koobas.hobune.stream
Line renderer projectile trajectory in 3D world
Hello,
I'm having a trouble with a script to calculate de ball trajectory of the cannons in my game.
I have a root object, inside him are the cannon mesh and a empty transform called point that I use for position and rotation when instantiate the ball on shoots.
I use a linerender on that point and a control script on the root to calculate the trajectory and shoot the cannon when needed.
My problem is the trajectory calculation, I already successful calculate it and it works fine, but it is a script that only 100% if my game was 2D, but the game is 3D.
So when I rotate the root in the Y axis the line renderer rotates too, but its not in the right location anymore, some codes tests make it off-set from the point's origin and other makes the curvature of the parabola changes too without changing the power of the shoot and not the right forward from point.
The actual code:
Vector3 vel = point.forward * power;
//Vector3 vel = point.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, 0, power));
Vector3 pVelocity = vel / 1;
float velocity = Mathf.Sqrt((pVelocity.y * pVelocity.y) + (pVelocity.z * pVelocity.z));
float angle = Mathf.Atan2(pVelocity.y, pVelocity.z);
float fTime = 0;
lineRenDebug.positionCount = numOfTrajectoryPoints;
for (int i = 0; i < numOfTrajectoryPoints; i++) {
float dx = velocity * fTime * Mathf.Cos(angle);
float dy = velocity * fTime * Mathf.Sin(angle) - (Physics2D.gravity.magnitude * fTime * fTime / 2.0f);
Vector3 pos = new Vector3(0, dy, dx);
//Vector3 pos = new Vector3(transPonta.position.x, dy, dx);
//Vector3 finalPos = Vector3.Scale(point.forward, pos) + point.position;
//Vector3 finalPos = point.TransformDirection(point.position + pos);
Vector3 finalPos = point.position + pos;
lineRenDebug.SetPosition(i, finalPos);
fTime += 0.15f;
if (finalPos.y < -2f) {
lineRenDebug.positionCount = i;
break;
}
}
The comments are some changes that I tried and not worked.
Someone can try to help me? Or a tip that something that I'm missing here.
Thanks.
Those things work a little different in three dimensions. When calculating the magnitude of the velocity vector, you're only taking the y and z coordinates into account, but as soon as you rotate your cannon, you need x as well. Take a look at Vector3.magnitude, which is an already implemented method to get the magnitude of a vector.
Thanks for the answer man. Did you mean to uses pVelocity.magnitude to assign float velocity? I tested it but not works too. I understand when you talk about the need of take into account the X so. I think that something are missing but don't know what. I imagined that the point.forward would be enough for take into account all axes. Only if I'm transfor$$anonymous$$g the results in wrong way.
Yes, that's what I meant. What that method does is to simply return sqrt(x² + y² + z²), which is the magnitude of the vector (x, y, z) in three-dimensional space. That way you don't have to implement that formula yourself all the time. I recommend checking out the Vector3 class, as there are several other useful methods as well. I don't really know what your other code exactly does, but there's probably something missing a third coordinate as well.
This might help you though: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7y6kgq2hkdrujkv/2017-09-21%2004.10.08.jpg?dl=0
It is the formula for the position of a falling object m (without drag) with the initial speed fwd, the gravity g and the time parameter t. In your case, fwd would be pVelocity, and t would be fTime.
Ok, thank you, I will try this formula to confirm.
