Item float in the air

#1 What do you mean you want it to "float"? Do you want it to be moving somewhere? If you just want it to appear to hover above the ground, place the source mesh a little above the pivot point from wherever you exported it so it will be offset from the ground. If you mean you just want it to stay in the air wherever it's created, go into the source and add a variable that will keep it from doing it's basic gravity physics.

#2 I want to have one item and only one item to stay where I create it and wherever I move it later. When I use setTransform, the item drops to the ground. How do I add a variable to the source to ignore gravity? Also, does anyone know why setting gravityMod=0 has the item move slowly upward?
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#3 Gravity mod->0 makes the item ignore gravity so it floats upwards
Why don't you just raise the item in the world editor
What is the item?

#4 Use the item's "static" variable. I think that does what you need.

#5 The Item is a rock(or cube with texture). I would like to move the rock up in the air, then stay still(without floating up) then slowly move to a key hole(done by a wizard). When I use the schedule () function, the item moves along choppily and either tries to fall or rise because the gravity isnt correct. I can use world editor to have it float in midair until I move it.

#6 I think the static variable is just used by the item code to make it respawn or not, been a while though. Don't try to move objects with the schedule function, it's not what it's meant for and just makes problems. If you want something to move like that, I'd look up the resource for PathShape. I think you can use that to give the object a dynamic waypoint to move to. I don't know if that works with items, but it sounds like youl'd be better off with that and staticshapes anyways (since they don't have any gravity physics by default).

#7 Thank you, I will look into that.

#8

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I think the static variable is just used by the item code to make it respawn or not

Just for clarification, this is not correct. The static variable determines whether the item will drop to the ground or stay where it's placed. The one for respawning is 'respawn'.