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bacillus:
The problem then is that the plant structure would need to be made rigid and anchored (Ok, for now just use .fixpos) for this to work.Otherwise you end up with an algal blob desperately trying to grow up, king of like building a house with slime.
jknilinux:
--- Quote from: bacillus ---The problem then is that the plant structure would need to be made rigid and anchored (Ok, for now just use .fixpos) for this to work.Otherwise you end up with an algal blob desperately trying to grow up, king of like building a house with slime.
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Well, couldn't .stifftie keep it rigid as well, provided that the base was anchored somehow?
bacillus:
Assuming gravity is not a factor, which is not really realistic, the organism could be shaped simple by aiming the ties, yes. But with gravity, even with stiff ties (they never did anything for me), the plant will eventually topple without roots, unless it was conical in shape.
jknilinux:
--- Quote from: bacillus ---Assuming gravity is not a factor, which is not really realistic, the organism could be shaped simple by aiming the ties, yes. But with gravity, even with stiff ties (they never did anything for me), the plant will eventually topple without roots, unless it was conical in shape.
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I thought stifftie was meant to make both bots completely fixed relative to each other. So given a big base, a plant can grow upward w/o being cone-shaped, right? Or does stifftie do something else? I never found a good overview of it.
Either way, this brings up another good point. At the bottom of a sim we probably should have a super-high viscosity area(that acts like soil/crud at bottom of lake) for plants to have roots, create different niches for life, and make the sim behave more life-like in general.
Numsgil:
The physics probably aren't stable enough to build a large tower with gravity on. With it off you probably can, but what's the point
stifftie makes the tie have a stronger restorative force. If you're familiar with the equation for springs from physics F = -kx, stifftie modifies the k factor.
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