So I wanted to make softbodies because I got bored of rigidbodies, but I have NO idea of where to start and what to do, help is appreciated.

Can you explain what softbodies, in Scratch terms, are? It's hard to help when you don't explain your inquiry!

orangetheory wrote:

Can you explain what softbodies, in Scratch terms, are? It's hard to help when you don't explain your inquiry!

A softbody is a body which is deformable, eg, Slime, Sponge etc, in reality nothing is a rigidbody because nothing can be non-deformable, but rigidbodies are used in programming to keep things simple.

This should probably be in advanced topics as you don't have specific script you need help with.

That said, it depends what you want to do. It's quite easy to model a bouncing soft ball compared to a bouncing rigid ball. You simply reduce the amount it bounces and animate it with a few costumes representing the squashed ball.

Slime would be modelled as a few particles. As the particles could move independently but as they get further from the other particles there would be more force pulling them back (and also pulling the other particles towards itself).. If something hits the slime then it would move the particle back and that would drag the other particles with it (that would resist the movement) and perhaps either bounce back or break off into another blob of slime.

You'd have to get creative with costumes or the pen to make it look good!

DavidJag wrote:

This should probably be in advanced topics as you don't have specific script you need help with.

That said, it depends what you want to do. It's quite easy to model a bouncing soft ball compared to a bouncing rigid ball. You simply reduce the amount it bounces and animate it with a few costumes representing the squashed ball.

Slime would be modelled as a few particles. As the particles could move independently but as they get further from the other particles there would be more force pulling them back (and also pulling the other particles towards itself).. If something hits the slime then it would move the particle back and that would drag the other particles with it (that would resist the movement) and perhaps either bounce back or break off into another blob of slime.

You'd have to get creative with costumes or the pen to make it look good!

So I understand what you are saying, but still have no clue on how to implement them, there must be some formulas right? Cause I want my project to be as realistic as possible, and I also am not willing to make 100 costumes.