I’ve downloaded http://ragespline.com/ as it was currently on sale and I’ve started replacing some of my Flash drawn assets with it:
It works great for easily adding physics to them – something I’d previously struggled with. I’m really happy with the look – especially as I just chucked all this in in a matter of minutes.
I’ve been messing about with rope physics but still not had much luck: I’ve tried the tutorial here http://www.unity3dstudent.com/2010/07/beginner-b11-basic-joints/ and while I got the physics working, they will need a lot of tweaking to be usable and I can’t seem to get it behaving anywhere near how I’d like for the kind of fluid moving rope I’m after.
I’ve also downloaded Rage Pixel seeing as it’s free: http://ragepixel.com/. It probably won’t be useful for this project but maybe for the next one!