging.
Min Distance How low the distance can be between the hanging object and the anchor point.
Max Distance How great the distance can be between the hanging object and the anchor point (relative to starting point).
Connected Body The rigidbody linked to this ropes spring joint. 1
Rope Mesh  
Radius Controls the radius of the generated rope mesh.
Tiling Offset The vertical tiling to be applied to the generated rope mesh’s material.
Material The material to apply to the generated rope mesh.
Audio  
Effect Id The EffectData ID to use for this rope. 2
Audio Min Force The lower range for the force used when calculating the effect intensity.
Audio Max Force The upper range for the force used when calculating the effect intensity.
Audio Min Speed The lower range for the speed used when calculating the effect intensity.
Audio Max Speed The upper range for the speed used when calculating the effect intensity.

Notes

• Audio Effect

When the SimpleRope’s rigidbody is not sleeping, it will play the effect referenced by Effect Id.
The intensity of this effect is calculated by the amount of force stretching the rope, multiplied by the velocity of the hanging object’s rigidbody.

  1. This property is used only when linking your rope to another rigidbody. Otherwise you may leave this field blank. ↩

  2. The base-game effect ID for this is RopeSqueak. ↩