I am learning game development and I want to replicate an “air hockey” game like this one:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/750330/Air_Hockey/
I want to control the disk with the mouse and with the disk, I can collide with the puck to score a goal.
My issue is that sometimes the puck goes through the wall like in the following picture (the puck is the yellow game object and the black game object is the disk):
This happens in the corner of the table or when there is a high velocity.
Another example where the puck is completely inside the walls:
I would like to use Unity physics to learn how to develop this game so I created the following game objects:
the table: collider
4 borders: collider
the disk: collider + rigidbody with collision detection “continuous”
the puck: collider + kinematic rigidbody + collision detection “continuous” with the following script:
void FixedUpdate()
{
Vector3 m_Input = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y"));
playerRigidbody.MovePosition(transform.position + m_Input * Time.deltaTime * moveSpeed);
}
How can I prevent the disk to go through the wall? Why is this happening?
I also changed various settings in Edit --> project settings --> physics --> Default max depenetration velocity
I am following the best way to develop this kind of game (having a kinematic disk controlled with the script I write before)?
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thank you
A kinematic rigidbody will not be affected by collisions with other physics objects (such as the walls in your game). As mentioned in the Unity documentation:
If isKinematic is enabled, [...] collisions [...] will not affect the rigidbody anymore.
Because of this, you can't rely on the physics simulation to handle this interaction. One strategy you can use here is to define bounds within which the player disc is allowed to move, then use Mathf.Clamp to constrain the position of the disc to prevent it from moving out of them.
So with a few additions, your code might become:
public Vector3 minBounds;
public Vector3 maxBounds;
public float discRadius;
void Awake(){
minBounds = new Vector3(minBounds.x + discRadius, 0, minBounds.z + discRadius);
maxBounds = new Vector3(maxBounds.x - discRadius, 0, maxBounds.z - discRadius);
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
Vector3 m_Input = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y"));
Vector3 newPosition = transform.position + m_Input * Time.deltaTime * moveSpeed;
Vector3 clampedPosition = new Vector3(
Mathf.Clamp(newPosition.x, minBounds.x, maxBounds.x),
newPosition.y,
Mathf.Clamp(newPosition.z, minBounds.z, maxBounds.z));
playerRigidbody.MovePosition(clampedPosition);
}
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I'm currently trying to create a multiplayer game using mirror!
So far I've been successful in creating a lobby and set up a simple character model with a player locomotion script I've taken and learnt inside out from Sebastian Graves on YouTube (you may know him as the dark souls III tutorial guy)
This player locomotion script uses unity's package 'Input System' and is also dependent on using the camera's .forward and .right directions to determine where the player moves and rotates instead of using forces on the rigidbody. This means you actually need the camera free in the scene and unparented from the player.
Here is my HandleRotation() function for rotating my character (not the camera's rotation function):
private void HandleRotation()
{
// target direction is the way we want our player to rotate and move // setting it to 0
Vector3 targetDirection = Vector3.zero;
targetDirection = cameraManager.cameraTransform.forward * inputHandler.verticalInput;
targetDirection += cameraManager.cameraTransform.right * inputHandler.horizontalInput;
targetDirection.Normalize();
targetDirection.y = 0;
if (targetDirection == Vector3.zero)
{
// keep our rotation facing the way we stopped
targetDirection = transform.forward;
}
// Quaternion's are used to calculate rotations
// Look towards our target direction
Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection);
// Slerp = rotation between current rotation and target rotation by the speed you want to rotate * constant time regardless of framerates
Quaternion playerRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
transform.rotation = playerRotation;
}
It's also worth mentioning I'm not using cinemachine however I'm open to learning cinemachine as it may be beneficial in the future.
However, from what I've learnt and managed to find about mirror is that you have to parent the Main Camera under your player object's prefab so that when multiple people load in, multiple camera's are created. This has to happen on a Start() function or similar like OnStartLocalPlayer().
public override void OnStartLocalPlayer()
{
if (mainCam != null)
{
// configure and make camera a child of player
mainCam.orthographic = false;
mainCam.transform.SetParent(cameraPivotTransform);
mainCam.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0f, 0f, -3f);
mainCam.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);
cameraTransform = GetComponentInChildren<Camera>().transform;
defaultPosition = cameraTransform.localPosition.z;
}
}
But of course, that means that the camera is no longer independent to the player and so what ends up happening is the camera rotates when the player rotates.
