Anchor angle messes the rope

[CraneMan1993]

Hey, awesome plugin!!! But I am new to this and struggling quite a bit.

After RopeAnchor angle is applied (box checked) in inspector, the sprite (or rigid body scene) attached to the anchor twists 90 degrees. And that messes up weight physics. Any idea what is the problem? Using Godot 4.6.1.

Also, i needed to add horizontal rope sprite instead of vertical, otherwise all rope segment rendered sprites were 90 degrees crossing the rope direction as shown in the second picture.

Cheers

[mphe]

1. Add an intermediate Node2D to the anchor and the sprite to the intermediate node. Then you can rotate the intermediate node to counteract the 90° turn.
2. Rotate your texture by 90°

[CraneMan1993]

So I tried what you wrote. After applying the rope anchor angle the anchor is forced 90 degrees to the left. Since that can't be changed (it imediately returns to 90 degrees), I rotated the anchors child Sprite2D and moved it so it would look visually in place.

That seems to work. Wonder if that will cause problems later on. But since collision shape can also be moved, it should work out fine.

[mphe]

Yes, that's how the anchor works. It snaps to the rope and rotates perpendicular to the rope's surface at that position. If you add children, they will inherit the same transformation. It shouldn't cause any issues in the future, there is really no difference if the sprite has additional transformation or not.
If you have only one child node like your sprite, it suffices to counter-rotate only that node. If you have multiple nodes it makes sense to use an intermediate node like I said before instead of rotating all of them manually.