Truss Designer component
Truss designer is used to edit Truss assets. To open Truss designer click Edit button next to the Truss property in the Soft Body inspector. This will add the Truss Designer component to your soft body object. This is editor only component and it’s not used at runtime. When you finished the Truss editing click Edit button again to remove the Truss Designer component from the soft body object. Note also that a Truss asset can be used by several soft bodies so when you edit a Truss all the soft bodies using it will be affected.
All Truss designer properties and commands are split to four tabs: Truss, Nodes, Links and Faces.
| Truss | Current Truss asset |
| Nodes | Number of nodes in the Truss asset |
| Links | Number of links in the Truss asset |
| Faces | Number of faces in the Truss asset |
| Create From Mesh | Create a Truss asset from a Mesh asset |
| Optimize For SIMD | Reorder nodes and links for more efficient SIMD instructions usage |
| Local Position | Position of selected node(s) in object's local frame |
| Node Mass | Mass of selected node(s) |
| Selection Mass | Total mass of all selected nodes |
| Create | Toggle node creation mode |
| Hide | Hide selected nodes |
| Unhide All | Unhide all hidden nodes |
| Delete | Delete selected nodes |
| Named Set | Select/add/remove nodes named set |
| Transform Selection | Translation/rotation/scale/clone to apply to selected nodes |
| Apply Transformation | Apply transformation |
| Spring Stiffness | Stiffness coefficient of selected link(s) |
| Spring Damping | Damping coefficient of selected link(s) |
| Elastic Deformation | Maximum absolute elastic deformation of selected link(s) |
| Stretching Limit | Maximum relative plastic stretching of selected link(s) |
| Create | Toggle link creation mode |
| Hide | Hide selected links |
| Unhide All | Unhide all hidden links |
| Delete | Delete selected links |
| Named Set | Select/add/remove links named set |
| Matter Index | Index in Matter array of a soft body for selected face(s) |
| Skinning Envelope | Skinning envelope of selected face(s) |
| Create | Toggle face creation mode |
| Hide | Hide selected faces |
| Unhide All | Unhide all hidden faces |
| Delete | Delete selected faces |
| Named Set | Select/add/remove faces named set |
| Flip | Flip selected face(s) normal direction |