Help Help with creating rope on runtime

[josemendez]

Awesome thanks for the quick reply and indeed got it all working now, is there a page that explains more about the Solver since I don't understand why it actually works now. I find the line 'rope.AddToSolver(null);' very confusing.

Hi,

There's a description of how the overall architecture is designed here:
http://obi.virtualmethodstudio.com/tutor...cture.html

Quoting the manual, here's what happens when AddToSolver() is called:

Now, the basic steps that take place when an ObiActor gets added to an ObiSolver are:

• ObiActor borrows a handful of particles from its ObiSolver, and sets their initial properties.
  
• ObiActor asks its ObiConstraints components to generate constraints of multiple kinds between these particles.
  
• In turn, each ObiConstraints component asks the ObiSolver to put these constraints in place
  

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So basically, you first tell the actor which solver will be in charge of managing it:

actor.Solver = solver;

Then, you can AddToSolver() (particles and constraints needed to simulate the actor are allocated by the solver) or RemoveFromSolver() (the actor particles/constraints are deallocated and returned to the solver pool).