2 posts tagged with "scripting"

A new (BodyNode) property was recently added in Physion.

Its name: Gravity Scale (gravityScale).

As the name suggests, the gravityScale property of a body can be used to "scale" the gravitational attraction applied to it. In other words, the gravityScale allows you to specify a different gravity for each body.

By default, the value of this new property is 1.0 meaning that the Scene's gravity will be applied to the body. If you change this value to say 0.5 then only half of the Scene's gravitational force will be applied to the body. If you want to make a body float (i.e ignore gravity) you can set a gravity scale of 0. To make a balloon-like body you can set its gravityScale to a negative number.

Recently, a feature request was made in Physion's Discord Server: "Add the ability to visualize the trajectory of an object". This functionality was already implemented in the old version of Physion as you can see in the video below:

Unfortunately (and for the time being) the web version of Physion doesn't natively support tracers. The goods news is that we can implement the tracer functionality using scripting.