boat problem

[bernhard]

okay, I could find out, that the XForm Reset is very important, you have to do that if you scale the object.

About the sinking ship. I just scaled the 2nd boat a little bit, but that also decreased the weight, I didn't change. Hmm, It seems to be, that this value is very accurate. On my first boat, I've used 200kg.

The second boat, is not the half from the first, but it works best with 50% of the weight from the 1st boat, so I've used 100kg.

the boat is now on the water, it's not sinking any more, here is the image:


as you can see, I have the boat now on the water, but the next challenge is to get the boat horizontal to the sea surface. I really have no clue, what I have to change, and which point is responsible for that.

Is it the pivot point from the object ?
or is it just the shape of the object ?
or is it anything else ?

To see the problem much better, here the animation:
http://www.bernhardrieder.com/ask/front_in_water.avi

the front of the boat is under water.... uff... what I can do ? hock:

thx,
bernhard