Help Fishing Pole/Line

[Natty]

Hi there!

The rope's path is just a bézier spline, like those you can find in Photoshop, Blender, or many other programs. Control points and tangent handles work in the same way too, shouldn't be too difficult to get the hang of it.

Can I help in any way? Maybe you can share your scene for me to take a look and guide you?

Hi Jose,

Thanks, yes looks like I'll need some guidance.  I was hoping I could sort of figure it out, but I don't have much experience with splines.  The rope is again very elastic, and I'm having trouble shortening it (see the drawing I did on the picture with the fishing line).

Ultimately, I am trying to have the fishing line short to begin, as this fishing pole will be equipped to the player's back, so I just want it to hang a little bit and be impacted by some physics while player is walking around.  When fishing, player should be able to cast out by applying physics to the ball and the rope should dynamically expand.

Here's some screenshots from test project.