okay as some of you know I've been perfecting my custom H2 hammer and Im almost done the only problem - (should be simple) is this:

Watch vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOm-zPv59tM

You will notice how it over pentrates but thats fine... my problem is when striking a enemy or what not for it to do its damge etc the have to be hit with the almost very center...

Unlike the H2 one if your were hit by the edges same effect... Mine just seems to go through objects unless its the center???

I've tried doing the collision over but it still does the same thing?

What do u think a good bounding radius for that should be?

Any ideas how to fix you guys?

Make the damage_effect larger radius.

Cool hammer.

btw if you want I have the Hammer swinging sound if you want a better one.

well any ideas how to fix?? I think I have the damage radius set to 1.5 to 3.5 but thats not the problem the problem is the ball is you would say hollow around it except a little bit in the middle.... Objects have to be struct with the mide and nowwhere else thats what I want to fix?

You would have to modify the effect in gmax

what do you mean the effects?? I figured the collision model would be the problem cuz it seems everything in the ball is hollow and just the center does damage?


But whats ur idea I'll try?

No. Try going into the projectile tag and setting all the material effects to "detonate" then make a detonation effect that has no particles and is just the shock wave damage effect (can be found in weapons\frag grenade)

yeah I did that thats currently how it's set up when it impacts certain things such as units or vehicle materials....

What Im saying is when the gravity_ball forms the outer parts of the ball can hit those objects and it does nothing... only when the almost very center hits those objects does the effects take place??


So for ex: Imagine this you swing ball forms but only the inside_sides of top of bottom of the circle hit the target nothing happens.... unless there hit with the almost center of the ball does something happen.

try making a collision geometry tag for it. Don't use a sphere though. Use a Cylinder and scale the sections down so that it looks like a sphere:

Can't you just use Geo-spheres?

They don't work for me all the time, so I use the cylinder method.

okay thanks... see now you guys understand yeah I found out awhile back circles dont work well with collisiom models and some models okay I'll try the cylindar idea... and right back.//...

I use chamfer boxes lol. just make a chamfer box into a sphere and then weild the entire thing to remove the touching vertices.

Good idea lol I wouldn't have thought of that.

Well Im just a basic modeler wish I knew what you just said sounds like a good idea :)

Just make a cylinder the same height as your sphere, then select the top and bottom ring of vertices and scale them down. Scale the next ring of verts in also, but not as much as the first time, so you have a nice "almost circle" thing