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Hi guys!

I am hoping to simulate robotics vehicles on Deformable Terrain in CoppeliaSim but I can't seem to find any information regarding this. Does anybody know whether this is possible? e.g. having wheel slip, side slip, bulldozing forces etc.

Vortex Engine (by CM-Labs) seems to be able to simulate deformable terrain, thus I was wondering if I would be able to obtain the terrain through using Vortex Engine as the physics engine. I have the EDU licensed of Vortex installed on my computer, but I couldn't find any option in CoppeliaSim that allows me set a deformable terrain.

Hope that someone could provide some advice on this! Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Samuel

Hello Samuel,

CoppeliaSim unfortunately doesn't implement that functionality from the Vortex engine. So this is currently not possible to have a deformable terrain.

Cheers

is there a workaround? dynamically modify the mesh upon some event

If you can subdivide your terrain in patches, and can approximate every patch with a simple object (cuboid, sphere) which is dynamically enabled...

You can move dynamically enabled objects by directly applying forces/torques, or by attaching them to joints and moving the joint.

This approach would work in every physics engine.