I want to make a plank game in VR with Unity. So when the player walk outside of the plank, he falls. Right now the only way to make it work is by using VRTK which is another physics system and it makes a lot of things complicated.
I've put a rigidbody on the CameraRig and uncheck "is kinematic". The player falls, but the colliders on other objects are not working anymore...
Is there a way to use Unity's physics with SteamVR and without VRTK ??
Thank you !
Firstly I would read up on Rigidbodies and Colliders/Trigger Colliders - here's a link.
Here's a useful table from that website:
You will need to use this to understand why the player is falling. Is the CameraRig actually colliding with the ground? Is it a Trigger Collider (which has a callback method but doesn't do any physical collision). There's many possibilities for why.
I wrote a script that you can drag in two objects and see if they collide. You could use that if it helps.
The issue in VR with Vive is that determining where someone walks can be difficult, as we are only tracking their head and their hands. If you have a Vive Tracker available and it fits your use case you could use that to track someones foot.
What I have done in the past is use the Camera(eyes) GameObject within the CameraRig and get it's transform.position.x and transform.position.z value to determine if it has gone outside of the boundaries of the object the user is standing on.
Hope this helps,
Liam
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I'm currently making a game in which I do not plan on adding any physics to the player. Player will be moved simply by modifying the position and rotation directly through code on a grid. Should my player be a Game Object instead of a Rigidbody? Or something else entirely? I'm a little new to Unity and don't quite know what would be best for the player.
Your player is always a GameObject, your player can't be of type RigidBody If i understand your question right you want to know if it's better to use a RigidBody or a custom script tomove your player ?
For easier use, if you are new to unity i would advice you to use the Rigidbody. You simply disable the gravity on it. If you go for a custom GameObject it's going to be more flexible but you will have more work to do (like collisions, movement calculation, etc...). You can disable the gravity on a Rigidbody with "useGravity = false" via code or in the inspector.
If you want to make your own script:
Here is a video than will explain how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZ4z4qKy44&t=246s&ab_channel=Comp-3Interactive
else:
Rigidbody Docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.html
Hope it help. Have a nice day !
I am trying to make some kind of simulation program with Unity. The simulation includes a missile launched from an aircraft and a terrain.
I get the coordinate data required for the movement of the missile from another program using a socket connection.
I created an explosion effect for the missile to explode as soon as the missile and the terrain collided. But the explosion effect is not triggered in any way.
I used the OnCollisionEnter() method to detect the collision, but this method does not seem to work.
The missile has its own rigidbody and collider and The terrain has Terrain Collider, but still no collision is detected and the missile passes through the terrain.
What could be the cause of this error?
EDIT :
I thank everyone for their help, but none of the solutions worked. I solved the error using the OnTriggerEnter method. For this, I also had to enlarge the object's collider a little more.
As mentioned in the comment section above (I dont have enough rep to contribute to the discussion but will provide a solution), you need to enable continuous collision detection. Once you have done that we can move onto the next step.
It is generally bad practice to interact with rigidbodies in update and it can lead to all sorts of strange bugs so I wouldn't recommend it. That being said I dont think it's the cause of your issues. As #HumanWrites mentioned, you are manually moving the position each frame which causes your missile to never actually collide with your mesh. the solution to this is:
rb.MovePosition(Vector3.MoveTowards(...))
The reason for this is that by using the method on the rigidbody, you inform the physics engine that you want to move from one position to the other and you would like the physics to take care of this instead of you doing it directly. This allows it to "sweep" between the current position and target position and detect any collisions that would have happened along the way.
Your missile is moving too fast to ever actually touch the mesh within a frame so you need to rely on the physics engine doing that sweep check.
For my game, the player character requires to climb up and down ladders those are placed in the gameplay area.
At present, I can able to climb up for my player character to climb down at present I don't have anyway. Because platform box collider applied with platform effector, so for the climb up, effector does not create any problem but now after reaching the top, it becomes solid platform so now I can't able to move downside.
For climbing up, I have followed this tutorial: How To Make 2D Ladders In Unity - Easy Tutorial
I am looking to implement some physics so I can reach downside to the ladder after reaching top.
You need 2 boolean variables isClimbingUp and isClimbingDown which depend on pressed key and a second ray, which will check -Vector2.up direction. Then just add one more 'else if' statement for down direction.
Yes, I have managed to solve this, and the game is published in the stores.
You can check using the below link:
Humpty Trumpty's Border Wall
This is my overall physics setup for the stair:
I have applied a trigger collider to my stair object and disable player gravity scale when the player within the stair.
Then after within the trigger enter and exist, I have done this:
Physics2D.IgnoreCollision(m_CapsuleCollider, myStair.platformCollider, false);
Disable collision between player and platform colliders when the player is within the stair.
I don't think, Platform Effect 2D becomes useful to me in this process but I didn't remove this to remain in the safer side.
So you have to keep a reference of the platform object which is attached to Stair.
I hope you will get a general idea to solve this problem.
Currently I'm making a racing game.
I move my cars with the Transform.translate class.
Now the thing I want for my cars is not to move through each other.
I attach colliders and a RigidBody to my player car and it's working.
But my problem is that each time my CPU cars and player car encounter with each other, my player car shows unrealistic behavior like moving out of the screen or throwing away.
I know this is part of the physics engine behavior but is there a way to make the RigidBody only do one job and make objects not to move through each other not to add other physics behavior?
Any ideas?
There are just few problems:
1.You don't move Rigidbody with transform.translate. When you do this, colliders will go through other colliders.
You move Rigidbody with Rigidbody.AddForce, Rigidbody.velocity and Rigidbody.MovePosition. By moving Rigidbody with these methods, collision should be functioning properly.
2.You are not even supposed to move the Rigidbody of the car.
Use WheelCollider. There are many online tutorials on how to set them up on the internet but Unity's documentation is fine too.
WheelCollider.motorTorque is used to move the car forward or backwards.
WheelCollider.steerAngle is used to steer the car.
WheelCollider.brakeTorque is used to brake the car.
If you need further help, you can find a fully working WheelCollider samples here.
I am working 2D Platform running game and I am stuck at this issue, i cant figure it out how to make my enemies jump through platforms as they follow the player. I used A* path finding with a Grid graph for my flying enemy and it works just fine. But with the ground troops i don't know what to do. Any recommendations where to start and what to study? Thanks in advance
Place a Trigger (Collider) attached with the Platform at the point where you want your enemy to Act (Jump in your case). and Attach a script to your Enemy to Handle its actions whenever it enters that trigger. you can make it Jump/Fly or whatever you want to. Thumb up if its helpful :)