Filo

Cable-driven machinery for Unity

Filo is an advanced yet easy-to-use cable simulation system, aimed at simulating cable-driven devices.

Compared to more traditional cable/rope simulators, Filo has some key advantages:

Performance does not scale with cable length, but with the amount of objects in contact with the cable.
Supports very high mass ratios.
Adaptive rendering.

Here's a table comparing Filo and our other rope/cable simulator, Obi Rope:

	ObiRope	Filo
Performance	O(# particles in the cable)	O(# of bodies in contact)
Scalability	Relatively simple systems	Highly complex multi-cable systems
Max. mass ratio	1:10	1:1000
Dinamically resizable	Yes	Yes
Torsion resistance	Yes (Obi Rod)	No
Self-collisions	Yes	No
Tearable	Yes	No