Unless I'm doing something entirely wrong, creating a multishape physbody for a multipart object mesh is proving rather difficult.
Best explained with a series of screen shots:

Here is my test mesh object consisting of two teapots joined by connector bar:



I can create this easily enough (one physbody encompassing the whole mesh)



But I want a seperate physbody shape for each of the three parts comprising the mesh. So I select teapot1, and click Convex32 and get:



So far so good... but now I also want the second teapot. So I select teapot2 and click Convex32, and then NOT what I expect:

The physbody shape on teapot1 jumps to teapot2 !

Likewise when the connecting bar is selected and I click Convex16, the physbody shape encompasses the bar, leaving the teapots naked:



So that's the problem... not so easy (without a lot of fiddling around) to get each part of the mesh with its own individual physbody part.
Please, someone tell me I'm doing something wrong!

Hi,

Currently there can be only one Convex per phys body.

If you want to have 2 convex meshes or more.
Then please keep them as separate objects:
-teapot
-teapot
-box/line

create convex phys bodies separately.

inside the game, create all of the 3 object instances, and link their actors with 'Joint'

Well that's a bit of a bummer...

I'll have to reassemble all my current set of machine parts (comprising multishape actors) using code, and not the Object Editor (which I was hoping for).

As an example of Multishape Actors using Convex PhysParts, I've taken the export file from a Multishape Editor I use in the other 3D graphic engine that I also currently work with. I've translated it into an EE compatible format and reassembled the Gearwheel actors using EE code in the CodeEditor.
I must say that I initially thought this would be problematic, but coding in EE is a real pleasure... everything just falls into place!
Here's a video of the two interacting gearwheel actors, with torque force supplied by yours truly, using the mouse.





And here's a pic showing the PhysBodies. Only two hinge joints are used, centered at the axis of each gearwheel.

very interesting work your doing 3DRaddict. I've been following your topics, truly creative.

Just imagine what would happen if someone got this guy a copy of Solidworks.... O_O