Need physics size adjusting and shortucts

[SpiderMack]

You can't adjust caspule height and diameter ?

[SpiderMack]

Select entity Action or Lua in "Properties", press "Delete" key to remove the Action.
Faster, no need to open Action Editor

[SpiderMack]

Need to quickly access views like Unity do with gizmo Arrows and cube.
It's too long to adjust objects positions moving camera around left, right, top, front, back, down.

[SolarPortal]

That looks like a capsule rigidbody, for characters try adding a Simple Character controller action which has full adjustments.
If you use the Player character controller, then you can wander around with your character pretty quickly, but has limited options whereas the SCC is open ended by using scripting to expand what your character can do.
Use the character.library() in lua to control this action.

As for the action delete speedup... valid idea

Pointing a camera at a source is quite awkward, and we were going to add a handle to the camera which you could position to where you want to look.
As for the different angles like front, back, top, bottom, back.. This is similar to 3dsmax with their cube. We do have the options in the last block on the top right bar in the overlay of the scene, you can change between the different angles but is slow to get to, plus with the current camera errors, we are unsure if it would work as expected.

[SpiderMack]

[SpiderMack]

[SolarPortal]

The rigidbody action does not have adjustable sizes. what it does is takes the bounds and radius of the object and creates a hull based on that scale. This usually works fine for simpler shapes, but we can understand your issues with a capsule on a static object as we just gave it go.

May i ask what you trying to apply the capsule too mesh wise and why? These are times we usually just use convex hull or worse ........... mesh physics .. .. dun dun dun!!!!

[SpiderMack]

You have some detailled model where shape looks like capsule, auto detect mesh size and bounds is not what you want sometimes, sometimes need to adjust manually and more precise capsule size and radius.
why can't override automatic size detection and tweak it manually for Rigid bodies ? don't make sense.

You need fast physics.


What is convex ? What it does ? Can we tell how many polygons we want for convex collision ?

[SolarPortal]

What you are showing there is what is known as compound shapes where you use multiple shapes to create one physics actor.
We have been wanting an editor for this for ages, but it has been a low priority as many didnt need it for their purposes.
Again, it can be added to the list and planned into the dev cycle.

Convex hull will wrap the object in the lowest polys possible but as the name suggests, it can only create faces that are convexed on the model and will skip all concaved surfaces.

The link you gave me yesterday to the mesh decomposition shows an example of the convex hull physics compared to the mesh decomp.

[SpiderMack]

[SolarPortal]

When we mean low priority, we mean that our userbase has not required it as most of modders/ hobbyists that enjoy working the software and the simple physics is all they have needed up til now. However, it doesnt mean the feature you suggest is not important for full game design,just that is hasnt been required yet!

leave it with us and we will see what we can do

[SpiderMack]

[SolarPortal]

[SpiderMack]

30 minutes to tweak manually values and test a character physix capsule collider in Skyline, 1 minute in Unity workflow to get it right.
3:40 collison edit

[planetX]

[TattieBoJangle]

A lot of it is just taking your time and getting to know the engine as you can get a character in and fully working in a few min

[epsilonion]

I have to agree with the guys on this one, a few mins is all that is needed to get a character in and tweaked but then again I am used to the work flow.