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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Rolling a circle around a square
I am stuck on a simple Box2D task. I have a box and a ball (in top-down view so no gravity), and I would like the ball to roll around the box.
Here is my code. Basically now I am trying to detect ...
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How do I make my 3d cube move left and right with buttons in Unity with RigidBody.AddForce?
How do I make my 3d cube move left and right with buttons in Unity with RigidBody.AddForce()?
I can't figure out how to do this in Unity!
I'm trying to make my game ...
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can't achieve a smooth movement with ShapeRender
I am using ShapeRender to render Circles and in the update function on every loop I update the coordinates that represent my ...
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Implement a scale factor to apply to UCharacterMovementComponent::JumpZVelocity in Unreal Engine 4
I'm creating a my own movement component inherited by UCharacterMovementComponent.
I should implement a scale factor (I called it JumpZVelocityScale) to apply the JumpZVelocity (and I don't want ...
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How do the PhysWalking and similar functions actually handle input?
As the title may suggest, I'm developing a CustomMovementComponent and I'm on the stage where I am developing my own PhysCustom ...
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In a MovementComponent, where should I initialize member variables?
I have a MovementComponent derived from CharacterMovementComponent
MovementComponent, ...
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How to use a derivative of CharacterMovementComponent
I'm developing a 3rd person platformer.
My Character class (the default third person template class):
PlatformerCharacter : ACharacter
My MovementComp class:
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Add touch screen support to tile navigation
I saw this awesome tutorial that is related to Grid-based Movement in Godot
What I want is to add touch screen support for this kind of movement i.e. with virtual on screen joystick or gestures.
How ...
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How to handle forward/backward movement in an oblique top-down view
I'm making a pseudo-2D top-down game, where my assets are actually 3d but I use an orthographic projection to introduce more depth.
I saw a picture of how the game "Enter the Gungeon" was actually ...
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Smoothing long paths with splines
What is the best way to smooth a long path with splines?
I first implemented a Bezier curve but then realised that I would have to join a lot of them.
I used A* on a weighted grid so I can't use ...
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Higher order splines for use with pathfinding
In this page, Amit explains that splines can be used to achieve movement on a found path.
In the picture below, he explains that:
The blue paths use splines, with dark blue being low order ...
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How does CharacterMovementComponent::PerformMovement work?
I'm developing an adventure platformer. As such, the manipulation etc. of the CharacterMovementComponent is going to be crucial to the game.
I have seen the more ...
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Move a ball horizontally left and right but restricting forwards and backwards motion unity 2d
I am trying to develop an endless runner where there is a sphere as the player and it is moving left and right following the position of a finger on a touch screen. However, when I try to do this I ...
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Simple 2d Movement (Non platformer)
This seems so simple but my searching as failed to find a good result.
The idea is that you can move in 360 degrees but you aren't faster when you move in a diagonal direction. I know how to do this ...
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Why is my player movement code not working?
I'm trying to make my 2D character able to float around the screen, but my code isn't working:
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How to get the actor to follow the mouse while clicking and holding?
I am trying to do the top down project from scratch.
I can already get the actor to move toward the mouse click:
Only I need to keep clicking several times to change its path and keep walking ...
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Calculating stopping distance while turning
I need to calculate the movement of an object that is slowing down to approach its destination while turning. Calculating the linear stopping distance and deceleration is straightforward. However if ...
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Tile based smooth snake movement
while making my own Snake implementation I decided to use delta time for smoothing movement on screen. The problem is that before Snake was moving fixed amount of pixels every frame, but now when ...
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Calculation of distance while switching between two speeds
There are two speed values, that are used by moving object. After a while speed switching occurs from V1 to V2. I need the formula that can be used for calculation of current distance (at specified ...
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Unity 2D game object moving up in curve?
How can I make a rigidbody2d game object moving up curve like the attached screenshot?
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Unity 2D: Smooth ease-out movement on grid
I'm trying to create a grid movement in Unity, as where the player will ease-out on a tile when stopping, but I can't seem to get it right. I need a little nudge in the right direction for how to ...
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Unity: Move Collider up stairs/ramps
The bots have a simple Capsule collider which cannot tilt. Movement is applied across the horizontal axes, gravity is enabled on the rigidbody. It moves up stairs okay with steps roughly 0.2 units ...
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Unity 2D launch player towards mouse location
few notes:
I'm new to game development
I'm not new to developing (1 year of front end web development)
I'm trying to get my character to launch towards mouse left click button (which I understood to ...
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How do I prevent players from flying too low in an infinite sky?
Let's say I have a game that allows the player completely free, open world flight, and the world itself is a bunch of floating islands. This creates some problems with flying too low, such as reaching ...
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Character doesnt move along with his rotation
Decided to change my character movement from transform.Translate to a rigidbody movement, the only problem is that my character is not moving to where he is facing, also it falls really slowly in the ...
