My game main player is sometime moving and some time in game play remain at same position. I have added trail renderer as child gameobject but when player is moving only that time trail get drawn as player stop its movement trail slowly become invisible.
This thing I don't want, I want always at least some trail get drawn with player. But how to do this?
To make the trail persist, increase the "How long does the trail take to fade out." docs - trailRenderer time
Now the trail stays longer/forever. It won't vanish when you move a lot, too.
Maybe you want distance-vanish instead of time vanish.
You can iterate over the points and compare distances. then dissolve them.
I think what you need is a particle system with the trail renderer module activate. For the effect you showed you could make it sending a single particle in the downward direction and using a trail to follow it.
Edit: Here is an image showing where the module is. You will need to tweak a little while to get your desired effect but it looks doable. Have fun!
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So I've animated my spaceship. With it's previous rigid form I've got a particle system coming out of it's wings. Now that it's animated, I still want those particles to follow all of it's wings movements, but the particles don't move along with the animations, even being parented with the gameobject's wings, showcase video, 19seconds: https://youtu.be/XJNjT4s4X6I
How can I make those particles move along with it's wings movements? Thanks
I would try to parent them with the bone of the armature, I don't remember if it worked for me though, but what I did is to add an empty in the modeling program to follow the animation and export it, so I can parent it to the things I needed, for you It would be the Particle System.
Kinda what the title says, I have a "wall" made out of multiple segments specifically for modular purposes. I have a contactTestBitmask that forces the player to stop moving in the direction of the wall once collided, but, if you slide along the wall to another segment, the player just rolls straight through it. I cannot do a collisionBitmask as the player runs fast enough to "phase" through the walls. I also cannot do collision as my camera and lighting are also dependent on the player's movement and position, and will not interfere with the walls (I think). If anyone could help point me in the right direction to allow me to make solid modular walls, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Figured out the source of my problem, contact IS happening, I just have wonky flags and the system doesn't like that. I need a contact currently happening method, I guess
I want to create a circular room in a 2D level. How can I handle this problem?
My thought process was to break the level into chunks and move their position depending on where the player currently is. This would allow the level to wrap around depending on where the player travels. I can do this manually with each part but i'm looking for a better solution that can handle this programatically. I'm open to better ways to solve this problem as well.
Is the space 2D? if so, you could place two invisible colliders at the extremities of the room (one at the beginning and one at the end), and change the player's position when he collides with them. To ensure that the transition is smooth, place them a little outside of the camera space: the player won't be rendered during transition, and you would obtain a teleport effect from side to side.
As another suggestion, you can lock the player to being in the center chunk with a camera just showing that chunk. Everytime he gets through a collider on the end or the start of the middle platform you delete the opposite side platform and place it in the far end of the platform the player is now seeing, effectively making the new platform as the middle one.
I would like to move a tile with drag and drop in Unity 2D. The tile is a sprite. The scene is an 'Unblock me' or 'Blocked in' like gameplay.
Because the tiles in real life correspond to physical objects it seemed be to a good idea to model them with colliders and rigidbody. The border of the table surrunded with invisible colliders. I hoped these will constrain the moves of the tiles realistic, when the player moves them.
Then I implemented a simple (mouse based) drag and drop behavior which is worked perfectly except the moved tile penetrates to other tiles and the border, and sometimes jumps over them. Then I learned if I am overriding physics by explicitly setting transforms position (which I do exactly in my drag and drop implementation), this will happen. OK I accept, I should set only forces, ect. on rigidbody never directly the position.
Now the question:
I am stuck here. I still want to drag and drop like user experience, and some realistic visual result. When in the real life a player moves a tile, it seems it is "glued" to its finger. How can I achieve this (ot at least similar) with just applying forces? Any suggestions or point similar existing sample/blog code?
(I know as a backup plan I can omit all the physics and constrain the tile positions by code, and create some tweens to move the tiles. Is the real solution (what I am asking for) so complicated I should vote on this backup plan?)
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According to comments I've added a video:
There is nothing wrong with the way you are manipulating your dragging. The beauty of developing is being able to do things in your own way. If it works for your game, then don't fret.
Now, i recommend:
Create a new physic material. Assets > Create > Physic Material
Set your new physic material inspector settings both to 0
Attach the physic material to all your wall object colliders. This should allow for your object being dragged to move smoothly against the walls without chopping.
Do a check to see if your mouse is over another collider. If so, then stop the movement in that direction.
Since your movements seem to always be on a single axis, on collision, tell your object to snap to the edge of the wall object. You know the Wall position and scales, also you have the position and scales of the object being dragged. with that you can write a function that will offset it to the correct position when the collision occurs.
Let me know if any of that works out :P
I have a simple project built with Cocos2D and Chipmunk. So far it's just a Ball (body, shape & sprite) bouncing on the Ground (a static line segment at the bottom of the screen).
I implemented the ccTouchesBegan/Moved/Ended methods to drag the ball around.
I've tried both:
cpBodySlew(ballBody, touchPoint, 1.0/60.0f);
and
ballBody->p = cgPointMake(touchPoint.x,touchPoint.y);
and while the Ball does follow my dragging, it's still being affected by gravity and it tries to go down (which causes velocity problems and others).
Does anyone know of the preferred way to Drag an active Body while the physics simulation is going on?
Do I need somehow to stop the simulation and turn it back on afterwards?
Thanks!
Temporarily remove the body from the space.
If you want the object to have inertia when you release it, that's a different story. The cleanest way is to attach a fairly stiff spring between the ball and a temporary sensor body that moves under the control of your finger. When you let go with your finger, the ball will retain whatever kinematics it had while you were dragging it. Be sure not to remove the ball from the space in this case.
You aren't updating the velocity of the object when you aren't using cpBodySlew(). That is why it falls straight down.
A better way to do it is to use a force clamped pivot joint like the official demos do to implement mouse control. http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/source/browse/trunk/Demo/ChipmunkDemo.c#296