Tension setting for ropes?

[BadlyCroppedFish]

Is there a way to make my ropes tighter? The rigging on my ship is far to floppy, the ropes too loose

[Personaggio]

+1 on this one

[zuiquan12]

Bumping this to show my support. A slider that controls tension is definitely needed for the ropes. They are waaay to loose currently.

[Nhalok]

I put some anchors on a compact rail which allowed me to get a bit of tension. I agree wholeheartedly though, it would be great to have it built in. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014104769/screenshot/776239797652422897

[Overland]

Agree, they look bad on trains draging, its all a great step forward but needs refinement

Thanks stormworks team though, I do appreciate all youve done to make the game THE physics sandbox to play

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Technically you could do this by putting one of the end points on something that can bend to draw the rope taut, but obviously this isn't ideal in all scenarios. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to implement a rope length adjustment under its options.

[sparks567jh]

same, a tightness setting would be epic. i tried using winches but they just derped off and made it worse, i used a threshold microcontroller but nope.

Originally posted by Ra-Ra-Rasputin:

Technically you could do this by putting one of the end points on something that can bend to draw the rope taut, but obviously this isn't ideal in all scenarios. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to implement a rope length adjustment under its options.

Originally posted by Nhalok:

I put some anchors on a compact rail which allowed me to get a bit of tension. I agree wholeheartedly though, it would be great to have it built in. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014104769/screenshot/776239797652422897

i could try but i dont know if there is enough room. i am currently finishing off a pocket u boat i made.

[XLjedi]

I think it's an "elasticity" setting as opposed to tension. Granted, semantics a bit...

With a value between zero (steel cable) and one (rubber band). In your case you'd adjust the value until you had the slack you want. If left at zero it would be a laser-beam guy wire for your tensioned steel cable.

This way I wouldn't have springy cables for cranes bouncing loads around in mid-air. If the line just had "tension" it might revert back to it's rubber-band qualities if not tethered on both ends.

I want a steel cable (with near zero elasticity) for cranes and helos that doesn't stretch and bounce around under load like a rubber band.

[izmebee]

the strongest cable ever made is turned elastic when tension is applied.

Also I really like my inter-island slingshot transportation "device" and would mourn the loss of a cable I havent found a way to break yet.

[XLjedi]

Originally posted by izmebee:

the strongest cable ever made is turned elastic when tension is applied.

Also I really like my inter-island slingshot transportation "device" and would mourn the loss of a cable I havent found a way to break yet.

Maybe great if building a bridge...

Not saying the current springy-ness is lost. Maybe it's just the 0.50 or 0.75 setting and as you move to zero you get no elasticity.

[erffli]

winch

[Sunbeam115]

Originally posted by Ra-Ra-Rasputin:

Technically you could do this by putting one of the end points on something that can bend to draw the rope taut, but obviously this isn't ideal in all scenarios. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to implement a rope length adjustment under its options.

Thank you for this Idea, I always Use four anchors on all my ships I build, and I needed a way to tighten the anchors' ropes with out going over board with reeling them back in to tighten them, so once again, thank you very much kind person.