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Why is my tank flipping over when I ram a small tree or a succulent, and not the other way around?

TL;DRVehicles flipping on small plants is a system limitation, since it cannot tell different vehicles apart for collision, though a planned improvement should eventually decide collision automatically from an asset's bounding box.

Maximilian KeilichSenior Environment Artist, Planet Content Team

It wasn't one of us, but that's more a limitation of the system, where it can't differentiate between the golf cart vehicle that we have and the rover, for example. So we understand that that's frustrating. And it's also tricky for us to get that right with some of the randomization values that we have, where a small rock that the golf cart would get stuck on, or that you would expect the golf cart to get stuck on, but the rover to drive through... We have to decide on one or the other. For now. Eventually, the system is going to get improvements. It's going to automatically check, for example based on the bounding box, if an asset is supposed to have collision or not have collision. But for now, we understand it's a bit of a problem. So we try to avoid that. Little succulents make the vehicles flip, which is unfortunate.

Sebastian SchroederPrincipal Technical Environment Artist, Planet Content Team

And we can't wait for the succulents to start exploding when you drive over them. Hopefully it will happen.

Star Citizen Live›Planet Content Team Q&A·
Published on this date.11 Feb 2022