Alternately, an alternative suggestion would be to have Slots also have a "Starting Pickable" selector, which will automatically grab the starting pickable to fill the slot.

If the level designer makes the starting pickable also the accepted key they can then have the slot disable itself when the key is picked up, preventing it from being snapped back on. It also means you can have, for example, a block on a pedestal that starts in the slot, so you have to remove it before you can add other keys to that slot, which could be a good way to indicate to players that it IS actually a slot.

The issue in my tests is throwing an object with an item in a slot ends up with the slotted item still experiencing physics.

You can already do a starting pick-able by careful placement in the editor.

Huh, I thought you could plop pickables into Slots that are just randomly in space and they'd stay in the air. Maybe I just haven't experimented enough with them.

In that case, having a "Start as Static" option for a Pickable would be useful.

Hi. That's an interesting suggestion. I'll note it and we'll see can we work to get it implemented in a way.

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There is a workaround, which is probably a glitch that I hope won't get fixed, or it'll cause many rooms to break. You need to first select the pickable object as a key and then give it an animation with a 'pickable' parameter. No need to set any actual animation. This way you'll achieve the exact behavior you want, you can even attach the object to a moving parent or have it move on its own.

You can also use this trick with triggers, allowing for some more complex mechanics, no need to make them pickable there. I used it to create a 'lights out' game and a 'connect the pipe' game in the room I submitted.

I suppose this could easily be turned into a feature if locks just allowed items with a 'pickable' trait to be naturally selected, and similarily if triggers were able to be triggered by anything, and not just players and pickables.

I'm looking for different actions than that.

Originally posted by Thoroniul:

I'm looking for different actions than that.

Not sure what you mean, with the workaround I provided you can do exactly what you described - clip a pickable item into another one without the physics activating. Admittedly it is sometimes not easy to pick that item up unless you do some animation and move it out of that object, but that wouldn't be something that 'static until picked up' would change.

The physics doesn't activate, but the object sill experiences physics. If you throw an item with a pickable configured this way, the item will fall out of the puzzle box.