moving vertices that were hit

i want to make this deformable object, some kind of organic looking cell that when you hit it, the spot that you hit shrinks away from the bullet.

i wonder if there's an example of this anywhere?

i think i see the basic components i'm supposed to use but an example of mesh deformation in the spot where something hits the mesh, would really save a ton of time

The castle demo has terrain that responds to damage I think.

I never knew that - don't think it does - unless I completely overlooked it.

Yes, it does.

The commands you would use to do this include CollisionTriangle and TriangleVertex to determine which vertices to move, and then VertexCoords to move them.

Hah, so it does - I never knew that.

I smell a 'Magic Carpet' clone coming out of the woodwork here.


EDIT:
I never spotted it before because the controls are so bad.

hmm thanks, but still confused. the docs are incredibly opaque when it comes to vertices, etc.

in BULLETS.bb:

cc=CountCollisions(b\piv)
If cc > 0
For collisionindex=1 To cc 		
	entity=CollisionEntity(b\piv,collisionindex)
	ID=GetEntityType(entity)
	Select ID
	Case T_GENERATOR

	g.generator = Object.generator(EntityName(entity))
	generatorHIT(g.generator,b.bullet_type,collisionindex)
...

now generatorHIT is:

Function generatorHIT(g.generator,b.bullet_type,collisionindex)

   tcol=CollisionTriangle ( g\model,collisionindex )
   scol=CollisionSurface ( g\model,collisionindex )
   VertexCoords scol,tcol,VertexX#(scol,tcol),VertexY#(scol,tcol),VertexZ#(scol,tcol)+3
	
End Function

I get vertex index out of range on vertexcoords. I don't see where TriangleVertex comes into play. It says it returns a vertex, but what do you do with that? What's that number even mean? is that one particular corner of the triangle? is that a different index than the tcol index?

i think i see what's going on, but the docs again are extremely poor in regard to this topic.

:(

any help greatly appreciated!

i changed it to this

	 	tcol=CollisionTriangle ( g\model,collisionindex )
	 	scol=CollisionSurface ( g\model,collisionindex )
	 	tvert=TriangleVertex ( scol,tcol,Rand(1,3) ) ; which specific vertext to move.  just picking 1st one for now.
		VertexCoords scol,tvert,VertexX#(scol,tvert),VertexY#(scol,tvert),VertexZ#(scol,tvert)+5

and it seems to work.

well i hope this code helps someone equally lost on moving verts