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Verlet chain with two fixed points is not converging properly
I am trying to create a simple chain between two fixed endpoints. The problem is that I can't seem to get the chain to reach a stable state. Further, the chain is always biased toward one of the ...
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Improve velocity obstacle calculation algorithm/performance
My goal
My goal is to calculate the (velocity) obstacle that is imposed by unit B onto unit A.
So I want to calculate the velocities from the center of unit A (circle) that will lead to a collision ...
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Make a bullet move towards the mouse position
Before you give me a link to another post look first, just in case.
So I'm making a top down game where the person can shoot around, I want the bullets to move towards the mouse, I have tried this:
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Why is not the projectile going toward the target?
I have a project where I can shoot (with a simple projectile).
Character Blueprint (generate projectile):
However I would like to be able to make the projectile go towards a specific target.
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NPC Melee fighting movement issue
So i have been struggling with this for ages and I have now decided to reach out for help.
The Problem:
The game has two NPCs for reference we will call them "Ally" and "Enemy"
Ally and Enemy each ...
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Problem making shooting follows an actor/object
At first I created an actor to be a projectile, he acts with a simple projectile. When generated it goes straight, anyway...
To do this, I added the Projectile Movement component.
It turns out that ...
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How to ensure my Sine Wave movement starts from the middle-line of the wave
I am trying to make an enemy for a space game which has Sine style movement. I pretty much have it working how I want, but right now I have to manually fiddle with the 't' value to make the wave ...
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Using delta time for movement
I'm currently involved in a college assignment where we must create a game with our own game engine. In my game, we have an enemy moving around with paths constructed with a A* algorithm. Every frame ...
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Rotating a vehicle to match a 2D slope
I have a vehicle that needs to move on a randomly generated terrain and handle slopes. I'm not using wheels, but instead moving the vehicle with velocity. The ideal case would be if I can make the ...
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Monogame - Collision not working and invisible walls
I have recently been experimenting with Monogame and XNA (moving from Gamemaker) and decided to work on a simple collision system. Problem is shown in the GIF.
Main Collision
Each entity (Quick name ...
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Seek a point with a final velocity
I've read a little bit about steering behaviours and I want to implement something similar to seeking, except that I would like my object to arrive at the target at its maximum speed in a specific ...
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FPS Character Controller movement - Any value in reverse engineering movement formulas?
From what I know character movement in popular FPS games tend to be non-linear, but the easing curves change between games as each has its own signature formula.
Typically I imagine the physics ...
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3D player movement with Unity's new input system
So, I trying to get used to the new Unity input system. "Back in the days" I just got the Vertical/Horizontal axis, put them into a Vector3, multiplied them by a certain value and then moves the ...
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The camera goes up and down when following a rolling sphere
I have this CameraController script attached to my camera, to follow a sphere that moves using WSAD.
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Prevent Wall Clipping with Bouncing Shape
I'm currently working on a demo-type program involving bouncing objects. Currently, I have a rectangle that can bounce around the screen.
When the rectangle bounces against one of the walls ...
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How to design components for tile-based movement in an RPG using ECS
I'm trying to re-write a small game of mine using ECS mostly for educational purposes and to see if it fits top-down RPG games in the style of Pokemon (gameboy). Since everything is tile based, ...
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SDL2 Block collision with player Bug
I am currently working on a small 2D Games Engine with SDL2 for fun. The engine works in a way, that you can define a tileset, which accesses the engine and allows you to place tile by tile on the ...
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Efficient collision detection of sphere with wall
I'm building a first-person game where up till now the player has been represented as a dimensionless point; this makes collision detection really easy, as I can just cast a ray along their velocity ...
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Optimizing Hitboxes
Way over 90% of the performance cost seems to be coming from colliders parented to animated bones. If I disable Motion & Animation I can spawn 20 soldiers with around 1ms cost on my mid-low end ...
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How do one NPC follow a succession of target points?
I have a project that contains 1 NPC (AI) and 2 target points. In the project I can make the NPC follow any of the 2 target points, but I can not get it to follow target point 1 and then target point ...
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Movement velocity relative to a static object (Vector Maths)
I have a static object. I have a moving player.
If the player is moving directly towards the object then I want to return the value of 1.
If the player is moving directly away from the the object ...
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Rotated movement in Gear VR Unity
So the player can move in four direction - forward, backward, right and left. But the forward direction should be from wherever he turns his gear VR controller.
I have tried the below code, but when ...
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Changing controls in a new scene
I currently have a 2.5D platformer in the works for a college project, and the character can be moved with left and right. However, when entering a particular new scene, I want the character/player to ...
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How to switch between 2 game object while having it move at the same position?
I've been trying to make 2 input which change the state of a game object into another by setting one active and another inactive alternatively. But when you're in one state and you try to input the ...
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How do you make a object that always follow another object?
I'm trying to make a game object follow another game object and switch to another when a button is pressed. But right now it just seems to change the position when the button is pressed but it doesn't ...
