Breaking Glass

[clever orbit]

Does anybody know how to make the glass like this?

[muted ravine]

Looks like unanchoring and applying a velocity

[earnest marten]

unions

[quaint sun]

That's a neat idea. build a window out of pieces, union it, then when it breaks, separate it and unanchor

[earnest marten]

no you can create unions with scripts

you dont need pre existong unions as long as they are parts

[quaint sun]

Well if the windows are prebuilt for the map why not have them be unions then?

[earnest marten]

because its not needed and would be unnecessary

youd spent time making unions just to make more with the script

[quaint sun]

is that because you can't get pre-existing union operations, you have to make a new UnionOperation to be able to later separate it?

[earnest marten]

are you aware of how unions work?

if you want to split glass into pieces lets say 3 then you make 3 unions and exclude the other 2 pieces so that you have 1 seperate piece

[quaint sun]

I've never made unions via scripts before

I thought you'd union the individual pieces of the glass into the larger window, so when you would separate the union it'd become the three pieces like it was pre-union, so it appears to have "shattered"

[earnest marten]

this wouldnt be very responsive if you were to shatter the glass in a specific spot as the centre would be the pre-existing one