Sliding body

Game Mechanics
#1

Hello.

I want to ask if there is a way to make a sliding body using XPAL and JOODE. I mean that the body can’t bounce. It would be nice to prevent it from rotating, too. If I have success on solving this problem, my game’s development will speed up a lot.

Lucas.

#2

Any ideas?

#3

I don’t know XPAL, but… of course! Simply set contact bounciness to 0 and friction to something very low…

#4

What methods should I call to put these values into SurfaceParameters?

#5

This is not an XPAL problem. The SurfaceParameters are simply forwarded to JOODE. JOODE currently honors the following parameters:

  • bounce
  • bounce_vel
  • fdir1

“bounce” is the bounciness and "bounce_vel is the velocity vector of the bouncing. I have no idea, what fdir is. Maybe it’s something about friction. Hey, JOODE-experts! Are there any other parameters, that we should forward. How do I set the friction in JOODE?

And as far as my experience says, the changing the bounciness value doesn’t have any effect. Would be cool to get this working.

Marvin