Soft Body Physics - Ball is not falling instead just doing harmonic motion

tahseen · May 4, 2013, 9:31am

I made this rigid body static plane

And then a soft body ball. Got the vertex group thing also done

But when I animate, it just does harmonic motion and doesn’t fall. Why?

I used wind force via Empty, even then it is come down little bit and then again harmonic motion

Lommbard · May 4, 2013, 9:35am

Most likely you enabled “soft body goal”. If you have goal enabled, the softbody will try to conform to that goal.

tahseen · May 4, 2013, 6:17pm

Thanks Lommbard, you were right. I unchecked Soft Goal and it worked.

But now the new problem is that the ball went through the plane without colliding with it. The plane was a rigid-passive body

Lommbard · May 5, 2013, 2:54am

For a softbody to collide with another object, you have to make it a collision object in the physics tab.