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Confined Physics Area Online - Bogs Server? About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Confined Physics Area Online - Bogs Server? // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by 3dvisuals dude // Aug 30, 2007, 10:22am 3dvisuals dude Total Posts: 1703 I'm looking hard now at developing a new script which involves applying physics within a small area of a scene for a short temporary period, activated and deactivated via proximity sensor. As we all know, I think, starting Physics online causes every point or face in the entire online scene (including those of moving avatar parts) to be precalculated in relation to their role in the physics engine, which on two occasions I'm aware of has severely bogged down the truePlace Server and even caused people's sessions to drop immediately. Nevertheless, there are needs for physics development in online scenes, so what I am asking here is can this bogdown effect be circumvented entirely by applying physics only within a small confined area of the online scene. This is important, so any help will be appreciated. - 3dvisuals dude Post by weaveribm // Aug 30, 2007, 10:53am weaveribm Total Posts: 592 Can you create a collision bubble dude? An inch space around the object and a primitive for the collision cage Peter Post by weaveribm // Aug 30, 2007, 10:56am weaveribm Total Posts: 592 Create a copy of the object and expand it a little (cubic inch etc) centred on the original object and then simplify the collision-cage object. Then stuff hits the simpler collison cage and you fake it :) Peter Post by frootee // Aug 30, 2007, 12:08pm frootee Total Posts: 2667 well one place to start I think of is looking at a local physics environment surrounding the trigger. You can make one out of a cylinder, for example: add a cylinder, then use one of the physics local physics icons. Do Not shell the cylinder though. The Local Environment is the Volume encased by the cylinder or other object you create. gotta go! Froo Post by 3dvisuals dude // Sep 2, 2007, 10:46am 3dvisuals dude Total Posts: 1703 Thanks guys! I think I've figured this out at last. There's another more urgent project I'm in development on now but I'll be back to this as soon as that is finished. Once we all have the ability to confine our physics sims effectively online we will have some really exciting new interactivity developments right away.:D Thanks again, - Mark / 3dvisuals dude

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