Hi, I have a problem connected with the way PhysX deals with collision.

I've got two classes (Player and NPC) which derive from Chr class. While playing (using an instance of Player class of course) I am able to push other characters (NPCs) - they are moved because of the force of impact. I would like to remove this effect - NPCs are supposed to stand still / remain on their walking paths (they walk, so I cannot simply change them to statics) no matter what the player will try to do with them. I've tried following:
1. Increasing drastically the mass of NPC - dull solution, also the NPCs would slide down if the terrain is not perfectly flat.
2. Using PhysicsClass.dominance() method - doesn't seem to make any difference - according to [1][2] it cannot be helped.
3. Changing NPCs affiliation to Kinematic (Actor.kinematic()) but it as well does no difference.

I figured out that I can make my own function which will handle the collision of these two objects by using PhysicsClass.modifyContact() methods, but before I will proceed to doing this I would like to ask if there isn't any better solution? Some magical switch that would save my time? It's hard to believe that there is no such functionality.

kinematic should work ok, but for game::chr it's changed sometimes internally, you should override game::chr::enable/disable and after calling super adjust kinematic (just ideas)

you can also disable collisions physics.ignore

Thank you very much, overriding enable() did well

BTW, PhysicsClass.ignore() would completly disable collision handling so in that case Player would have been able to went straight through the NPC as if it was a ghost

If collision is semi-important, you can do like FFXI and set a timer for switching collision off.

when you collide with something, call: flt timer = Time.curTime();
when you create your character, set: int collide = 1;
this will act as a switch to tell the system you can collide with something
when you collide with someone (not sure of the way to detect this but when you find out, the rest is simple)
then use method:

if(Time.curTime() - timer >= 2)
{
Physics.ignore(Player1, Player2, True);
collide = 0;
Timer2 = Time.curTime();
}
if(collide == 0)
{if(Time.curTime() - timer2 >= 0.5)
{collide = 1;
Physics.ignore(Player1, Player2, False);
}}

I have the same problem... Npcs are just pushed away... What do you mean with "Override enable"? I mean, what should the overriden code do? Is the kinematic state viable all the time? or should it just be used in "cut-scenes"?

Currently: setting kinematic to true -> does nothing.
"" "" .. and overriding enable/disable with blank block -> chrs cant move
setting mass to high value -> nothing.

Sorry to bump an old post, but I just came up with a way to accomplish this by setting they player's controller mass to a small value during collision with NPCs, then resetting it to the original value after there is no collision happening:

Put this in your Game Init() function:

Put these where ever:


This where you create your player:

This goes in your player update loop: