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Applying Gravity to a Mesh

Hi,

I am looking to use a mesh on a box and I need it to fall as if being acted on by gravity. What is the best way to trigger the fall action after the box has been picked up and keep the action occurring over a certain height? Also how do I make it stop falling whenever it collides with another object?

This is the simple setup I have at the moment:

Code:

import viz

import vizact

import vizconnect

import vizshape



viz.fov(60)

viz.go()



#fall action

fallAction=vizact.fall(0.75,gravity=9.81)



#adding ground

ground = viz.add('ground.osgb')

ground.collidePlane()



#add cubes

cube1=vizshape.addCube(size=0.5)

cube1.collidemesh()

cube1.setPosition(0,1,1)

cube1.add(fallAction)



cube2=viz.shape.addCube(size=0.5)

cube2.collidemesh()

cube2.setPosition(0,0.5,1)



#define grabbable parts

parts=[cube1]



#using vizconnect

vizconnect.go('vizconnect_config.py')

#grabber

grabber=vizconnect.getRawTool('grabber')

grabber.setItems(parts)

from tools import grabber

tool = grabber.Grabber(usingPhysics=True, usingSprings=True)

tool.setItems(parts)

The technique will later be applied to more complex shapes which is why I am using the mesh instead of the box method.

Thanks

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What is the best way to trigger the fall action after the box has been picked up and keep the action occurring over a certain height?

You could set up a callback function for the grabber's release event. In the callback function, apply the falling action to the object.

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Also how do I make it stop falling whenever it collides with another object?

This seems like it could get complicated. You could try using collision detection to detect if the collision has occured. Then use the node.endAction command to end the falling action and have the object stop immediately.