How to separate coins for use with rigid body physics?

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July 21, 2021 at 2:09 pm #14204
mailmetothemoon
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My coins are made of two objects with two materials (gem embedded coins) I’ve combined them. Then I set up the arrays, and all that worked well, but when it came time to separate them with the P command, it slices them all apart. The gems fall off, etc.

What can I do to fix this?
July 21, 2021 at 5:38 pm #69797
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Interesting problem…

You will need to make the coin and gem into one Object. There are at least two ways to do this:

Use CTRL+J to combine the gem with the coin. Then you SHIFT+D and move it followed by SHIFT+R several times to make more cons. You’d have a selection problem if you would have used an Array Modifier with this method….

The other way is to take the coin and use a Boolean Modifier to connect the gem to the Coin. Then Apply the Modifier and then make the two materials and delete the original gem. Now use the Array Modifier method.
July 22, 2021 at 5:33 am #69798
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I’ll have to try the boolean modifier next time! I think that’s what I needed!Thanks!

What I ended up doing is your first suggestion, where I just joined them and duplicated them by hand.

Turned out well in the end!

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