Thank you all for the very nice comments. Really appreciated.
The blanket physics are actually dead simple if you're using the love.physics module.
All I did was creating a grid of CircleBodies and then linking each body with its four orthogonal neighbors using RopeJoints.
It was mostly a matter of tweaking linear and angular damping and body size until it felt nice.
You can pretty easily implement simple cloth physics yourself using Verlet integration (
this article is pretty good) but in this case having each body collide with each other was a nice way of preventing the blanket from otherwise folding up.
Germanunkol wrote:Did you try modifying the texture coordinates of the blanket mesh as well?
I think it looks a bit weird that the texture stays fixes when the vertecies move.
Making the texture stay in place was a very deliberate effect. We thought it made the blanket appear somewhat magic and looked pretty cool. Transforming and distorting very low-res pixel art also often looks rather bad.
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