Help Is there a way of obtaining the 'tension' and streching of a rope

[danik9]

I want to have a crane that get certain behavior once a tension threshold is certain amount.

On top of that I want the motor that retract or extend the rope to sound like its making more effort depending on the tension amount.

Is this achievable? if so, how? 

Best regards,
Daniel.

[josemendez]

Hi,

You can measure strain: the amount of stretching caused by tension, which is the rate of current length vs length at rest:

Code:

Code:

float strain = rope.CalculateLength() / rope.restLength;

Strain will be >1 when the rope is stretched, <1 when compressed, 1 when exactly at rest.

kind regards,

[danik9]

Works great! exactly what we needed! 

Cheers!