ball rolling physics

Hi all, any tips on ball rolling physics? John Pickford had this all worked out ages ago and the code was posted on these forums, however I think the forums have been trimmed since.

Basically, if you roll a ball hard enough, it will roll up and over, then drop.

Imagine a C shape and the ball: .

As the ball rolls towards the shape:
_
(_ .

_
(_.

It will curve round (if initially going fast enough) and come back the way it came, upside down.

_ .
(_


any tips? :)

Rob,

I asked a similar question a while ago, have a look a Dark Eagles code, if you give the ball enough energy it will do what you wanted.

http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/postdisplay.cgi?forum=Forum14&topic=000743

I have an old project here which uses rolling ball physics.
Most of the rolling ball code came from the archives way back when.



I have stripped the textures. Therefore the level looks a bit bare but it should be enough to get you going.

Use the MOUSE to move the ball around.
LMB=Jump
RMB=Reset view

Download Marble

Thanks Flynn & DE :)

Look up ^

Thanks Syntax :D

Just remember with any even basic physics simulation you want you're objects transformation vector to be global. Or it kills the whole effect.

Thanks but I already have it working now :) I need it for the strangest thing (as always).

You need it so you can go up half-pipes? :)

yeah ;)

snowboard balls?

Tracer

lol