Questions tagged [movement]
A simple term for "translation", the change of position of an entity typically on the route of going from point A to point B.
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How to mitigate when applying horizontal force to a rigidbody seems to overpower gravity?
I've started testing movement using the example code in this answer of making a body accelerate to a target velocity
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What are the dangers of setting rigidbody velocity directly for movement and what are the alternatives
I'm playing around with Unity, trying to make a neat 3rd person platformer movement system using rigidbodies so that I may in the future implement things like pushing boxes/physics objects, grappling ...
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Smooth out movement of the snake in a 2d Snake game
I am working on a 2-D snake game in C++ with the SFML library. I would like to smooth out the movement of my snake as it looks extremely choppy currently.
How the Snake moves
The snake is made up of a ...
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player softbody
I need some help with a softbody mechanic on a player in unity and I don't know how to approach it yet.
I want to try rigidbody collision on individual sections of the mesh, or mess with the cloth ...
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What is cutoff when calculating speed in this equation?
I saw a twitter post mention the following as way to make movement frame-rate independent:
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Top down four directional movement snap to tiles, not feel like crap
I want to make a topdown rpg movement, I need to update these parameters based on user input:
User input four directions: ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ .
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How do I make my character attack on the side of the character that I click the LMB on (Unity)?
This is a top-down game, I guess I should also mention that the character is not centred on the screen and the attack should be in 4 different directions. The attack's direction should be based on ...
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How to highlight edge of movement range
I am working on a small tactical game like X-com.
I now have a working-ish version and would like to treat myself to some aesthetic upgrades!
I have been thinking hard about the following but I can't ...
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How to make a moving camera in 2d with p5.js
I am trying to make a hill climb racing clone. My code: https://editor.p5js.org/saathvik/sketches/-XOFPcukt
When I move the car, I want the camera to follow the player, so he can't go off screen.
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Calculating framerate-independent values, for linear, quadratic, and exponential functions
There are a few similar posts, but they only deal with one of the three components I'm looking for, and none seem to handle the case of using a fixed step size (they're all about simulations which use ...
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Game physics of tearing apart
For a game I'm programming I'm looking for a kind of realistic mechanic for simulating the tearing apart of objects. Let me explain:
I have a given point p in a 2-dimensional space (possible later ...
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Smooth movement in point-to-move 2d game based on velocity [duplicate]
I have a real-time point-to-move 2D game with one playable character to control.
I want to create smooth player movement using physics and appropriate velocity.
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The player has a maximum ...
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Orthographic Camera Movement inside Rotated Boundary Rectangle Weird Behaviour [Unity3d]
Basically I have an orthographic camera that is looking at a simple square. The camera is sitting above the square and tilted by x: 45° and y: 45°, so the camera sees the square as a rhombus / diamond ...
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Godot: Move_and_slide_with_snap not working on slopes
My Problem
I am currently building a platformer game. I was attempting to use move_and_slide_with_snap for the first time and can't find it working for me. My character does snap to the ground like I ...
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Math: determining a proper procedural vector for sine-movement
My Problem
Suppose you have an object moving along the x-axis, wobbling up and down. Movement code might look like this:
x += 1;
y = Sin(x);
Move((x,y) * speed);
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Implement navmesh for climbing cliffs and walls
I am trying to implement dynamic wall climbing similar to Conan exiles and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
My system as of now uses a raycast to get the direction of a geometry's normal, and I ...
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How to create a projectile path in unity using physics
I want to create a jump function that launches a RigidBody2D along a low, long, trajectory. In the following examples, I have set the linear and angular drag to 0, to eliminate any possibility of ...
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Calculate the aircraft's movement path in which its side speed is required
I am working on an implementation problem in which given an aircraft and the objective of the system is to find the quickest route (optimal in terms of time) from point A (contains the information of ...
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Move objects in array with positions array
I am trying to get a line of spheres to move around but all i get is the first sphere to move and get the rest to follow as one instead of building a sort of a train of spheres. Any idea how to alter ...
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How do I stop my player or camera from jittering during player movement?
In my game, I have a third person character. The player moves with a rigidbody and has isKinematic set off with interpolate on. In the script, it moves with ...
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Attach movement to each list object
How would i move every sphere that gets spawned every 2 seconds ? Basically i want every sphere to follow the previous spawned sphere or even all N-1 spheres should follow the first spawned sphere ...
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Roguelike movement system
I'm trying to implement a roguelike movement system for my game. I'm using the ECS architecture.
The requirements are:
entities will have a mass, on which should slow down the entity
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Jumping up quicker? (Paper Mario style jump)
As shown here, Paper Mario's jump takes 8 frames go reach the max jump height and 12 frames to get back to the ground. This is pretty unusual, any idea how to jump up that quick with a rigidbody?
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AntiGravity Vehicle?
I'm making a racing game akin to F-Zero and Mario Kart 8 with AG mechanics. I currently have a vehicle that is a rigidbody with normal gravity pointing down. True to AG games, I want the gravity to ...
