Objects Sinking When Made Physical

Heya,

I have a question that is most likely been asked before but searching the forums didn't reveal any answers. In addition, I couldn't find anything in the knowledge base either.

Why are my objects sinking into the ground when I make them physical? I am sure that this is simply something I am doing wrong but I can't seem to find any way to fix it. I would appreciate any help or a pointer to the solution.

Thank you in advance.

Love and Kisses,
Tanly

Hm. I thought I'd be familiar enough with this, but at the least I'd need more details to be sure...
-By "ground" do you indeed mean "terrain"? NOTHING physical should sink through the terrain, but phantom physical objects do fall through everything else.
-Does this happen to involve sculpted prims? Sculpties don't have an accurate physical shape, so they may have portions that can appear to sink underground.

Capturing and attaching a screenshot would answer these questions and more.

Hi,

What's happening is that I'm able to walk through the walls of the tent, and I only want to be able to walk through the door. But whenever I make it physical it sinks into the terrain (goes mostly underground).

I made the doorway as a seperate prim and attached it to the rest, but when it starts sinking, the doorway stays put, knocking the roof cockeyed.

I attached screenshots so you can see what's going on. Hopefully that will help you tell me what's going on.

Thanks!

Your tent doesn't need to be physical - iit should NOT be physical.

However, physical things shouldn't sink into the ground.

A guess:

You have rezzed the tent slightly above the ground.
You turn it physical; it drops to the ground.
The top is not linked to the bottom and slips cockeyed.

Solution:

Put your tent on the ground.
Make sure ONLY THE DOOR PRIM IS PHANTOM.
Don't make anything physical.

And don't put the phantom prim in the linkset that the other prims are in. That has a tendecny to make some of the regular prims phantom also..........in a random sort of way. Unless, of course, they have fixed.........that possibly with the new Havak 4 engine?

I thought she understood you can't link phantom to nonphantom prims without the linkset turning phantom (since her door is unlinked), but perhaps she didn't. Good for you for mentioning it

The trick -- don't make the "door" phantom directly. Just make it flexi, but *before* linking to the rest of the build.

For some reason this seems to work better than only making the prim phantom.

I've had mixed results in the past doing that - well, worse than mixed, but p'raps I'll check in case things've changed.

It may still be hit or miss, but it does work more predictably than linking regular phantom stuff. And it doesn't work to make the prim flexi after it's been linked.

I typically use it to add flexi moss or posters that blow in the wind to existing builds.