Separating people help.

Ok I'm having a few problems in my game to do with spacing of troops.

I want to be able to select people and move them to one spot and have them spread out(not be on top of each other!)they get there.

Is there a (hopefully easy) way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

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did you try making the troops solids

I have but it makes the guys hit into each other and bounce away.

(I'm using bullet behaviour.)

You can set immovable to yes, but only if you don't need other collisions/forces to act on the guys.

What type of game is it for?...RTS?...are you wanting a formation or just stop them blobbing together while moving?

Yep.

To stop them blobbing together.

set the bullet behavior to not bounce of solids

Now this is interesting...

When bounce is on guys bounce away but when bounce is off they pile up.

This is quite the problem.

try physics behavior

That created gravity which I can't stop and whenever I select and move a guy he spins around in circles and gravity pulls him off the screen.

That created gravity which I can't stop and whenever I select and move a guy he spins around in circles and gravity pulls him off the screen.

can set world gravity to 0 then gravity won't effect you

> That created gravity which I can't stop and whenever I select and move a guy he spins around in circles and gravity pulls him off the screen.

can set world gravity to 0 then gravity won't effect you

exactly, are they spinning around if gravity is 0??

I've done everything you've said and it's kinda worked???

Instead of bouncing they slide slowly when they hit each other.

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adding more forces is not going to help probably make it worse....

and you don't want lots of physics objects as this will kill performance, not good for RTS...

I tried this with promising results...

troops on collision with troops...rotate random(-45,45) towards random (360)

this assumes the troops are rotating towards a predetermined angle using only bullet behavior...

what action do I use to do that?

Sorry I'm a noob!