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ECS: Movement system
I'm a game developer enthusiast. I've decided to implement a game, however I'm pretty confused about all the movement mechanics (kinematics). Here goes a couple questions:
Velocity x acceleration x ...
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Rotating gradually in response to input, instead of snapping
I'm trying to replicate Silent Hill's mechanic where if you press a button, the character does a 180, but instead of getting a smooth turn around, my character is snapping from one rotation to another....
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Gradual strafe rotation with focus on mouse (circle-strafe)
I'm pretty new to Unity and C# programming, and am trying to get a player-controlled object to do a controlled rotation around the mouse pointer. The functional purpose is to be able to circle-strafe ...
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How to calculate a movement Vector3 to kill unnecessary momentum and start moving in the right direction?
Imagine a rocket is accelerating in a straight line toward PointA, picking up momentum every frame, then suddenly decides it wants to go toward PointB instead.
It can't just turn straight toward ...
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How can I get the speed of finger drag using unity TouchPhase.Moved?
I'm making a mobile game where you control a 3d ball by touch. So far I can get it to roll based on finger down and drag (via TouchPhase.Moved) but I want to be able to detect a fast flick or finger ...
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How can I get the basic Unity player controller to move based on a gameobjects rotation?
I am making a basic movement script based off of the built in playercontroller in Unity. I am trying to get the Player gameobject to move forward based on its own rotation (i.e. if it is rotated to 90 ...
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Apply external effects to player movement
In a 2D downhill game with the following, custom movement code, how do I apply external effects to the player's movement?
For example, when the player hits an obstacle, I want them to get bounced off ...
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Why is my movement not smooth and jagged?
My game isn't smooth, it runs at 60 fps but has quick lag spikes just under every second. I really can't figure out why. I have a feeling it's to do with my player movement code.
My rigidbody's ...
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My character is not switching right or left like subway surfer in 2D?
I am making a 2D subway surfer type of game right now and I found this code on the internet that switches the lane of the player but the problem is it doesn't switch. When I play the scene it won't ...
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Why doesn't this movement script work, while the other one does?
Im trying to get a rigidbody2D to move around and got it working with this script:
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move along given path relative to the inital position
how can I move an object along a path "relative" to its inital position? I want it so if the object is initially positioned "around" the path instead of in the center, it will move along the path ...
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Javascript snake game, configurable section distance
I want to make a snake game.
In a classic game the snake moves in 4 directions, I want the player to move in all directions by mouse input, similar to slither.io
Right now the tail section changes ...
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Clamping after forcing aspect ratio
I'm using the following script to force aspect ratio of 16:9:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/force-camera-aspect-ratio-16-9-in-viewport.385541/
It works perfectly. However now my game objects are ...
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Movements don't work the way it should
I'm trying to make some basic animation, but I ran into this problem. Whenever I move with WASD, it teleports instead of doing the walking animation. Also the idle plays only one time, then it stops:
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Moving object along X and Z plane relative to camera
Using keys, I'm trying to move a cursor object across the X and Z plane, keeping it relative to a camera that I can orbit around the playfield.
This is my code so far, and apologies...I'm about 2 ...
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Is Updating Sprite/Entity Movement Using Framerate Necessary?
Apologies if this is a dumb question I'm still new to this, but I'm trying to understand if calculations of sprite movements/hitboxes/etc. is necessary or is generally better than just using fixed ...
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How do I select my platform and move them in a specific place in gameplay?
I saw this game called TaniNani and I was amazed by the concept of the game and I would like to try to replicate it!
My goal is to let the player hover on the available grid (somehow like hovering ...
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Unity: AddForce in transform.forward direction not working as expected
I am building a very simple car-driving game in Unity.
I have a Player object, which looks like this:
As you can see, I have a Rigidbody2d component attached to this object, as well as a script, ...
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Clamp 2d not working in Main scene (Godot3.2)
In Godot3.2,clamp2d(Player) works in standalone scene but doesn't work when instanced in Main scene(both as Child node through Scene ui and as a Packed Scene ...
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Why does rb.velocity blurrs background?
My player controller code is bellow. So is my player inspector. This makes my character move yet it blurs the background, but when I use ...
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Character either stuck in idle or character animation in unity
Im making my first game in unity. And Now I have this problem: my character is stuck in his running animation and I can't move him at all (when I'm trying to play the game). There is also this weird ...
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Player losing alignment with tilemap after moving
I'm using an isometric tilemap(2:1) and I can't figure out how to make grid based movement on it's surface. I managed to get a code working for the grid based movement, moving my character with 0.5 ...
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How to increase points per second when speed increases
I am making an endless rider game that is crossed between tron legacy and cube field. I am trying to add a point system were the faster you go the more points you get because you are more likely to ...
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What is the better form of movement for a vehicle that the player is inside of?
I am using unreal engine 4 to make this. Basically I have a submarine that the player can move around in and can control the submarines movement within an ocean. However I don't know the best way to ...
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How to check public bool of different script in C# - Unity [duplicate]
I seem to have some trouble with a problem that I feel should be really simple, but I've been beating my head against this for a few hours and I can't seem to figure out what the hurtle is. What I'm ...
