Im quite new to jitter (and computer animation too) so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

A sphere object is colliding with a plane (a floor in a 3d world). This sphere is a soft ball. I know that jit.phys.body can make it act like a bouncing soft ball physically speaking. But is there a way of making the surface and structure of the sphere itself change when it collides and then retrieve it's original structure afterwards?

I'm thinking if there exists an object that could have been called jit.phys.surface or .structure or something :-)

Or, of course, a work-around that makes this "elastic structure" of a 3d model possible.

Hi everyone,
Im quite new to jitter (and computer animation too) so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

I'm thinking if there exists an object that could have been called jit.phys.surface or .structure or something :-)
Or, of course, a work-around that makes this "elastic structure" of a 3d model possible.

3d-model-elastic-structure

soft-bodies are not currently supported in jit.phys.

you could create your own structure using constraints and simple rigid bodies, but that might be overly complex. you could also simply animate the geometry mesh to change shape on collision.

soft-bodies are not currently supported in jit.phys.
you could create your own structure using constraints and simple rigid bodies, but that might be overly complex. you could also simply animate the geometry mesh to change shape on collision.


Thanks a lot. Using constraints and rigid bodies sounds quite complex yes. I think I will try the animation solution to start out with and see how that looks and feels for the purpose I will be using it for.

@Kristina
Did you mean something like this: 


3d model - "elastic" structure