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[rlmergeuser]

Then, I wanted it to destroy part of the course as well (a bridge over an open area). I put a trigger in the path of the hammer swing that has the "physics" property and tied it to all the pieces of the bridge that would be hit by the hammer. The trigger is placed as close to the bridge as possible so the hammer will trigger it right before it hits the bridge, allowing it to destroy the bridge (too close and the hammer hits the bridge and comes to a stop, which looks bad, too far away and the bridge pieces start falling too early which doesn't look right either. Took a bit of trial and error to get it just right).

So rider triggers plywood breakage which allows hammer to swing. Rider then must pass section of bridge in path of hammer before it swings. If the wait too long it destroys the bridge in front of them.

Haha, I did the exact same thing for my insidious track, my bridge was also a swinging bridge so people have to ride up the hanging end of the bridge once it has been broken. btw, note that rotation hinges activate triggers if you're going to put triggers above such a bridge.

[rlmergeuser]

Thanks all.... I figured it out now. I have tried applying the trigger to one of the hammers pieces before glueing it together, and that still doesn't seem to work, idk how you guys did that. But I rebuilt it with a piece of plywood as a stopper and it works great. I had a physics enabled object underneath the trigger for the stopper, and i think that's what was causing my system to fail. think they were intersecting actually)

Thanks again for all the tips guys!
-BTS

[rlmergeuser]

Typically, when I make a Hammer, Swing, or something like that, I turn the platform/hammerhead's physics off and make the trigger turn that on. All the other objects except for the rotation base I have to physics on, too. It works everytime. At least, for me.

[rlmergeuser]

before making the hammer attach the trigger to the head and then assemble everything normally and it works