Object not colliding with mesh

Hi all,

Just needed some help / suggestion as to how to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

I got the ragdoll, once in a while it will go thru a mesh(barrel)

Barrel has a mesh collider and ragdoll was created using the wizard

I'm thinking of surrounding the barrel with box or capsule collider inside the barrel but not sure if it's the best way to correct the problem.

or if I duplicate the barrel and reverse the normal of the duplicate and add a mesh collider, Will it work?

attaching a image to better describe the problem.

Thanks,
Ray

 

Meshes can't collide with meshes in case that might somehow be the problem.

I find the best way to do cylinders is to use multiple box colliders.

 

It could be a few things. The mesh that's showing through may just be outside of any physics collider.

For instance, part of the face on your previous screenshot isn't covered by the sphere collider for the head:



If that isn't it you probably will want to have some sort of thickness to the barrels (tubes instead of cylinders).

 

Try making the colliders on your ragdoll a wee bit bigger than the actual clown?

I had a similar issue with portals. You could add a few more primitive colliders to hands feet etc, or have a collision barrel smaller than a mesh renderer barrel, which is all workaroundage...

Or maybe if you subdivided the mesh on the drum, the extra verts would increase the collision detection and create a better scenario? Im not sure theres a straightforward answer, as I have seen this issue also in AAA commercial videogames
AC

 

Hi All,

@ Yoggi
Adding box colliders inside the barrel resulted the same issue but much better.

@Matthew

Adjusted the colliders around the ragdoll and added some for the feet and hands

@Targos
Colliders are a bit bigger than the ragdoll body.

@Matthew
Yes, some mesh go outside the physics collider especially in the knees when the ragdoll knees bends.

Even the collider sometimes goes thru the mesh with box collider inside the barrel.

So far what I did is made the barrel bigger / wider, move the trigger that will cause the ragdoll to be destroyed closer to the rim of the barrel, will be leaving the box colliders inside the barrel for added cushion or padding (not sure what to call it)

Some screen shots before the barrel size was increased.

Thanks,
Ray

 

Ray-Did you try subdividing the mesh for increased collision detection?

Or (and this is a bit of a long shot)

Imagine a black texture(floor) with white rings(barrels) on it representing a top down view of your arena. Perhaps you could use the "generate heightmap" script (procedual examples) to create an invisible mesh at runtime? You will need to add a meshcollider via scripting...

I'll stop trying to offer up ideas now, as I've run out

Hope it goes well. Its funny how lots of us think clowns are stink and want to use them as baddies...
AC

 

What is your physics framerate? are you getting decent performance in the game? Adding a box collider to the barrel didn't work? Does it work with a non-skinned mesh ragdoll?

 

@targos
Tried messing with the mesh but did not make any difference.

Not ready to use generate heightmap, too lazy to try to learn . Will eventually use it later on the mini golf game.

After dunking this clown, got to whack it later!

@Yoggy
Framerate plays between 25 to 91, depends on what's going on during play mode. Have some other effects running during play mode.
The box collider made it better, but sometimes, depends on how the clown bends, little bit shows up.

So far so good!

Thanks for everybody help.
Ray