VRope 0.5

A simple rope system for cocos2d using Verlet Integration, based on examples by YoAmbulante.com.

VRope 0.5 for cocos2d 2.0 by Flightless. Used in the games Bee Leader (released in May 2012) and Bee Leader Free (released in August 2012) for iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch).

Update of VRope 0.3 for cocos2d 0.99.x by patrickC, posted on the cocos site at www.cocos2d-iphone.org/archives/1112.

Modifications:

added retina fix (tested on iPhone 4s and iPad 3)
added global gravity for points, making it easy to update gravity for the entire rope system
added individual gravity support for points, making it easy to update gravity for each specific point
added support to init/attach rope to a joint, rather than two bodies, allowing the rope to join away from body origins
supports cocos2d 2.0

TODO:

add nicer gravity variables to ropes and points, rather than using a global gravity hack in VPoint
remove references to older/deprecated cocos2d classes/methods, pre-cocos 1.x

Usage

Refer to VRope.h for more information and usage examples, including the original VRope 0.3 usage.

Create

// create joint between bodyA and bodyB
b2RopeJoint* bodyAbodyBJoint = (b2RopeJoint*)b2World->CreateJoint(&bodyAbodyBJointDef);

// create batchnode and vrope for joint
CCSpriteBatchNode *ropeSegmentBatchNode = [CCSpriteBatchNode batchNodeWithFile:@"ropesegment.png"];
[self addChild:ropeSegmentBatchNode];
VRope *verletRope = [[VRope alloc] init:bodyAbodyBJoint batchNode:ropeSegmentBatchNode];

// or, create vrope between bodies
VRope *verletRope = [[VRope alloc] init:body1 body2:body2 batchNode:ropeSegmentBatchNode];

Updating

// update vrope (like original VRope, without any changing gravity)
[verletRope update:dt];
[verletRope updateSprites]; // nb. doesn't need to be in draw loop (could be called internally)

// update vrope (using global gravity, nb. will affect all ropes!)
CGPoint newGravity = ccp(0.7f,0.7f); // update gravity to something else (based on your simulation, interactivity)
[VPoint setGravityX:newGravity.x Y:newGravity.y];
[verletRope update:dt];
[verletRope updateSprites]; // nb. doesn't need to be in draw loop (could be called internally)

// update vrope (example using gravity for specific ropes or points, the gravity component is preintegrated before being applied to points)
CGPoint newGravity = ccp(0.7f,0.7f); // update gravity to something else (based on your simulation, interactivity)
[verletRope updateWithPreIntegratedGravity:dt gravityX:newGravity gravityY:newGravity]; // update gravity for each rope (based on your simulation, interactivity)
[verletRope updateSprites]; // nb. doesn't need to be in draw loop (could be called internally)

nb. the example [verletRope updateWithPreIntegratedOriginGravity:dt] has gravity origin at (0,0) and uses an average of bodyA and bodyB positions to determine which way is 'down' for each rope. This was used in Flightless's game Bee Leader. Obviously, you can change this method or add others to suit your own simulation.

License

The original VRope 0.3 contained no licensing. This version of VRope uses the MIT License. We reserve the right to change this license based on any requests from the original author patrickC.

MIT License.

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