Dropping items in playmaker.

[coffeeANDsoda]

How do I set up a game object to generate items to drop down with only playmaker?

Thanks.

[Lane]

Whats making it stay in place/attached?

[coffeeANDsoda]

Whats making it stay in place/attached?

I forgot to remove the block and it's fsm. I want the object above it to drop objects that it generates. 

[Lane]

You can add a Rigidbody to it and turn Gravity on.

[coffeeANDsoda]

How would that work for having objects appear? Like a crane just dropping objects?

[Lane]

Setting up a physics based crane is no simple task, but one easy way to sort of do it is... you can disable the rigidbody, parent the box to the crane and when you want to drop it just unparent it and turn on the rigidbody, gravity will take over.

[coffeeANDsoda]

And that way, it drops a single object in the whole game, or does it drop another after the player catches it? Because I thought about making a stacking game where player has to catch objects.   

[Lane]

It does whatever you tell it, if you tell a Rigidbody to use gravity then it will fall down.

If you're using physics and stacking, it'll be worthwhile to look into the physics joints.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/comp-DynamicsGroup.html

[coffeeANDsoda]

Setting up a physics based crane is no simple task, but one easy way to sort of do it is... you can disable the rigidbody, parent the box to the crane and when you want to drop it just unparent it and turn on the rigidbody, gravity will take over.

What does that mean for actions? When I Add force and create object to drop, not only it drops down at a lower position than the spawn point, but another object doesn't drop down. I want to set up so another responds when the player catches it.

[Lane]

All you have to do to make it fall with physics is add a Rigidbody Component and turn on gravity in the component. You shouldn't need Add Force down unless there is some reason you need to disable gravity. Which is fine, gravity is equivalent to roughly (9.81 * mass) if you wanted to do it explicitly in an action.

The hard part with doing it with physics is setting up the physics joints properly. Faking this with parenting and disabling rigidbody parts is easier than using the joints I think.

[coffeeANDsoda]

All you have to do to make it fall with physics is add a Rigidbody Component and turn on gravity in the component. You shouldn't need Add Force down unless there is some reason you need to disable gravity. Which is fine, gravity is equivalent to roughly (9.81 * mass) if you wanted to do it explicitly in an action.

Game object drops down realistically when I decreased the time of waiting in the first state. However theirs two problems. One being that they don't keep spawning in order to stack on top of the player. Second is, when the object falls on the player(which is a cube), it acts like it ricochets or bounces off of the player.

The hard part with doing it with physics is setting up the physics joints properly. Faking this with parenting and disabling rigidbody parts is easier than using the joints I think.

For now I have the crane set up so it doesn't have multiple objects representing parts of it like a real crane does. So it uses a itween action to go front to backwards.

[Lane]

Can you take some screenshots of the FSMs you're having trouble with?

[coffeeANDsoda]

This is what I have for the crane.

https://db.tt/d2CwW48m



https://db.tt/FSKPLWR5

[Lane]

Give this a try.

[coffeeANDsoda]

I took a look at the example and applied those actions. Doesn't work.

https://db.tt/AKduhYd3

https://db.tt/hFeGngQX