Rigidbodies and Mesh Colliders

Hiyo,

I want to get a ball rolling along this spiral rail. I'm aware that MeshColliders are expensive and non-convex ones are quite restrictive.

In the example here, the behaviour is quite unpredictable and inconsistent. For a situation like this, what might help? Am I better off temporarily locking the ball to a spline instead, thus essentially faking it? Or maybe chaining box colliders together instead?

 

yup

 

Quick, concise, I like it

 

You can do it quite well with latest 2018.3 version of Unity with some good knowledge of settings, a high physics update rate and some tweaking of settings. But this would pretty much require you to use multiple physics scenes as the settings for Physx to become stable would be rather expensive, and thus you'd want to isolate it from other physics (again a new feature in.3)

So I'd 100% go with LaneFox

 

Hmm thanks for the tip. I'll look into that. This is meant to work on mobile, so perhaps even more of a reason to fake it as such. Cheers.

 

Yeah and it will be less dev time just having a result rather than R&D... so yep, can be done. Nope, not cost effective to bother here it seems

 

If it indistinguishable to the player and the "fake" solution costs less, use it.

if i want a hovering platform with a jet under it i can use AddForce with rigidbodies and calculate what force i need to keep it level, or i can just make it static at the wanted height