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Please add a OBJ to Collider feature so I can pre-make my colliders in blender without doing the work arounds I had to do with Leadwerks. It's really helpful for tubes and my button base model.

Everything else looks good though. 

You can open an OBJ file in the asset editor and create a convex hull from that, then save it to the file you want.

5 minutes ago, Josh said:

You can open an OBJ file in the asset editor and create a convex hull from that, then save it to the file you want.

I prefer that step is skipped. Also a "Load/Set Collider" option is missing. I don't want to rename/replace files because it seems like I'm "hacking" the system. 

There is a "browse" option in the collider drop-down, but you raise a good point. The current design follows how mesh materials and material textures work. With those items, there are multiple files that might be applied to one asset in one window. However, with colliders there is only one collider per model. So that might be a justification why a menu item for the window is the better option.

I'm dragging my feet on your request to load colliders directly from models because:

• Colliders loaded from models could be a Newton tree collision (mesh) or convex hull(s).
• Convex hulls have a tolerance value to control exactly how precise/detailed the hull is.
• Collision trees have an optimize parameter to control whether adjacent faces get merged.

These options are all available in the current interface. In order to support them in a model loading step, I would need to duplicate all this functionality in a new interface. It is strange to implement the same feature twice.

Wait, could it be possible to have this done as an editor addon? As an end user, I could probably write this if I know the needed functions are exposed.

I need it to do the following.

1. Load a model (OBJ, MDL, etc) from anywhere on the computer.
2. Set a "Target Model" for the new collider to be applied to.
3. Generate a collider from the polymesh. 
4. Save the collider to the disk and set the target model to it.
5. Disregard the OBJ. 

It's a little hacky, but it's much better than generating a throw way collider, importing a model just for the collider, and then renaming files so the game model loads the manual made collider. I only would need this for tubes and such. I also would need to know if I have the ability to edit the model file itself and not the current instance. 

Well, yeah, you can do pretty much anything as an extension.

So you are saying that if I was to choose one way to do this, you are usually loading mesh colliders (static), not convex hulls? 

10 minutes ago, Josh said:

So you are saying that if I was to choose one way to do this, you are usually loading mesh colliders (static), not convex hulls? 

I mean, I mostly need this to make concave collision meshes for things like door frames, tubes, and things like my button base model which are normally static objects. The convex hulls make what should be simple busy. 

Yeah, importing a collider separately is a good feature, leadwerks has a big problem with that

Okay, there's an update on 1.0.3 now. Let me know what you think.

Works as expected. Thanks.

 

Can we enable physics shape visualization from within code yet?

camera->SetDebugPhysicsMode(true);