VICODynamics: a particle based Soft-Body physics Plugin

[VICOGameStudio]

Feature Update 2 build has just been sent to Epic!

And here is a small shot of what will be shown off next week:

And it is live! Feature Update 2 is out! Check out the first post for a rundown and a Showcase video showing off some of the awesome new features in this update.

[Gomo]

Does Ropes support two way collisions? For example if I want to make walkable ropes which bends beneath character.

[VICOGameStudio]

Does Ropes support two way collisions? For example if I want to make walkable ropes which bends beneath character.

Yes, it does support two-way collision. However, in this case where a character, assuming ACharacter base, is used it will not work as desired because ACharacter uses PhysX SceneQueries to fake its "physics" interactions in the level. And because the rope is not a PhysX rigid body, ACharacter will completely ignore it. What you could do, and I'll test this as well, is have the rope(s) support static mesh "planks" and have the ACharacter walk on them. This should transfer the forces correctly between the two systems.

Hope that helps

[Gomo]

Thanks fo answer.
I've already implemented plank-based ropes, so I'll have to think if it is some advantage to use additional solution.

[ChopinDev]

Hi. Is there a way to record a rope in a sequencer as an animation?

[VICOGameStudio]

Hi. Is there a way to record a rope in a sequencer as an animation?

Do you mean record the simulated particles once and playback in sequencer? If so, that is certainly something that I'd be interested in adding! I had an additional request to allow for recording the simulation per-component and being able to play it back at runtime for cinematics.
Will definitely be looking into both of these features!

[Baskiatt]

Hi.

Before all, congrats for this plugin. It is really amazing .

I have a question about collisions. I need to know the hit points with the rope. Is there a way to get them?

Thank you very much.

[ChopinDev]

Do you mean record the simulated particles once and playback in sequencer

I will explain why this could be useful. In my case I have a very small scale, the rope is 1 unreal unit in diagonal, in order to simulate collisions very precisely I had to enhance drag coefficient - it obviously slows down the rope movement, but if recorder by sequencer, it could be played with higher anim rate.

It could be a killer for predefined animations, both for precision and performance cost (just anim).

[VICOGameStudio]

Hi.

Before all, congrats for this plugin. It is really amazing .

I have a question about collisions. I need to know the hit points with the rope. Is there a way to get them?

Thank you very much.

Thank you!

It is coming in the next patch! I think a week or so left, but will be on GitHub sooner.

[VICOGameStudio]

I will explain why this could be useful. In my case I have a very small scale, the rope is 1 unreal unit in diagonal, in order to simulate collisions very precisely I had to enhance drag coefficient - it obviously slows down the rope movement, but if recorder by sequencer, it could be played with higher anim rate.

It could be a killer for predefined animations, both for precision and performance cost (just anim).

Ah, interesting! Absolutely a niche but valuable use-case. I'll definitely be adding a way to do this soon. Thank you for the suggestion!

[Baskiatt]

Thank you!

It is coming in the next patch! I think a week or so left, but will be on GitHub sooner.

Thank your for your prompt answer

We are working on a Switch Project. Are you planning to give support for this platform in short terms?

Thanks again!

[VICOGameStudio]

Thank your for your prompt answer

We are working on a Switch Project. Are you planning to give support for this platform in short terms?

Thanks again!

I was waiting on 4.18 to wrap up the Switch testing due to an SDK bug fixed in 4.0, so I should have an early build soon.

[SmthAwful]

As promised here is my project where I used VICODynamics:

Forum Link:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm...a-gameplay-inc

And a gameplay video( at 7:30 you can see the plugin used ) :

https://youtu.be/nyxixamMgJA?t=451

Aiming:
https://media.giphy.com/media/14tCIqHhhCMncY/giphy.gif

Attaching and Balancing:
https://media.giphy.com/media/jwlKA9R1OO0fK/giphy.gif


Thank you for the support you gave me during the creation phase, VICODynamics!

[VICOGameStudio]

As promised here is my project where I used VICODynamics:

Forum Link:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm...a-gameplay-inc

And a gameplay video( at 7:30 you can see the plugin used ) :

https://youtu.be/nyxixamMgJA?t=451

Aiming:
https://media.giphy.com/media/14tCIqHhhCMncY/giphy.gif

Attaching and Balancing:
https://media.giphy.com/media/jwlKA9R1OO0fK/giphy.gif


Thank you for the support you gave me during the creation phase, VICODynamics!

Nice work, Emanuel! And thank you for sharing. Really happy to hear you got everything setup and working!

[VICOGameStudio]

Quick update: Work on Volume Constraints has begun, some test footage soon! And Switch support should be completely tested by next month, next month at the latest.