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Physics Asset Editor - Tools and Profiles

User guide for the Tools and Profiles properties inside the Physics Asset Editor.

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Tools Tab

The Tools tab enables you to perform batch edits of your Physics Asset. It includes being able to add, generate or re-generate bodies for the entire skeleton or selected bodies in the Skeleton Tree.

Body Creation Settings

The following options are available when creating or editing primitive shapes, size, and more for bodies:


Property	Description
Min Bone Size	Bones that are shorter than this value will be ignored for body creation.
Primitive Type	The geometry type that should be used when creating bodies. Box Capsule Sphere Single Convex Hull Multi Convex Hull
Vertex Weighting Type	How vertices are mapped to bones when approximating them with bodies. Any Weight Dominant Weight
Auto Orient to Bone	Whether to automatically orient the created bodies to their corresponding bones.
Walk Past Small Bones	Whether to skip small bones entirely (rather than merge them with the adjacent bones).
Create Body for All Bones	Forces creation of a body for each bone.
Advanced Properties
Min Weld Size	Bones that are smaller than this value will be merged together for body creation.
Hull Accuracy	When creating convex hulls, the target accuracy of the created hull.
Max Hull Verts	When creating convex hulls, the maximum verts that should be created.

Constraint Creation Settings

The following options are available when creating or editing the constraints of bodies:

Property

Description

Create Joints

Whether to create constraints between adjacent created bodies.

Angular Constraint Mode

The type of angular constraints to create between bodies.


Free	No constraint against this axis.
Limited	Limited freedome along this axis.
Locked	Fully constraint against this axis.

Body Generation Options

Once the properties have been set for the Body Creation and Constraint Creation categories, any selected bodies, constraints, or bones will display an action to add, generate, or re-generate bodies.


Button
	All phyiscs bodies and constraints will be re-created.
	When a constraint is selected, this button will enable all bodies and constraints to be recreated using the new settings.
	Selected bodies will be replaced along with their constraints using the new settings.

Profiles Tab

The Physics Asset Profiles tab enables you to view, select, and edit a collection of settings for Physical Animations and Constraints that can be saved to profiles which can then be assigned to the selected bodies or constraints in the Skeleton Tree.

For additional information, see the Using Profiles for Bodies and Constraints page.

Current Profile

The Current Profile drop-down is where you'll find any new or existing profiles that have been created. When the profile is selected, options to remove it from the list of profiles, and assign or unassign it from the selected bodies or constraints will become available.


Option	Description
New	Creates a new profile that has properties set and can be assigned to bodies or constraints.
Delete	Removes the custom profile when it is set as the Current Profile selection.
Assign	Assigns the selected bodies or constraints to the Current Profile selection.
Unassign	Unassigns the selected bodies or constraints from the Current Profile selection.

Some options are available for the Current Profile by clicking the arrow drop-down.


Option	Description
Duplicate	Copies the currently set profile.
Set Current Constraint Profile	Select from the currently created profiles the one to be used as the Current Profile to assign, unassign, or delete.

Current Profile Assignment

When bodies or constraints are assigned a profile, there are a couple of places that you can check the status of the assignment:

From the Details panel
From the Graph

In the Details panel, the Current Profile being used for the selected body will be listed. When there isn't a profile assigned, it will be listed as None.



Unassigned Profile	Assigned Profile

In the Graph, the selected bodies and their constraints will be displayed. The shading of the bodies and constraints will be based on which profile is selected as the Current Profile.

For example, the Graph is showing the selected body and constraints, while the Profiles tab is showing the Current Profile for Physical Animation set to MyPhysicalAnimation_Profile which is assigned to two of the four bodies in the Graph. When the Current Profile selected is assigned to a node, it will have unshaded fill color, and when the node is not assigned that profile, it will appear shaded. The constraints displayed all appear with their fill color since the Current Profile for Constraints is set to None.

For additional information about the nodes in the Graph, see the Constraints Graph page.

Physical Animation Profiles

When Bodies are selected and assigned a Physical Animation profile, the following options will become available:


Property	Description
Is Local Simulation	Whether the drive targets are in world or local space.
Orientation Strength	The strength used to correct orientation error.
Angular Velocity Strength	The strength used to correct angular velocity error.
Position Strength	The strength used to correct linear position error. Only used for non-local simulation.
Velocity Strength	The strength used to correct linear velocity . Only used for non-local simulation.
Max Linear Force	The max force used to correct linear errors.
Max Angular Force	The max force used to correct angular errors.

Constraint Profiles

When Constraints are selected and assigned a Constraints Profile, the following options will become available:

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For additional information, visit the Constraints Reference page.

Thumbnail

Control how the thumbnail image for the Physics Asset should appear in the Content Browser. You can control the Pitch, Yaw, and Zoom of the thumbnail.

When the Thumbnail pitch, yaw, and zoom values are adjusted the thumbnail in the Content Browser will update in real time.

Physics

The following options are available that will apply to all assigned profiles.


Property	Description
Use Async Scene	If true, bodies of the physics asset will be put into the asynchronous physics scene. If false, they will be put into the synchronous physics scene.