Questions tagged [projectile-physics]
The motion physics of the objects sailing through the air, ranging from thrown baseballs to battleship cannonfire to falling rocks.
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help with shooting projectile along a curve path
so i been trying to find a way to shoot projectiles along a curve path . and i found this tutorial on youtube which was really good.
i also uploaded the project in case you wanted to check it out. ...
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Draw trajectory arc predictor in game
I found this tutorial on youtube and it works pretty well, but I want to add more to it.
How can I draw a smooth arc path in the game view (right now the path is only visible in the editor)?
Here ...
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Bullet Projectile Verticle Rotation
I'm very new to C# and Unity, and have been working on a projectile based weapon, and for the most part it's been working well. However, although the bullet fires facing the direction it's being shot ...
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Javelin throw projectile motion
I am trying to simulate throw of javelin using projectile motion. The basic physics of projectile motion of a point was used to position the javelin. For the rotation part, I just assumed that the ...
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Pushing Rigidbody forward doesn't go straight
I have a object that pushing rigidbody forward when it's instantiated:
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how to calculate initial Y velocity required to reach target?
I am trying to calculate the y velocity necessary for my player character to jump up and reach a y position within 1 second.
Given that my game engine is at 60fps, I am doing:
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how to predict where a ball will land?
For a game of table tennis, the goal is that when the player hits the ball, the opponent (the computer) will move to the position where the ball will land in order to hit it back to the player.
Said ...
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Projectile initial motion to hit a target position
I'm working on a 3D game where i need to shoot a projectile (arrow) in order to hit a target position. The projectile has an origin position and a motion vector v(t) where "t" is a time unit. v(t) ...
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Applied force is backward instead of forward when shooting an object
I have this FPS I'm making and I wanted to apply force to objects I shoot at however when I shoot on them, instead of going away from the camera they come towards it.
I don't get it. I could fix the ...
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Projectiles in FPS games - OpenGL
I have some experience with Blender, but now I am using Xcode 9.2 and OpenGL 4.1 on MacBook Pro. I am also attending a couple of online courses on edX.
I am developing (for fun and as an exercise) a ...
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How to randomly calculate the necessary velocity changes to reach a x,y,z target?
I am working on creating a mini vector graphics ping pong table, as described in this previous post: Trying to use 3D vectors for a 2D ping pong game
Currently, the stage I am at, I am trying to make ...
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Unity - How to calculate max distance (range) of a Projectile taking drag into account?
I am able to calculate the projectile max distance, but it only works when there is no drag applied on the spherical projectile. I used the formula for range of a projectile as follows:-
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Shooting projectiles towards mouse position in Unity 2D
I'm currently creating a scrip that handles the projectile movement and it's almost where I want it to be. Currently the script correctly instantiates the projectiles, moves the projectiles towards ...
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Projectile Aim Prediction with Acceleration
I'm trying to solve the classic shoot moving object problem but with acceleration attached to that changes it from a quadratic to quartic formula but my math skills are not this good sadly as i prefer ...
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Rifle bullets/projectiles in Unity, raycasting or rigidbody?
Hello again gamedevers :) I'm trying to create a fairly simple FPS shooter game. Im using a Rigidbody FPS Controller prefab from ...
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How can I reference the frontmost part of a mesh in my Unity code? (and help making FPS projectiles seem more real)
I have started making a PC game using Unity. It's just a test project, where I'm making as basic as possible FPS shooter.
I'm using the FPS Controller prefab, and I have also a rifle model attached ...
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Firing a simple sphere from below the camera at crosshair in the centre of the screen, with or without raycast
I have a game that spawns "enemies" within a sphere around the camera, the player moves the camera to target and simply presses the screen to fire. For now my "ammo" is simply a sphere and for visual ...
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Required initial velocity (fixed launch angle) for projectile to hit a target
The scenario:
I have an enemy tank (AI) chasing my friendly tank (player). When the enemy gets close enough he tries to shoot the player. Now the enemy prefab has an empty game object attached as a ...
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Getting launch angle for projectile given height, distance and speed in 3D [duplicate]
EDIT: This is not a duplicate as the proposed solution does not seem to work. See the bottom of this question for clarification.
I am trying to calculate the launch velocity of a ball that needs to ...
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Why aren't game bullets implemented as if they were real bullets?
Let's say I'm working on a 3D first-person shooter and the boss is a stickler for realism, and orders me to implement the bullets as tiny projectiles that travel, say, 1000 meters per second. What ...
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why collision not detection not happened in Two Sphere
I start practice 3d collision detection of sphere in OpenGl containing two sphere one sphere hit using cannon gun but collision not detect when it hit and when i debug code collision statement triger ...
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How can I recreate the movement of arrow in air?
Given two Particles A and B which forms the arrow itself, A.P an edge of it and the opposite one B.P. Like so A.P---------B.P.
const float DistArrow = 60;
Where ...
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Best practice for RTS accuracy/aim
As I'm developing a RTS game set during the Napoleonic Campaign, I've got a question about the best method to implement 'bad aim' for the AI, as the accuracy of muskets were quite terrible back then.
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Scrolling background after firing projectile
I have a projectile which I fire using the mouse coords as the direction vector which I scale with a velocity vector and add a gravity vector to complete this simple simulation.
I want to scroll the ...
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How to set rotation of a projectile in a parabolic arc in Box2D? [duplicate]
I have trouble making my projectile - in this case an arrow - rotate as it should when it's travelling in a parabolic arc. It doesn't rotate at all while travelling, only until it collides with ...