E.g. if I'm in game and looking to the right of my player model and then press 'w' to walk in the direction the camera is facing, my camera will spin with the player keeping the same rotation while my player spins in order to try and walk in the direction the camera is facing.
What my question here would be: Is there a way to create a system using mirror that doesn't require the camera to be parented to the player object prefab on start, and INSTEAD works by keeping it independent in the scene?
(I understand that using forces on a rigidbody is another method of creating a player locomotion script however I would like to avoid that if possible)
If anybody can help that would be greatly appreciated, Thank You! =]
With the constraint of your camera being attached to the player you will have to adapt the camera logic. What you can do is instantiate a proxy transform for the camera and copy that transforms properties to your camera, globally, every frame. The parent constraint component might do this for you. Then do all your transformations on that proxy.
Camera script with instantiation:
Transform proxy;
void Start(){
proxy = (new GameObject()).transform;
}
void Update(){
//transformations on proxy
transform.position = proxy.position;
transform.rotation = proxy.rotation;
}
I'm trying to do a little game on mobile using Unity and I've got a problem with the rotation of a maze.
To add context :
When your moving your finger on the screen, the maze is rotating on himself. There is a ball in it and you need to make it go on a cell to win the level.
When the maze is rotating too fast, the ball falls down and go through the ground and I don't know how to fix it.
I tried to play with the gravity, colliders...
This is the same when the ball is jumping (when the maze is going up and down quickly).
For the moment I just reset the ball position when you're falling.
{
ball.transform.position = new Vector3(0, 2, 0);
maze.transform.position = Vector3.zero;
maze.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
}
Do you guys have some ideas ? Thanks
I had a similar problem in a tilt maze mini-game I worked on. Ideally implementing jkimishere's solution will work but I assume the maze is moving too fast for the collisions to register properly. You'll need to smooth the maze's rotation with a Lerp. In our case we had pressure plates with a tilt value, so it doesn't directly translate to your mobile use but perhaps give you a nudge in the right direction. We used:
public GameObject maze;
private float _lerpTime;
private bool _isRotating;
private Quaternion _startingRot, _desiredRot;
private void Awake()
{
_startingRot = maze.transform.localRotation;
}
private void Update()
{
//Don't want to move the maze if we don't ask for it
if(!_isRotating)
return;
//Lerp the maze's rotation
_lerpTime = Mathf.Clamp(_lerpTime + Time.deltaTime * 0.5f, 0f, 1f);
maze.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Lerp(_startingRot, _desiredRot, _lerpTime);
//Once the maze gets where it needs to be, stop moving it
if(affectedObject.transform.localRotation.Equals(_desiredRot)
_isRotating = false;
}
private void ActivateTilt()
{
//Set the new starting point of the rotation.
_startingRot = maze.transform.localRotation;
//However you want to calculate the desired rotation here
//Reset our lerp and start rotating again
_lerpTime = 0f;
_isRotating = true;
}
This will ease the rotation of your maze over time. So that the ball can adapt to the new collider positions.
In the rigidbody(for the ball), make the collision detection to continuous, and in the rigidbody for the maze(if you have one) set the collision detection to continuous dynamic. Hope this helps!
I think that is unavoidable if you allow the player to move the platform freely. I suggest you restrain the speed at wich the player can tilt the platform. This way, the ball will have more frames to adapt to the new slope
I have a player and a platform on my scene. The scene is in 2D.
