How can you avoid physics entities bouncing off certain non-physics entities? I have laser beams that should do damage to physics entities but not cause them to bounce. I can't stop them bouncing.

The non-physics entities are set to become passable on collision, do damge to the "you" entity (on event_entity) and their function is set to proc_late. I'm not sure if using ent_move or c-move should make a difference.

With c_move try IGNORE_MODELS.

In that case won't it just fly straiht through the physics entities? I want to make the physics entities insensitive to hitting the the shots, not the shot from hitting the physics entities.

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In that case won't it just fly straiht through the physics entities?

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Yes, it will. I can think on another way to help.
Suimassen.

...I'll try push values. Should have thought of that earlier.

Nope, push values don't work. Sometimes they collide and sometimes they don't.

Can you explain a little clearer what you are trying to do? Maybe a screen shot or something?

Are you saying the laser should hit boxes and move them, but if the boxes move into the lazer they shouldn't? Do you mean the long beam of the laser, not the tip?

The laser beams are models. They use c_move for their movement and collision detection. I have enabled event_entity and event_push for them. The physics object have their push value set to 99 and the laser beams' push is 1. Here is the event script:

Code:

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function laserShotEvent()
{
	if(event_type == event_entity || event_type == event_push)
	{
		if(you!=null)
		{
			if(you.ship_type!=laser_beam && you != my.creating_entity)
			{
				you.hit_points -= my.damage;
				my.sound_handle = ent_playsound(my,snd_impact_1,350);
				partFX_fireball();
				my.passable = on;
				my.alive = 0;
				return;
			}
			
		
				

				return;

		}
	}
}  

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From the manual, entities with a lower push value are supposed to be run over by the higher push value entity. In a collision the lower push entity's event_push should be actived and you set to the entity that ran over it.

What actually happens is that the physics entities with higher push will not run over entities with lower push. They will act as if they hit an imovable object and bounce away.

So your not using phyics, but you want to create the illusion of them, using events for the models.... Just wanted to clarify that your not using actual physics?

Presuming the above: Further clarification of the following.

You fire the laser at some asteroids, the laser model hits the asteroid model causing a push event, but at the same time the asteroids are causing an event on the laser?

When you handle an event, you could compare you.push to my.push and this would stop the wrong events getting triggered. Also you might want to look at other events, such as impact ...

Im still having trouble understanding what is working and what isn't.

Push, event_entity and event_push are only used when calling c_move/ent_move. They are not part of the physics collision detection. The physics collision system only checks for group membership (to ignore physics entities of the same group) and the passable flag.
Maybe you can make your lasers passable and use scan or trigger to find out if a physics entity is nearby?