Items on tables

[Devastator_cm 434]

 Hi Guys,

EDEN not supposed to bring the possibility to put items easily on top of others, i.e. tables, shelves etc?
Each and every time the objects are falling down or getting half sank into the surface..

How do you handle this? I am tired to find the coordinations manually by setpos by try and error...

[Mynock 244]

The simplest way I can think of is to disable the simulation for the objects on the table and possibly for the table itself if required. However, the downside of this is the objects will no longer react to the environment, so if for example the table is inside a building and the building is destroyed during combat, the objects will float in mid air. There are ways around that though as well, but require a little scripting and extra effort.

[Tajin 349]

You can use this snippet and put it into the object on the table:

this attachTo [table, table worldToModel (getPosATL this)];

Just replace "table" with the referencename of your table.

[Greenfist 1863]

Or:

[this, yourTable] call BIS_fnc_attachToRelative

if you want to keep the object's orientation.

[Tajin 349]

Seems to be pretty much the same thing.

 

I'm not good at remembering all those BIS functions. :rolleyes:

[Greenfist 1863]

Seems to be pretty much the same thing.

 

I'm not good at remembering all those BIS functions. :rolleyes:

But doesn't attaching reset the objects direction to match the table? I can't remember.

[R3vo 2654]

Disable Simulation does not work for objects with variable names. Keep that in mind.

[Devastator_cm 434]

Thanks million times guys.
I will check those proposals

[h - 169]

Isn't this pretty pathetic that we have this 3D editor but still all kinds of scripted shenanigans are needed to have objects on surfaces..

[Devastator_cm 434]

I also thought 3d editor would handle such things properly but unfortunately not..

[R3vo 2654]

Well, doesn't have much to do with Eden but rather the clunky engine physix. However, I believe the devs are working on an integration of the attachTo command, so hopefully in the future, things like that can be done without scripting.

[Devastator_cm 434]

Is there a way to un attach the objects? :/
I used BIS_fnc_attachToRelative to put some boxes on truck but now I am not able to move them on flor with setpos command where player can cary them as they want

[R3vo 2654]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/detach

[Devastator_cm 434]

I reply a bit late but I mean actually detach for 

[this, yourTable] call BIS_fnc_attachToRelative 

(this one worked perfectly for my case)