Is this possible/easy to do? Physics-based zipline.

Unity Engine
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Hi, I apologize for the vague title but it is difficult to describe.

I am making a basic 3rd person platformer. I have a ring/torus-like gameobject but cubed. It is basically a doorframe - a cube frame with a hole in the middle. It has 4 box colliders in order to do collision around the hole in the middle. It has a rigidbody, too.

My character can pick it up. I want to be able to pick it up, put its hole in the middle through a long thin cube, and then slide down with the character. At the moment the frame will collide with/latch onto/stay on the ‘zipline’, but my character naturally falls down and doesn’t stay latched on.

What steps do I need to take to make it so my character doesn’t fall down?
So that the weight is supporting my character - so the character doesn’t fall down, stays latched onto the picked -up frame, which itself is latched onto a long thin cube/zipline.

In other words, I want to recreate this sequence from 0:45 to 0:52 in the following video:

Thanks.

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I have that package. The object that the character is holding is attached to the character using a physics joint:

They’re very useful

Edit: It’s a shame that the package is deprecated. It hasn’t been updated in many years but it still works in Unity 2019 just as well as it ever did.

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Thank you very much. After heavily researching joint physics, I was able to implement this functionality. :slight_smile: