Vertex Snapping And Rigid Body Placement

[Benton]

I think the editor needs:

 

Vertex Snapping - Object snaps to nearest vertex. Makes placing crates on floors for example, really easy.

 

Rigid Body Placement - This is an idea I though up. You make a static object a rigid body, for example a branch. The branch falls to the ground, positioned like it would be in real life. The object is then made a static object, but stays where it fell. It is a lot easier then trying to rotate the branch so it looks like it is lying on the ground.

 

Benton

[DigitalHax]

Vertex snapping - There is a grid snap already, but I think a vertex snap would be useful. But it could be in L3D because it has CSG built in.

 

Rigid Body Placement - I really like this idea, but are you meaning in the editor? You could easily put a physics object in, then just set the mass to 0.

 

DH

[Benton]

Rigid Body Placement - I really like this idea, but are you meaning in the editor? You could easily put a physics object in, then just set the mass to 0.

 

I could do that, but if each object had physics, it would really effect framerates. This is only in the editor to place static objects.

 

So I drag the branch into the scene. It is hovering over the ground. I press the "Physic Align" button. It drops to the ground and when it stops moving it stops being a physic mesh.

[Daimour]

...but if each object had physics, it would really effect framerates.

All entities already have physics bodies. But they inactive until you set collision group or mass for them.

[Benton]

So no performance loss if I make them a collision group?

[Daimour]

Performance depends on bodies interaction mostly. The more interactions the more performance loss.

 

So no performance loss if I make them a collision group?

 

You may try it easily.