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Phoenix King
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2009 04:15
This is probably a stupid question, but I played The Grand Machines, a Dark Physics demo game, and found it really fun, so now I want to try my hand at a game like that. I was thinking of using a character controller for the ball, but I'm not sure how I would go about doing that. Can I apply friction and such to a character controller? Also, I don't know how to make the ball rotate when it moves. When I use XRotate Object the ball just rotates in place. Anyone know how to do this?

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HowDo
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2009 13:59
only phy commands can move an object, check out the FPS demo to see how that does it.

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Phoenix King
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2009 00:41
Thanks. I decided not to use a character controller, since it looks like you have to make its speed 0 once you stop moving it, and I want gravity and friction to play a part. Now I'm using a rigid body dynamic sphere, and it's okay, but the problem is that when I want to make it move I have to set the linear velocity, but doing that removes the forces of gravity and friction. How can I not take that away and at the same time move the sphere? Is it even possible?


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ICERGB
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2009 01:26
hmmm

Something like this?

Phoenix King
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2009 23:34
Thank you so much! It works perfectly. That really helps me a lot.

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