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Fattie
Fattie

Reputation: 12292

Unity3D, "knocked away" type light object?

In a Unity scene, imagine

in real life, the sticks would stand there (to begin with, this is annoyingly hard to achieve in PhysX actually), and when the large object hit them,

I have found this quite hard to do in Unity.

Normally you'd say: "give the large object a mass of a few thousand, and the sticks a mass of only 1 or 2 kg".

However I found that really doesn't work - the sticks DO tend to swirl the large sliding object around.

And if you set the angular drag of the large object high, that's not then what you want for it's other behaviors.

In the first instance I made the sticks kinematic (so they would stand up without falling over) and then when the large object whacks it ..

protected void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collisionInfo) {

    rb.isKinematic = false;
}

Perhaps the only way to do this is

How to do this in the Unity/PhysX milieu?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 214

Answers (2)

Fattie
Fattie

Reputation: 12292

I did have great success "Booming" the pencil objects manually. As it may help someone, here's how.

As usually you'd have a separate trigger underneath the object on the appropriate layer:

public class BoomableTrigger : MonoBehaviour {

    public Boomable tell;

    protected void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {

        tell.Triggered(other.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity);
    }
}

Then, to really "throw" it the hell forwards in a humorous way when your vehicle hits it ..

public class Boomable : MonoBehaviour {

    Rigidbody rb;
    // obvious setup not shown ..

    public void Triggered(Vector3 vehicleVelocity) {

        // (very likely tell your networking this happened ...)
        DoBoom(vehicleVelocity);
    }

    public void DoBoom(Vector3 vehicleVelocity) {

        // assume we are being hit by a large vehicle

        rb.isKinematic = false;

        // make it spring forwards humorously

        rb.velocity = vehicleVelocity * Random.Range(1f,3f);

        // and make it "snap-fall, forwards" ...

        Vector3 worldLeftwards =
           Vector3.Cross(vehicleVelocity, Vector3.up).normalized;
        rb.angularVelocity =
           worldLeftwards * -1f * Random.Range(5f,50f);
    }

That gives it a real Buster Keaton snap-fall, it "flies away" off the vehicle once the vehicle smacks it.

Experimentation showed for a nice comic effect, as well as throwing it forwards (the first clause), you really need to make it "fall forward" which takes a bit of vectoring.

It's not totally clear why it wouldn't just work naturally in PhysX as in @obywan's answer, possibly the kinematic flip. But if you have to do it that way this will work nicely.

Upvotes: 1

obywan
obywan

Reputation: 864

(Converting my comment to an answer)

Small objects will affect large object in real life, but just slightly (so maybe there are too many sticks?). Or maybe the problem is in the way sticks are stuck into the ground? I've created test scene with cube (1000 kg) and some cylinders (1 kg). All objects are just standing freely on the ground. Here what it looks like when the cube hits cylinders: enter image description here

Upvotes: 5

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