Moving conveyorbelt

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1

Hi,
Noob here with a question about conveyorbelts.
I searched and found a really nice solution (so far). I hacked the code a bit so I can activate/deactivate my conveyorbelt with a keypress;

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ConveyorBelt : MonoBehaviour {

	public float speed = 2.0f;
	public float distanceTravelled = 0f;

	void FixedUpdate()
	{

		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.X)){
			Rigidbody rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody> ();
			rigidbody.position -= transform.forward * speed * Time.deltaTime;
			rigidbody.MovePosition (rigidbody.position + transform.forward * speed * Time.deltaTime);

			distanceTravelled += speed * Time.deltaTime;
		}
	}

}

now, I made a box, with a boxcollider and a (kinematic) rigidbody, attached the script and it works great when the conveyorbelt is at a fixed position in my scene, i place some rigidbodies on it and they move nice 'n smooth… but… i’d like to attach it to my vehicle, so i can slide those rigidbodies off it whenever I need to… The problem is that the rigidbodies don’t ‘stick’ to my conveyorbelt when i start moving around.
I hope my description is clear, and if someone could give me a hint on how to approach this.

cheers!
Mike

2

I am a noob as well but to do this on a moving platform you make the object a child of the moving object to make it move with it. I would imagine that the conveyor would be the same. You would have to unchild the item where you want it to fall off.