Completely reset dynamics

[TailsetSonic]

Hello,

I'm implementing a specific action when my character is jumping. While jumping, when I push the jump button in the airs, my character dash on the closer targeted ennemy. For that, I set the linear velocity of my character to 0, I disable the gravity and then I add a linear inpulse. Logicaly my character's trajectory must be a line but it isn't. I think there still is inertia force or something like that. Is there any solution to completely reset all the forces on the object ?

[broozar]

have you tried setting it into a kinematic state? then wait a frame (sendevent), then set kinematic to false again.

http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/doc/api/dynamics-setKinematic

PS: for a full stop after a jump, i usually just do a velocity=0 call.

[TailsetSonic]

Ok I'll try with that. But if velocity=0 stops my object, why my trajectory, after a linear impulse, is not rectilinear ? =/

After test : The result if better but someone it still has the same problem

particularly in this case :

OnEnterState :

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local tX, tY, tZ = object.getTranslation ( this.getObject ( ), object.kGlobalSpace )
local aX, aY, aZ = object.getXAxis ( this.getObject ( ), object.kGlobalSpace )

this.nTargetX ( tX + aX * 14 )
this.nTargetY ( tY - 1 )
this.nTargetZ ( tZ + aZ * 14 )

dynamics.enableGravity ( this.hDyn ( ), false )
   
local vX = this.nTargetX ( ) - tX
local vY = this.nTargetY ( ) - tY
local vZ = this.nTargetZ ( ) - tZ
dynamics.setKinematic ( this.hDyn ( ), true )
dynamics.setLinearVelocity ( this.hDyn ( ), vX * 25, vY *25, vZ *25, object.kGlobalSpace )


OnLoop :

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local tX, tY, tZ = object.getTranslation ( this.getObject ( ), object.kGlobalSpace )
local dX = this.nTargetX ( )
local dY = this.nTargetY ( )
local dZ = this.nTargetZ ( )

local object_dist = math.sqrt ( math.pow ( dX - tX, 2 ) + math.pow ( dY - tY, 2 ) + math.pow ( dZ - tZ, 2 ) )
   
log.message ( "Dist : ", object_dist ) 
if ( object_dist < 1.3 )
then
    this.InTheAirs ( ) -- state change
end


And finally sometime I get that :

[o Message ] {Scripting }Dist : 8.54269
[o Message ] {Scripting }Dist : 3.54424
[o Message ] {Scripting }Dist : 2.22447
[o Message ] {Scripting }Dist : 4.93043
[o Message ] {Scripting }Dist : 9.88928
[...]

[TailsetSonic]

Hello,

I still have the same problem.
I don't understand ... It seems to have a little force that push it up or down (it depends). Is it a bug ? Because of that my character sometime miss the targeted point and so continues his trajectory. He slow down to stop (because of the air resistance ?) and then he goes continuously and slowly up or down

[DoctorPepper]

A lot of weird stuff going on in ur code. for instance you are setting Vx to
(( tX + aX * 14 ) - tX )*25 . That looks rlly strange.

Wouldnt it be easier to get a directional vector, set velocity to 0 and add an impulse from there. Also dont forget to disable rotation, or it will mess up everything

so, if A (x,y,z) is position of the character and B (v,w,p) is translation of the target.
Then directional vector N is (v-x,w-y,p-z). If C is some constant, probably a few k.

dynamics.setLinearVelocity ( ... 0,0,0 ... )
dynamics.enableGravity ( ... false )
dynamics.addLinearImpulse ( ... N * C ... )

All there is to it. Or am i missing something?

[TailsetSonic]

That's exactly what I make. Maybe it's the rotation so. I changed the way I do that anyway. If I still have this problem at a moment, disabling the rotation, i'll tell you.

Thanks

[DoctorPepper]

Its nothing like what i said.

You never set the speed to 0 in the code you posted
You never get targets coordinates
You never actually add linear impuls (force) dynamics.addLinearImpulse (
You are using a directional vector asif its a velocity vector, disregarding the fact that v=dr/dt
Calculation for custom velocity (which you shouldnt be doing) doesnt make any sense.

So in a way, what i wrote is exactly what you didnt do

[TailsetSonic]

I don't really understand the problem, that doesn't explains why this happened.