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Find Initial Velocity for Parabolic Arc with Fixed Angle that Crosses Target Position
In my game I want skeletons to occasionally lob bones at the player. The player can be anywhere in relation to the skeleton (above or below, to the left or right), and I want the skeletons to throw a ...
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finding the angle to launch a projectile at a 3d coordinates
I have a game where the user can shoot a bullet and the bullet flies through 3 dimensional space and eventually hits the ground somewhere. My question is how can I calculate the ...
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How to calculate the ideal hit of arrow?
I am trying to make the AI shoot an arrow and always hit the target. Assuming that the target is within his range I am stuck what the correct way is to do this. I search and found some solutions but ...
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How to create a projectile motion of a cannonball in top down view?
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To move the bullet with projectile motion to specific destination by touch point.
In the below image is an example of a bullet which has a projectile motion. On my observation, the bullet ...
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shooting the projectile in the way it is facing [duplicate]
I got my projectile facing the right way thanks to @S. Tarık Çetin.
But now I want it to move the direction it's facing.
I think I need to use RayCastHit2D but I am ...
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Projectile Direction Unity
I want to shoot a projectile in the direction the gun is facing.
With my current script it only shoots vertically. (I can also make it go horizontally but that's it).
This is my ...
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How to make Pong ai paddle?
I'm trying to make an ai so the paddles will move to position before the ball reaches it. I'm not sure how to go about it in this case.
Here's the game http://cssdeck.com/labs/ping-pong-game-tutorial-...
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Accelerating Missile guidence
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I'm building a simple game where two ships are launching missiles at each other in space.
Stuff got complicated when the ships started moving in a frictionless environment and the ...
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Psudo 3D(2.5D?) Projectile motion
I'm trying to simulate a ball coming at the screen with a projectile motion arc in 2d space. Is there a set of equations to deal with this. I would imagine the equation would need to take in the ...
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Guided Missile with Constant Time
I'm building a game with players and missiles.
I want to fire a missile from P1 to P2. The missile should always take exactly five seconds to reach P2. The missile should also track P2. If P2 moves ...
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Calculate initial velocity for trajectory given duration, launch angle, and distance
I need my entity to go from point A to point B with a given launch angle over a given time.
I've been able to figure out the initial velocity without the constraint of the launch angle, but I can't ...
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Collision Between SKSpriteNode and SKShapeNode
Im trying to create a collision between to objects. one is a SKSpriteNode and the other is a SKShapenode. the Code I have so far for Contact is :
func didBeginContact( contact: SKPhysicsContact) {
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How often should I calculate the position of a bullet?
In game's like Battlefield or Arma, how many times per second is the position of a bullet calculated?
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Destroy object on Collision
I have a strange problem... I need a 2D projectile to destroy itself after colliding with an object. I have used all of the different ways to do this on the internet but to no avail; the object ...
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Rigidbody Projectile Being Suspended In Mid-Air
I am experiencing problems with Unity's Rigibody feature. Whenever I try firing a projectile, it gets suspended in mid-air. The projectiles are stored in an object pool. Below is the code and images ...
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Calculating initial velocities given trajectory parabola
I'm working on a volleyball game but my maths/physics knowledge isn't quite up to par. I need some help with the following problem:
The player can hit the ball from anywhere on the left of the court ...
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How can I launch a GameObject at a target if I am given everything except for its launch angle?
I am trying to launch an object at a target, given its position, its target position, the launch speed, and the gravity. I am following this formula from Wikipedia:
$$ \theta = arctan \bigg( \frac{v^...
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How to predict future position of an object(bullet sync)?
There is a multiplayer game and server sends to all clients a message when a shot happens, containing bullet position, bullet velocity and timestamp. By having timestamp, we can calculate the lag, let'...
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Timed Line Drawing
I'm trying to program a remake of the classic Missile Command Atari game from scratch, but I've run into a problem. So I have a function that can draw a line from one point to another. I figured I ...
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How to make an enemy projectile head to the player's position with constant speed
How can I dynamically set the movement speed of the X and Y of the projectile so that it moves at a constant speed when the projectile heads at the player's position? I know this has something to do ...
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Elastic Circle-Circle collision detection and response / Slime Volleyball physics
I am trying to recreate the Slime Volleyball game; however I am unsure how to go about implementing the physics of the ball movement.
The game consists of a circular ball and semi circle players that ...
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Adjust Aim Angle for Motion with Accelerating Bullet
So, here's my problem:
I have a turret attached to a ship that moves at a variable speed through my game world, shooting at the centre of another ship travelling through the game world in a possibly ...
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How can I shoot an arrow if I know the shot power and target?
I am trying to shoot an arrow at a target with a 100% success rate. Given the initial force applied to the arrow, the gravity, the location of the archer, and the location of the target, how can I do ...
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Finding collision point of moving projectile/bullet with a cube
I am programming a game in the spirit of Wolfenstein 3D (2D grid map, 1 cell = 1 cube) and I wanted to implement shootings. I didn't want the shootings to happen in one frame so, I wanted to see the ...
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How do I create a rocket projectile that is “dropped”, then accelerates toward the enemy?
I'm making an Asteroids-like game. I've successfully implemented linear bullets.
Now I want to add some rocket-styled bullets, with a certain flight path:
The rockets should be "dropped" back first, ...
