Help for Rope class

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Hi,
I am rendering ropes with the class of Rope from direct.showutil.Rope.
I noticed that there are some models we need to set:

like self.KPoint = loader.loadModel(“models/egg.egg”)

I would like to know if I can use CollisionCapsule as the section of a rope, for I can not find the egg file related to CollisionCapsule.
Thanks a lot.

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I can’t answer the first part of the question–whether a capsule can be used as a Rope’s model–but I believe that I can answer the second–why it is that you’re not finding a model-file for the capsule.

Simply put, that’s because a CollisionCapsule isn’t a model–it’s a mathematically-defined volume, if I’m not much mistaken. I daresay that this is because it should be rather faster to detect collisions with such a volume than a similarly-shaped 3D model.

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Thank you for response, yes, CollisionCapsule is a separate class, and my question is how to generate a rope with this class, I can render a rope with other models like the egg, but it looks not good as a cylinder section.
Is there any example on using CollisionCapsule? actually I feel hard to find more examples even on the class Rope…
Thanks again.

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Check out this link: Collision Solids — Panda3D Manual.
You can also see this link: Lesson 6 | Panda3D Beginner’s Tutorial, where it explains how to use the CollisionSphere and CollisionCapsule. (It will show CollisionTube instead of CollisionCapsule as CollisionTube is an old name for the CollisionCapsule)

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Thank you very much, I will look into that.