An animated object that came from the store disappears after the
animations run. I verified it still exists on the map, in fact it will animate again
(becoming visible) but will also disappear again once animations stop.

Any ideas? .fpe? settings? quick fix?
BTW where to usually find these fpe files for store items?

Try setting the Occlusion slider to 0 in the " Tab " function in test game.

Thanks synchromesh. That did the trick of fixing it from disappearing!
Is that a .fpe setting? So now for some reason it has no collision, and it
functions as a door.
Tried to Destroy(e), Spawn(e) after animations. I thought this would reset it and
start from scratch, but it does not come back for some reason. Any more ideas
on that? I will look into the animations to see if something pops out.

i think they're
notanoccluder = 0/1
notanoccludee = 0/1
you could also try removing a few of the animation frames from the end in the fpe too - it usually happens when the object has 2 meshes and one goes behind the other (like a door closing behind another door or it's own frame)

This happened to me before when I miscounted the number of frames of animation in an object I made. You'd think it was simple but fragmotion always starts at frame 1 whereas GG starts at frame 0. So an object with animations up to frame 100 in Fragmotion will in fact only have animations up to frame 99 in GG. Try subtracting 1 from the frame number of the final animation in the fpe.

For example, if it says:

anim2 = 50,100

Try:

anim2 = 49,99

AE

Thanks for the help, kind people. That fixed the disappearing.
Anyone know about the setting for collisionmode ?--
collisionmode = 3

Still, only a small part in the middle retains collision, while
the edges have no collision-- strange hu?

Collisionmode

0 = box
1 = polygon
11 = none

There's loads of others, but they're the main ones. The rest are different shapes, i think theres spheres capsules and convex too.

Here you go, here's the list ...


// collisionmode:
// 0 ; box shape (default)
// 1 ; polygon shape
// 2 ; sphere shape
// 3 ; cylinder shape
// 9 ; convex hull reduction shape
// 11 ; no physics
// 12 ; no physics but can still be detected with IntersectAll command
// 21 ; player repel feature (for characters and other beasts/zombies)
// 40 ; collision boxes (defined in Import Model feature)
// 41-49 ; reserved (collision polylist, sphere list, cylinder list)
// 50 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 1/64th up from base of model
// 51 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 1/32th down from base of model
// 52 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 8/16th up from base of model
// 53 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 7/16th up from base of model
// 54 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 6/16th up from base of model
// 55 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 5/16th up from base of model
// 56 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 4/16th up from base of model
// 57 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 3/16th up from base of model
// 58 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 2/16th up from base of model
// 59 ; generate obstacle and cylinder from 1/16th up from base of model
// 1000-2000 ; only one limb has collision Box Shape (1000=limb zero,1001=limb one,etc)
// 2000-3000 ; only one limb has collision Polygons Shape (2000=limb zero,2001=limb one,etc)



collisionmode = 3 is cylinder collision, so yeah if your model isn't a rough cylinder then you won't get collision on some edges and corners.

(this info is also available in a text file n your documents folder)

Much help. Much thanks.

For cylinder collision mode the centre of the cylinder is the Y axis, so like a tree trunk or barrel for example.