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Ezekel

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i've seen quite a number of bottles/cans on 1/2 acre that can be punted about by weapons/melee.

my question is, with props like the bottle which hasn't got inherent physics, what special things did you have to do with it to get it to work?

for me, whenever i use something that is dynamic but not physics checked in the model viewer, the game will occasionally crash during a collision. (including bottles)

thanks

edit:

ok... seems the problem isn't the props at all, but some displacement brushes.
seems that if a demoman's grenades or stickies pass near/over some brushes the game locks up (i copy pasted them to a new map to test this, and it indeed crashed).

what's up with that?
i'm gonna destroy/remake the displacement, but what could've caused this in teh 1st place?
 
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Zeewier

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you should use prop_physics_override turns dynamic props into physics props ;)
 

UKCS-Alias

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ok... seems the problem isn't the props at all, but some displacement brushes.
seems that if a demoman's grenades or stickies pass near/over some brushes the game locks up (i copy pasted them to a new map to test this, and it indeed crashed).

what's up with that?
i'm gonna destroy/remake the displacement, but what could've caused this in teh 1st place?
Thats usualy a sign of a leak, its probably below or arround the displacement but can be at any place actualy. Make sure to check that the compiles finished without problems, a leak can be found by loading pointfile as it shows a red line in hammer.
 

Zeewier

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If i read it correctly, he wanted to use dynamic props as physics props.

prop_physics_override allows ppl to use the skin of dynamic props for physics entities ;)

dunnow about other diffrences, but valve used this entity for their dynamic payload cart model ;) (it uses physics when falling into the final cap point :) )
 

Ezekel

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using physics overide instead of physics multiplayer can lead to lag.

no leaks on the map - i always check for that.

deleting the displacement in question and putting a fresh one in fixed the problem. still dunno why the problem happened in the 1st place though
 

Dox

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If it really was a question just to Youme, you can do it in a PM :p
 

Laz

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prop_physics_multiplayer is just a faster version of props_physics, props_physics_multiplayer puts alot less stress on your network overhead, as it uses much simpler calculations.
the override is for things that nor not physics models (the bottle and cans ARE physics models, so no need to use override. Just props_physics_multiplayer them)
 

Ezekel

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If it really was a question just to Youme, you can do it in a PM :p

well it was a question that i thought everyone would benefit from seeing the answer. plus i didn't mind who answered, but i do know that youme has used phys props before...

it doesn't matter now though, since i found out it wasn't the phys itself but displacements that just were broken for some unknown reason
 

grazr

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Area you saying Youme implomented physics object's as dynamic objects. I'm pretty sure any objects like glass bottles would have beeen implemented as physics_multiplayer models.