Marcousik Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Hello, Is it possible to create for example a compound torus and give it a mass without that it falls through the map ground ? thx for help with this... The problem for me is that the shapes are giving only to he childs-segment so that giving a mass to the parent makes it falls through the map-ground..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macklebee Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 If you give the individual segments mass, then it the compound shape will fall apart due to gravity. If you do give the individual segments mass, then just set their collision type to Prop and that should prevent them from falling through the terrain/ground that has a collision type set to Scene. It doesn't appear that you can make the compound objects stay together and have mass inherently. You can give just the parent object in the scene panel mass, but it doesn't make the object non-static. I don't know if this is just an oversight on Josh's part or if this was intentional. Quote Win7 64bit / Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.9 GHz / 16 GB DDR3 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 LE / 3DWS / BMX / Hexagon macklebee's channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcousik Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 Thx I was thinking this too. "You can give just the parent object in the scene panel mass, but it doesn't make the object non-static." That's not complet true; if you add the parent object a mass and each segment an empty script, it will makes the torus static and stay together BUT falling through the ground... I think it's due to no existing single shape for compound model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macklebee Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 "You can give just the parent object in the scene panel mass, but it doesn't make the object non-static." That's not complet true; if you add the parent object a mass and each segment an empty script, it will makes the torus static and stay together BUT falling through the ground... true - not had full cup of coffee yet. hmmm 1 Quote Win7 64bit / Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.9 GHz / 16 GB DDR3 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 LE / 3DWS / BMX / Hexagon macklebee's channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macklebee Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 The only thing I can suggest is to fake it by making a cylinder or other primitive the same shape at the same location, use the invisible.mat on it, set its mass, and set its collision type to prop. The parent compound object should have its collision type set to none, and the individual segments have no mass, collision type set to none, and an empty script attached. Then make the parent item of the compound object a child of your invisible primitive object. Quote Win7 64bit / Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.9 GHz / 16 GB DDR3 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 LE / 3DWS / BMX / Hexagon macklebee's channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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