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Grook

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Posted: 6th May 2016 17:44

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Have their been any updates recently (last 12 months) on Box2D physics at all?

I thought I'd revisit an old project that I dumped because of a particular issue, tried again using latest AppGameKit and it's still the same. Problem in a nutshell is that objects colliding with other objects at shallow angles don't rebound at a shallow angle, they just slide off the object. Anybody know a way to work around this?

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Posted: 7th May 2016 07:39

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Have you got any code to show the configuration? It could be that you need to adjust friction, restitution, mass and gravity to get the effect you want. It is also very dependent on the physics scale you use.

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Posted: 7th May 2016 10:40

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Cheers BatVink, I have been playing with those variables but I can't seem to make it behave better (though I can make it behave worse!). I'll put something together...

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Posted: 7th May 2016 11:58

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Here's a small sample to show the "issue".

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SetDisplayAspect          ( 1.3333 )
SetPhysicsScale           ( 0.2 )
SetPhysicsDebugOn        ( )
SetPhysicsGravity         ( 0, 0 )

liBall = CreateSprite(0)
SetSpriteColor(liBall, 200, 0, 0, 255 )
SetSpriteSize(liBall, 2, -1 )
SetSpriteOffset(liBall, GetSpritewidth(liBall)/2.0, GetSpriteHeight(liBall)/2.0)
SetSpriteShape(liBall, 1)
SetSpritePhysicsOn(liBall, 2)
SetSpritePhysicsMass(liBall, 100.1)
SetSpritePhysicsRestitution( liBall, 1.0 )
SetSpritePhysicsAngularDamping( liBall, 0.0 )
SetSpritePhysicsCanRotate(liBall,1)
SetSpritePhysicsFriction(liBall,0.0)
SetSpritePhysicsDamping(liBall,0.0)
SetSpritePositionByOffset( liBall, 80, 50 )

// Change the 1 to something higher and it WILL rebound off the wall
SetSpritePhysicsImpulse( liBall, 80, 50, 1, 20 )

do
    

    Print( ScreenFPS() )
    Sync()
loop

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BatVink

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Posted: 7th May 2016 12:22

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I would be tempted to say there is some kind of bug or inaccuracy here. I can't get the ball to "unstick" from the wall once it hits it. I is as if it has made a rounding error somehow and can't reverse the direction.
I tried it hitting all 4 walls but they all experience the same problem. I changed all of the parameters without success.
The only odd parameter you have it the mass, which seems very heavy. But changing it doesn't solve the problem anyway.

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Grook

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Posted: 7th May 2016 20:51

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Yeah, sorry, was playing around with the mass, forgot to change it back.

Thanks for looking at it anyway. Any chance Paul could take a look I wonder? Is there a procedure to follow for reporting issues?

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Paul Johnston

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Posted: 14th May 2016 16:45

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It looks like Box2D has a minimum velocity for elastic collisions of 1 unit per second. Since your physics scale is 0.2 this means that if GetSpritePhysicsVelocityX returns below 5 then it will not bounce. You can work around this by adjusting your physics scale, the following seems to work

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SetDisplayAspect          ( 1.3333 )
SetPhysicsScale           ( 1 )
SetPhysicsDebugOn        ( )
SetPhysicsGravity         ( 0, 0 )
 
liBall = CreateSprite(0)
SetSpriteColor(liBall, 200, 0, 0, 255 )
SetSpriteSize(liBall, 2, -1 )
SetSpriteOffset(liBall, GetSpritewidth(liBall)/2.0, GetSpriteHeight(liBall)/2.0)
SetSpriteShape(liBall, 1)
SetSpritePhysicsOn(liBall, 2)
SetSpritePhysicsMass(liBall, 1.1)
SetSpritePhysicsRestitution( liBall, 1.0 )
SetSpritePhysicsAngularDamping( liBall, 0.0 )
SetSpritePhysicsCanRotate(liBall,1)
SetSpritePhysicsFriction(liBall,0.0)
SetSpritePhysicsDamping(liBall,0.0)
SetSpritePositionByOffset( liBall, 80, 50 )

// scale has increased by 5 times, but impulse needs to increase by about 25 times to reach the same velocity 
SetSpritePhysicsImpulse( liBall, 80, 50, 25, 500 )
 
do
     
	print(GetSpritePhysicsVelocityX(liBall))
    Print( ScreenFPS() )
    Sync()
loop

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Grook

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Posted: 16th May 2016 12:49

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I appreciate the response Paul, thank you. Useful information too.
I'm still struggling with it in my main project even though I've used the same config as the example but it could be down to me missing something. I'll work further on it.

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