How Can I Make An Actor Collide With Another Actor Without It Bouncing?

FallingBoxStudios

basically what I'm trying to ask is how to make an actor collide with out bouncing, I have set my character to walk, but I have made 2 actors (walls) to accelerate towards the character, so if the character does not do… (can't share the story with everyone ) in time the walls crash him, I have made the walls collide with the character, and I have set the walls to fixed rotation and 0 bounciness, but my character can still bump into the walls and the walls will bounce away, I want them to collide with him,but they still continue moving towards him, so he can bounce off them but he can't move them, please help me. Thanks - Hunter

matarua

Simple rule could work - if greenWall collides with blueGuy change attribute self.Linear.Motion.X to 0

Otherwise

Accelerate at #.

FallingBoxStudios

@matarua but I don't want the character to stop moving, I just want the walls to keep moving towards him even if he touches them,

KevinCross

Have you got the collide/bounce behaviour on the walls? If so, remove it.

matarua

They do with that rule - they just get paused for a 0.03 of a second, then continue.

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross so put it only on the character?

KevinCross

Yes, if you only want the character to bounce.

matarua

I made a simple example that does exactly what you ask for...

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross it still did not work

@matarua thanks for creating the template but the walls still push away if you push the character against the walls for a couple seconds

KevinCross

The other thing to try is switching off Movement which can be found under Physics on your wall actor(s). You should still be able to move it but it stops it from being affected from physics (although removing the bounce behaviour from the wall should have sorted it).

Please accept that I'm not near a copy of GameSalad to check it so I could be making all of this up

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross sure I understand but turning off movable stops it from moving completely

matarua

In the physics something has to give - it's like when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. Who wins? Nobody as the clock loses. You would have to put a rule in to stop the wall at some point. Seems going to the left wins with different actors which is interesting as they have exactly the same values reversed.

It's a tug of war that's a push of war. It just needs some logic to turn if off and on at the right times

FallingBoxStudios

@matarua Okay then, thanks for the help I will play around with your template and see if I can make it a bit more like it needs it to be, Thanks

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Increase the density of the walls.

FallingBoxStudios

@FryingBaconStudios THANK YOU SO MUCH! it worked

The_Gamesalad_Guru

That's why I'm the self proclaimed Gamesalad Guru

DestinyX

I believe there is a attribute under each character called bounciness and just set the value of that to 0 on both actors that are colliding.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

That won't help as collisions will still move the actors but not bounce. Density determines how much force is needed to displace an actor. Setting the density higher than another object means the object of the lighter density needs more force to move the other.

FallingBoxStudios

@FryingBaconStudios Just wondering, does turning up density make it buggy to play? if I turn the density up to 10,000 will it effect the gameplay?

KevinCross

Try it