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I got physics working on my terrain mesh tonight!

I only have barrels at the moment, no vehicles. However, this is due to deficiencies in other parts of my server, not the physics module. Once I improve that (which shouldn’t take very long, it’s just annoying to do at 2am), I’ll finally have the jeep in this old pic working.

A few other notes

• The barrels in those screenshots are actually being simulated as spheres, despite the red box outline. Yeah, I know. Spheres roll better, though
• The very first barrel I created when the system was working well enough to let it go anywhere got some fairly serious speed (and air!), taking a good ~10min to come to rest. As the crow flies, it traveled 15.3km.
• I should perhaps make the gravity stronger. I suspect this is not how barrels are supposed to act.
• That old screenshot I linked above looks really primitive looking compared to the current system. And it’s only 10 days old!