Open-sided colliders for containers?

[grodenglaive]

I tried to add a custom collider to a pot so you could, for example, hide a key in it that would fall out if the player tipped the pot upside down. This doesn't seem possible - any collider that isn't a single solid polygon gives me an error on map start. 

For example, something like this doesn't work:

 

Is this just a limitation of the engine or is there a way to do it? It's not super important, I just thought it would be cool to do. 

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by grodenglaive

[thebigh]

I'm pretty sure collision meshes have to be convex.

[Amadeus]

Yeah, you might be better off using the "nodraw solid" materials

[grodenglaive]

thanks, I'll look into that

[AluminumHaste]

On 9/15/2023 at 2:24 PM, grodenglaive said:

I tried to add a custom collider to a pot so you could, for example, hide a key in it that would fall out if the player tipped the pot upside down. This doesn't seem possible - any collider that isn't a single solid polygon gives me an error on map start. 

For example, something like this doesn't work:

 

Is this just a limitation of the engine or is there a way to do it? It's not super important, I just thought it would be cool to do. 

 

This was done in the mission Tears of Saint Lucia, where you have to shoot a vase with a key in it off a ledge.
It's right at the start of the mission, so go see how that was done.

[grodenglaive]

Thanks!

Okay, In St. Lucia, a fake key was bound to a vase, then a stim/response used to delete the fake key and put the real key in the players inventory when the vase was frobbed. Not quite the effect I wanted, but it could be useful.

[AluminumHaste]

That's the new version, it used to be a real key would fall out.

Was causing issues where players would lose it and couldn't find it.

I don't remember how they did that originally.