Collision meshes for aircraft [Blender2MSFS]

[AeroLynx]

Hello everyone,

According to the docs, the MSFS engine is able to deal with collision meshes. The description is for 3DsMax and it somewhat reads as if this was for scenery.
I am using the Blender2MSFS Plugin (0.4.0) and want to apply it to the aircraft.

My experiments showed, that adding a box to the aircraft, giving it "invisible" material and setting "Collision" to checked does not lead to the desired effect.

For testing purposes, I added the box (1), gave it invisible material (2) and checked collision material (3).

I also did a couple of variations regarding hierarchy and naming. Naming that structure above "Mesh_Collider" as in the docs and putting it under a *_LOD0 named root object did not help.

Any hints?

 

[Luicid]

Hi AeroLynx,

Did you solve your issue ?

In in the same situation

 

[dale in cda]

Might want to check this thread, where there have been some minor updates (by other than the original developer)

https://fsdeveloper.com/forum/threa...n-color-multipliers.450272/page-3#post-885406

 

[rhumbaflappy]

https://fsdeveloper.com/forum/threa...n-color-multipliers.450272/page-3#post-885350

This version works for collisions and road surfaces.

 

[ronh]

collision mesh issues for aircraft. possible fix?

MSFS - Blender2MSFS Limitation? Color Multipliers

i dont know if that was a problem but i noticed, that the "collision" tag got exported differently to the "road" materials tag. i fixed that in this version. was the collision property allready working correct?

www.fsdeveloper.com

 

[karlo922]

Hi, what are your steps to create a working "collidable" surface for scenery with blender? Which setting do we need to appy?

 

[ronh]

Make a collision mesh - a box say use MSFS invisible, and set the material as collision. Normals face in. This is for aircraft and VR.

 

[karlo922]

Make a collision mesh - a box say use MSFS invisible, and set the material as collision. Normals face in. This is for aircraft and VR.

Thanks! And for buildings we need to use something different?

 

[rhumbaflappy]

Thanks! And for buildings we need to use something different?

Buildings are the same. I just make an invisible box slightly inside the building and tick it as collision. I only do this on LOD0. Seems to work.

I have some wildlife moving around in a script, and they jump on top of the collision box. Without a collision, they pass through the building.

 

[karlo922]

Buildings are the same. I just make an invisible box slightly inside the building and tick it as collision. I only do this on LOD0. Seems to work.

I have some wildlife moving around in a script, and they jump on top of the collision box. Without a collision, they pass through the building.

Hi! It does not work for me... I tried a simple cube but I can just taxi with my plane right through it.
Could you attach an example like a simple cube that works?
And what kind of exporter do you use?

 

[B21-soaring]

is this collision stuff the same thing you'd use to exclude the airfield long grass coming into a glider cockpit? And after export is the collision/exclusion definition entirely in the gltf file referencing the model parts (so at least I, the non-modeller, can check it). We're having a tough time between having the long grass come up inside the cockpit or having a massive performance problem on grass airfields.

 

[Lagaffe]

To avoid long grass in the cockpit, it is MSFS Environment Occluder material that you shoud use no MSFS Collision.
I remark that on this last opus: SU5, that MSFS Environment Occluder seems not to work anymore (in SU4 it was working).

 

[B21-soaring]

thanks Didier - your advice is much appreciated. Is it correct I should be able to see the "MSFS Environment Occluder" as a material EnvironmentOccluder in the gltf file of a stock aircraft? My idea is to compare that entry with what we're getting out of Blender2MSFS. (I understand your SU5 comment).

 

[Lagaffe]

When you import a gLTF model in MCX, the green box is the element on which the material MSFS EnvironmentOccluder is applied. It appear in the "Material Windows" (MCX menu) as EnvironmentOccluder but you don't have more informations about this material, just is name
So this material is also present in the gLTF file if you open it with Notepad program (gLTF files are ascii files but not the bin part ... of course ).

SU5 release has destroy some functionnalities (Occluder and Visual Effects Editor among others), I hope this will correct with SU6 ... wait and see