Non-uniform particle distance

[chenji]

Hi!

This can hardly be considered "non-uniform particle distance" the way you described it in this thread: inter-particle distance doesn't depend on any useful metric like distance to camera, rope curvature, etc and the rope isn't dynamically resampled. The cursor merely extends the length of the last element as a last resort when it can't create new ones because it has completely depleted the particle pool.



A larger particle pool will allow you to have longer ropes without running into the need to extend the length of the last segment, which almost always gives weird results (as a single element can't bend, it is just a straight line. The ability to bend comes from having multiple, equally long elements). Ideally, ropes must have equal inter-particle distance for proper simulation, so it's in your best interest to have a sufficiently large pool.

kind regards

Considering my game is a first person fishing game, I can set the cursor mu to a point far way from the player so he cannot see that long straight line segment. This is very like the "LOD" I'm looking for. Good performance as little particles used. Besides the visual bending problem, is there any known physics problem when using little pool size?