New to this.
I have a model I want to ragdoll, what are my options for setting up the colliders?
I can only think of making an app in bevy to add them manually in real time and serialize.
Alternatively maybe blender has some way to export extra data into the gltf?
#Best way to add colliders to a gltf?
flint surge
glossy wharf
May be bevy_rapier will help?
flint surge
Yeah, I need to set up the colliders for rapier.
After googling a bit, there doesn't seem to be an easy solution.
I'll just do an app for it.
mint trail
have a look at foxtrot in their blender scene they use the 'extra fields' section to add tags that in bevy are then read into components. So adding the "ColliderMarker" tag translates into the component being used for collisions, or the "Hidden" tag makes the component invisible in game
in the documentation under level instantiation they explain how it works and link to a github repo that shows it in more detail
flint surge
have a look at [foxtrot](https://github.com/janhohenheim/foxtrot) in their blend...
Looks great. Thank you!
flint surge
After looking into it, foxtrots approach doesn't help me.
They create colliders automatically from exported meshes.
I want to manually place primitive colliders parented to bones.
next cosmos
After looking into it, foxtrots approach doesn't help me.
They create colliders ...
In the same place where the colliders are created, you could just add primitives instead while iterating through the children. Check out iter_descendants to go over all children in the hierarchy and filter out the bones. Then, insert your primitive colliders 🙂
flint surge
In the same place where the colliders are created, you could just add primitives...
That would have the same effect as parsing primitives from the blender extras field. I.e. I would need to create colliders in code.
But I want to add colliders to an armature, which is pretty much impossible without a visual editor like blender.
next cosmos
Any reason you cannot add them via blender and then use the mesh to create colliders?
flint surge
I want to avoid using mesh colliders for primitives.
next cosmos
For simple shapes and if you're not adding millions of ragdolls, the difference between the mesh colliders and primitives shouldn't be too big.
flint surge
I suppose.