Hello you beautiful people,

For my project I'm trying to build a good rope swinging mechanic.  Basically I have an actor in the world that serves as my hook point, and when the character is in range you can press left click and he sends out a rope that attaches to that actor.  Below is an …

@jak6jak Sorry, my net was down - and I was too busy to fix it, both at work and here fixing bugs. Anyway. Almost like you said, but better written in dv/dt form, like dv/dt=a, where 'a' is the acceleration (F/m). Solving this finding v(t), and next integrating to get the position deltas is the key…

RulerOfNothing said:
and not equal in magnitude to the gravitational force when the bob is at the bottom

How is that? If the pendulum starts vertical,the acceleration should be zero, shouldn't it? 

This happens only if either the tension force and gravitational force cancel each other out .. or i…