Here are platform's components:
Here are player's components:
[]
To move the player - I use SimpleMove() method:
CharacterController controller;
public float speed = 3.0F;
void Start()
{
controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
}
void Update()
{
float movement = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
Vector2 movementVector = new Vector2(movement, 0f);
controller.SimpleMove(movementVector * speed);
}
I'm afraid what you're trying to achieve will not work as expected. Character Controller is actually intended for 3D and you're expecting it to collide with 2D colliders that works differently and most importantly are not compatible
Character Controller brings 3D capsule collider to it's object - see https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CharacterController.html
You may try to experiment with adding some 2D collider and eventually also RigiBody2D to your object. Character Controller is intended also for cases without using physics (except collisions), so if that's the case also for your 2D game, creating own character controller could be quite straight forward option as well
My 3d ball was moving continuously in the forward direction so I want to give X-rotation for this plus game player was dragging ball horizontally on the screen so for this horizontal movement, I want to give Z-rotation.
To achieve my desire, the result I have made ball parent and child game objects, where parent game object only contains collider and rigidbody and this will do the actual physical movement.
Another side, child game object only contains mesh renderer, this will do desire rotation.
Following image gives you more idea about my structure:
Ball Parent:
Ball Child:
For giving rotation to ball mesh as like parent physics ball, I have written this code:
public class BallMeshRolling : MonoBehaviour
{
private Vector3 ballLastPosition;
void Start ()
{
ballLastPosition = transform.parent.position;
}
void Update ()
{
//implementation-1
//float speed = Vector3.Distance (transform.parent.position, ballLastPosition) * 30f;
//transform.RotateAround (transform.position, Vector3.right, speed);
//implementation-2
//Vector3 differenceInPosition = (transform.parent.position - ballLastPosition).normalized;
//transform.Rotate (differenceInPosition * 10f);
//implementation-3
Vector3 differenceInPosition = (transform.parent.position - ballLastPosition).normalized * 50f;
Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(differenceInPosition);
transform.rotation = rotation;
ballLastPosition = transform.parent.position;
}
}
But none of the above ways working properly, so I expect some other better suggestions from your side.
EDIT: Overall I am trying to achieve something like this:
Catch up - Ketchapp - Highscore 1274
There is a tutorial series from Unity about rolling and moving a 3d ball that can help you to figure out the basics for your problem. Wish it could help.
Roll-a-ball tutorial in Unity Tutorials
I'm making 2D mobile game and I have a ball, but my ball doesn't have a constant moving speed. What I need to do?
When I build game on my android device, ball have a various speed. In that case, my game is not playable.
I hope that someone can help me. Thanks.
This is on my start function:
void Start () {
GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ()
.AddForce (new Vector2 (1f, 0.5f)* Time.deltaTime * force);
}
Is it a good practice if I used in code " Application.LoadLevel ("__Scena_0"); " to load existing scene when I lose " life" ? Problem happens when I lost " life " and try playing game in second chance.
My update function is about OnTriggerEnter2D when my ball hit trigger objects.
EDIT 23.12.2015. : problem solve with adding physics material (fiction 0) and adding to script:
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
...
SceneManager.LoadScene ("MainScene");
The problem is the calculation of the force vector:
new Vector2 (1f, 0.5f) * Time.deltaTime * force
You are using Time.deltaTime as a factor, which means that the applied force is not constant, but depending on the deltaTime, which is the duration of the last frame. This explains why it changes randomly.
I don't think Time.deltaTime is what you want here, try just removing the factor and adjusting the "force" factor accordingly. You should now have a constant force applied, independent from the platform you play on.
Create a new Physics Material, set friction zero and add it to your object. If your object has no friction, its speed cannot be decreased. Then, use AddForce() on Rigidbody2D to speed up.
Assuming that your ball and colliding walls have bouncy materials with no friction. Try
public float _ballSpeed = 2.5f;
Rigidbody2D _rb;
void Start()
{
_rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
_rb.velocity = Vector2.one * _ballSpeed;
}
void Update()
{
}
From this you can control ball speed through _ballSpeed
//========== OR ==========//
If you want to retain speed even after ball destruction.
Retain _ballSpeed in any global static variable.
Suppose you have a class named Globals, declare a variable like,
public class Globals
{
public static float BALL_SPEED = 2.5f;
}
Now in Ball Script
Rigidbody2D _rb;
void Start()
{
_rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
_rb.velocity = Vector2.one * Globals.BALL_SPEED;
}
void Update()
{
}