Video Tutorial: Custom Collision Shapes using Physics Body Editor

Armelline

First of two videos, this one looking very briefly at how to use Physics Body Editor to import custom collision shapes into GameSalad.

Hopscotch

Thank you @Armelline !

iamcartez

Thank you so much for this video.

Socks

Great video, I got it working at last

Check out my ball and chain !! (attached).

Armelline

@Socks said:
Great video, I got it working at last

Check out my ball and chain !! (attached).

Awesome! Cut the Rope, here we come!

Socks

@Armelline said:

@Socks said:
Great video, I got it working at last

Check out my ball and chain !! (attached).

Awesome! Cut the Rope, here we come!

Exactly !

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Saved me some work! Thanks took the day off from videos.

Socks

@Armelline said:

@Socks said:
Great video, I got it working at last

Check out my ball and chain !! (attached).

Awesome! Cut the Rope, here we come!

Socks

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Braydon_SFX

Beat us to the vids, @Armelline ! you nasty dog, you.

tatiang

Nicely done!

jamie_c

Great tutorial!

Thunder_Child

Cool thank you

Armelline

Glad it helped! I'll do a video for PhysicsEditor tomorrow. And don't let me put you off making videos @Lost_Oasis_Games @Braydon_SFX, the more the merrier!

SLOCM3Z

Thanks dude!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@Socks said:
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Okay, I'm officially at a loss on how this even works!!!!!!!!! Help my idiot brain socks!

I imagine is has to do with the collision shape but I don't get how and what is destroying as The rope is still on scene falling after you click and destroy.

AngryBoi

Thanks!

Socks

@Lost_Oasis_Games said:

@Socks said:
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Okay, I'm officially at a loss on how this even works!!!!!!!!! Help my idiot brain socks!

I imagine is has to do with the collision shape but I don't get how and what is destroying as The rope is still on scene falling after you click and destroy.

It's really simple, just a line of actors, with a collision shape that allows it to join to the segment above it.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@Socks said:

@Lost_Oasis_Games said:

@Socks said:
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Okay, I'm officially at a loss on how this even works!!!!!!!!! Help my idiot brain socks!

I imagine is has to do with the collision shape but I don't get how and what is destroying as The rope is still on scene falling after you click and destroy.

It's really simple, just a line of actors, with a collision shape that allows it to join to the segment above it.

Yeah that what I thought and also I realized the piece you click on destroys but the piece below it falls. I was missing the idea of only one link being destroyed. Duh. Nice and simple design I like it.

Armelline

Playing with ropes is fun! We should have a contest to see who can come up with the most durable, flexible and efficient rope.

Hopscotch

@Armelline said:
Playing with ropes is fun! We should have a contest to see who can come up with the most durable, flexible and efficient rope.

"durable" is the tricky point here. But yes, fun it is.

Armelline

@Hopscotch said:

@Armelline said:
Playing with ropes is fun! We should have a contest to see who can come up with the most durable, flexible and efficient rope.

"durable" is the tricky point here. But yes, fun it is.

Mine keep breaking at about 25 links If I use a more durable collision shape, the "flexibility" of the rope is affected. There's a great middle ground to be had somewhere though

Armelline

Here's my quick play around. I re-used @Sock's image, and of course credit to him for the general idea, so hopefully he doesn't mind!

Loads of room for improvement still, though.

UtopianGames

Great work @Socks

RCT_Games

@Armelline said:
Glad it helped! I'll do a video for PhysicsEditor tomorrow. And don't let me put you off making videos @Lost_Oasis_Games @Braydon_SFX, the more the merrier!

Did you get the Physics editor video done yet? Having trouble with it seeing gamesalad as the export option

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@Armelline said:

@Hopscotch said:

@Armelline said:
Playing with ropes is fun! We should have a contest to see who can come up with the most durable, flexible and efficient rope.

"durable" is the tricky point here. But yes, fun it is.

Mine keep breaking at about 25 links If I use a more durable collision shape, the "flexibility" of the rope is affected. There's a great middle ground to be had somewhere though

Make sure you increase the density of the link actors higher in the chain.

dapion

Nice Tutorial!

dapion

Hey,
I´ve tryed to install the physics body editor like in the tutorial.
After installing JAVA and disable the csrutil it doesn´t work.
When I press the physics-editor.jar, java opens in the dock for two seconds, than the terminal and after three seconds nothing...

Could someone help?
Thanks...

Armelline

@dapion said:
Hey,
I´ve tryed to install the physics body editor like in the tutorial.
After installing JAVA and disable the csrutil it doesn´t work.
When I press the physics-editor.jar, java opens in the dock for two seconds, than the terminal and after three seconds nothing...

Could someone help?
Thanks...

Did you definitely install the right version of Java?

dapion

@Armelline Yes, i did.

dapion

and here is my csr status...