VICODynamics: a particle based Soft-Body physics Plugin

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@OptionalSteve;687190

Yes it is, that looks great! Again, thank you for making this happen for me, it’s a huge help.

This is off topic from what we’ve been discussing, but as I’ve been working with the rope system I’ve had a few feature ideas. These ideas are really sort of unimportant, so just throwing them out there:

For one, it would be cool to be able to attach ropes together. I really like how you can specify in the attachment properties of a rope which particle is attached to an arbitrary actor, it would be cool if you could specify another particle in another rope with this system.

And two, I noticed above someone asked for GPU particles. Would it be possible to use PhysX Flex particles for this purpose? I’ve worked with Flex before, and while the collision handling and performance is impressive, it lacks the robust features of the Vico system. Flex is open source and uses the UE4 cable component as a model for their Flex rope component, this could perhaps be a good reference for implementing Flex into other systems. Flex is integrated into UE4 on this custom branch of the engine.

Great! That is pushed to the Feature-Update-2 branch already.

Regarding attaching two Ropes/clothes or rope and cloth: Yes! This is doable internally already by manually setting up constraints. I will be adding easier/convenient ways soon. The only thing I need to figure out is how to handle the rendered geometry when two simulating objects are attached…

Regarding using FleX as the backend: This is interesting, though I have not taken a look into it or given it much thought to see how feasible it may be. Is FleX source available now? Last I checked it was only the UE4 FleX plugin that had source available.

Thank you for the suggestions!