How to Simulate Ropes And Cables In Unreal Engine 5

hey guys and welcome to another video so in this one we are going to look at how we can make a simple rope or a cable and also how to simulate physics to make it work like this so let's Jump Right In and get started [Music] there are a couple of things we should consider when we want to make ropes and cables scenario based on whether the simulation and physics are important for you or the graphics and how the look is your main goal you have to take different approaches to get the result you want in this video I'll cover the easiest way to make a rope and simulate physics without using any plugins and in the next videos we'll go over a couple of assets and plugins to make more advanced and complicated things in order to make a simple group all you need to do is to type cable here and drag the actor into the scene you can see that it already has the physics effect and here by selecting the components you can move the end location of your cable here you have some settings to play with for example let's increase the length and also increase segments to make it look smoother as you probably have noticed it's behaving like a bungee jumping band and in order to control that you can just play with this number here let's pump it up and now you can see that it's more stiff and does not stretch anymore another important section here is the cable render here you can play with the width of the cable and make it thinner or thicker here you can see that it only has four sides which does not look good and in order to fix that you can just increase the number of sides here in the cable rendering settings next we have toil material which helps us control the tiling of the materials on a rope let's assign a material to it and now you see that I can play with the toiling by just changing this number and I don't need to change the tiling in the material itself another cool thing we can do is to attach the start and end location to an object let's make two cylinders in our level to use them as some kind of a column and then attach or rope to them here I'm gonna put this third location on top of my first pillar and then I can choose an object for my end location let's select the cylinder and now you can see that it's attached to the object as I wanted here we have an offset so let's put it on zero and now you can see that it's actually connected to the pivot point of the object if you want to move it somewhere else for example at the top of the column you just need to offset it on the z-axis to achieve the exact location you want it to be connected to [Music] the last thing I want to mention here is the Collision option by checking this it will collide with the other objects in the scene and if you keep it unchecked it won't and will go through the objects in your level all right now let's go to the next part and make something cool with the cable we made we want to attach a sphere to the end point of the cable and then make it move when it's hit by your character let's drag your sphere into the scene and then assign a material to it to make it look more interesting then I'm gonna attach the end point of my cable to the sphere and then put this start point exactly above it [Music] then let's add the cube here to make it look like your holder and the final thing I need is a constraint physics actor so your top concentrate and drag it into the scene let's put it in the middle of the rope and then here let's choose the constraint actors actor one is the cube and the actor 2 is our sphere foreign now let's play the game and as you can see it's working perfectly it's simulating physics very well and that's how easy it is to make a simple drop in oreo the cable actor works very well and can be used in a lot of projects but it has its own limits and it does not give you complete control over the Rope in the next videos I'll go over a couple of plugins and blueprint assets and show you how you can make more advanced and complicated ropes and cable scenario thank you guys for watching and if you enjoyed the video please don't forget to leave a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel catch you later

Channel: Unreal ART With Alireza

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Length: 5min 18sec (318 seconds)

Published: Tue May 23 2023