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Tim McMurdo wrote:
> I am attempting to have a sail interact with a rope that is in front of it.
> When the sail billows out, I want it to press against the rope and billow
> around it. I have tried several sets of settings to no avail. The sail just
> billows through the rope and does not form around it.
First: wrong group, followup set.
> The sail is created with MechSim and is a 50x50 mesh. The rope is an Iso CSG
> cylinder.
>
> 1. Could the spacing on the masses in the mesh affect this? If the spacing
> on the masses prevents a sail mass from colliding with the rope?
Partly - only the masses are checked for collision with the environment
so the 'rope' has to be considerably thicker than the distance between
the masses in the sail.
> 3. Would I be better off creating the rope with masses and connections?
Probably, having the rope as a 'line' and the sail as a 'patch' will
make them interact correctly if you turn on mass-face-collisions.
> 4. Should the sail and each rope be placed in its own group?
This would make collision tests much faster.
Christoph
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