Actors Sensing Tension or Compression
DoMan
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A little physics question, how would you use an attribute to sense if an actor is being crushed, or compressed?
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Crush and compress are not standard attributes. Under normal circumstances you can check for 'is overlapping', or collides, but 'how stacked between' or the combination of 'weights' of objects of either side of an actor are things that you could do, but I think you could build the system up yourself. To do this you would have to pass information of any touches and 'size', 'weight', from connecting object and read them in the crushed object.
This question make me think that you have something in mind particular in mind? It would if you managed to build up the system, to make the 'crushed' object react- squash, moan, or possibly explode.
I've not seen a demo or example file that does the exact system you desire, but it would not have to be too difficult if you had only a target object that reacted and didn't return info. But like linked joint systems (that are not implemented yet but are on the roadmap), currently the return reaction from what happens to the crushed object (if you rely on the internal physics), can be haphazard and difficult to control. Not so much the contraction of a crush but any expansion from the crush as it would mean a size change in the crushed object that would need to push out, and this is hard to do as it would mean overlapping and not just colliding.
I hope this helps
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