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- | Surprisingly this is quite easy! You can change any entity in the | + | Surprisingly this is quite easy! You can change any entity in the Item category to a static object. This is helpful in puzzles, chemical ones especially. For this tutorial, I'll show you how easy it is to change! |
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- | category to a static object. This is helpful in puzzles, chemical ones especially. For this tutorial, I'll show you how easy it is to change!\\ | + | |
- Open your Model Editor. Hit Open, and search through the entities>item folder to pick the entity you'd like. Once it's loaded in the editor, select the objects Body. This is the green square surrounding it. | - Open your Model Editor. Hit Open, and search through the entities>item folder to pick the entity you'd like. Once it's loaded in the editor, select the objects Body. This is the green square surrounding it. | ||
- | - Under the Body tab, we're going to have to change a few things. Set | + | - Under the Body tab, we're going to have to change a few things. Set **Mass** to **0**. Looking at the bottom of the tab, you'll see quite a few options checked. Uncheck all of them, except for ** Continuous Collision**, **Use Surface Effects**, and **Has Gravity**. Only those three should be checked. |
- | Mass | + | - Now at the top bar, all the way to the right there is an option called Settings. Click that, then **User Defined Variables**. Only two things need to be changed; **Type** >**Object** and **Subtype** >**Static**. Once you change the Type to Object it should automatically change the Subtype to Static. Close the User Defined Variables Box. |
- | to | + | - Hit File>**SAVE AS**. I can't stress enough how important it is to make sure you hit **SAVE AS**. Last thing to do is re-name the object. The easiest way is to add **_static** to the end. (EX: Say you're making orbpiece_obsidian static. Change the name to **orbpiece_obsidian_static** and hit Save.) Make sure you keep the new static object in the same folder as its' "brothers". |
- | 0 | + | |
- | . Looking at the bottom of the tab, you'll see quite a few options checked. Uncheck all of them, except for | + | |
- | Continuous Collision, Use Surface Effects, and Has Gravity | + | And that's it! It only takes a few minutes at most, and you can change almost everything! Hope you put this to good use, good luck~ |
- | . Only those three should be checked. | + | |
- | - Now at the top bar, all the way to the right there is an option called Settings. Click that, then | + | |
- | User Defined Variables | + | |
- | . Only two things need to be changed; | + | |
- | Type>Object and Subtype>Static | + | |
- | . Once you change the Type to Object it should automatically change the Subtype to Static. Close the User Defined Variables Box. | + | |
- | - Hit File> | + | |
- | SAVE AS | + | |
- | . I can't stress enough how important it is to make sure you hit | + | |
- | SAVE AS | + | |
- | . Last thing to do is re-name the object. The easiest way is to add | + | |
- | _static | + | |
- | to the end. (EX: Say you're making orbpiece_obsidian static. Change the name to | + | |
- | orbpiece_obsidian_static | + | |
- | and hit Save.) Make sure you keep the new static object in the same folder as its' "brothers". | + | |
- | And that's it! It only takes a few minutes at most, and you can change almost everything! Hope you put this to good use, good luck~ | + | |
Created by JenniferOrange | Created by JenniferOrange | ||