I've been playing around with some really basic physics stuff since 6.40.2 and im having some very strange effects.

Simple physics object falling onto terrain works only when set as BOX or SPHERE, set to POLY it falls through.

Any ideas why?

Hi indiglow, I wrote this little barrel action and tryed it on a terrain with no issues. Make sure you have a block bounding box around the terrain, and I would wait to set gravity after all the entites have loaded, after level load:
Code:

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action barrel {
  phent_settype(me,ph_rigid,0);
  phent_setgroup(me,2); 
  phent_setmass(me,1,ph_poly); 
  phent_setfriction(me,20);
  phent_setdamping(my, 0,0);
  phent_setelasticity(me,50,100);
}

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Hope that helps you out.

-raiden

Will try as you suggest, and move gravity set till after objects are setup.
Thanks, will post how I get on, cheers.

The only difference in your code to mine, is the following:

phent_settype(me, ph_rigid, ph_poly) <- I was also adding ph_poly here, this seems to have been the problem as now the objects do not pass through the floor.

Thanks for that Raiden