Flowing clothes (coded)

[Crossbones]

I'm trying to implement a way to get flowing hair/scarves/capes in my game that's independent of pre-drawn animations. I'm not even sure where to start.

I've seen great chain examples in the past, is that the principle I should start from? I'm just looking for a hand to get to a good conceptual starting point.

[MODule]

You should go with that. It's how the pros do it, afaik.

[Crossbones]

I've searched the forums and my hard-drive. I found the (amazing) spring-chain example by Walrus, but I can't wrap my brain around it . Besides, I'm not looking for elasticity for my clothes. I just need a "simple" rope-like effect.

Does anyone know of, or have an example of getting objects to dangle from a parent Active Object?

[Crossbones]

I moved on to code my platform engine, and mix together some music for my game, but...

I'm still stuck on getting a good chain effect for clothes/hair. I'm feeling pretty dull-witted not being able to plug it out myself, but I'm willing to put myself at the mercy of the community (again).

I think I'm savvy enough to not necessarily need an example, but any assistance is appreciated. Thanks!

[Sphax]

You should use Physix object.

[Crossbones]

<slaps forehead>

Hot-crossed buns, I should've thought of that. I'm going to look at the documentation now. Thanks, Sphax

[Random]

I've coded flowing hair once that (imho) looked pretty nice. But it only works on a small scale. Let's say 24x48 characters max.

[SEELE]

To remove/lower elasticity, you lower the over tho per pixel.

Basically you make the momentum of each object only relative to the object previous in the chain.

Good Luck.