Scaling Collision Object when Game Object is scaled (DEF-521) (SOLVED)

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#44

I am really looking forward to this fix! It has been a pain for a really long time.

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#45

Any updates on this? This is very useful feature

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#46

+1 For this feature. Need to create objects with variated col box sizes in my game, dynamically.

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#47

Definitely collision objects should follow the transform of game object as well as sprite component does. I have a ton of multiple game objects with different collision objects just as a workaround, it’s not convenient.

+1 for this!

(EDIT: I already +1 it earlier! :smiley: )

#48

I keep bumping into this one. Destroying and recreating the game object would be fine; that’s how it’s usually done in Box2D. That doesn’t work because factory.create() doesn’t support arbitrarily scaled collision objects.

Any update on this?

#49

You mean non uniformly scaled objects?

#50

Ja. :slight_smile:

#51

+1 over here XD :stuck_out_tongue:

#52

Still encounterd this bug today.
I thought it was something wrong with my script.

#53

I think we should be able to pick this issue up again very soon though.

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#54

Solved in 1.2.170

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#55

I’m testing non-uniformly scaled collision objects now with Defold v1.2.174. It still seems to work only when uniform. What did the “solved” refer to?

#56

You can now set/animate the scale after the object has been spawned. It wasn’t possible before.

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#57

Also running into this issue with non-uniformly scaled objects. This isn’t the end of the world for us as the work is a performance boost, but would be nice to see in future.

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#58

We haven’t really considered it previously, as it’s not something physics engines usually support.
E.g. A non uniformly scaled circle is an ellipse, and that isn’t supported by Box2D (or Bullet 3d iirc)

Currently, we support the runtime scaling for boxes in Box2D by manipulating the actual vertices at run time. So there ot would be possible. However ot would make it quite weird that you could apply non uniform scaling on only some object types.

How does it work in other engines? Can they scale circles non uniformly?

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#59

Hi Mathias, thanks for the quick reply. The objects we are scaling are all boxes so I will investigate manually scaling the vertices, though I’m not sure the amount of work will be worth it until we actually run into performance issues.

Lack of non-uniform scaling for circles makes sense, I couldn’t suggest a good solution. As for other engines, I’m not sure as this is my first time using one. I normally build my own physics implementations.

#60

Oh wow, I didn’t realise the vertices were changed at runtime, I had assumed the object was deleted and recreated. Nice.

I think scaling only rectangles non uniformly would be fine, as long as the limitation of circles is mentioned in the docs. I hadn’t thought of circles, I think scaling circles is an unusual use case.

Of course when Defold supports chain shapes, those could be used to scale and defoem a circular shape. :slight_smile:

#61

I think scaling only rectangles non uniformly would be fine, as long as the limitation of circles is mentioned in the docs.

Wondering if this was ever considered? Having a lot of trouble finding a trick to scaling a rectangular collision object horizontally or vertically.

#62

I don’t think it was considered at the time. And I do not think we have a feature request on GitHub for this.

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#63

We won’t support non uniform scaling, since that’s not something that physics engines normally support.

Instead I think it’s more feasible to add more features around the actual collision meshes.

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