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Question by Stepepper · Nov 17, 2015 at 08:30 PM · slopetrigonometry

Having some troubles with making the player slide down a rail

I'm having a bit of troubles getting the right calculation on how to make a play grind down a rail.
In the game I'm making I have the player grind down a rail with his skateboard, the calculation seems right. I'm using y=mx+b as the form to calculate the position of the line, and I'm using this piece of code to calculate the slope. m in the formula:

slope = (pointB.position.y - pointA.position.y) / (pointB.position.x - pointA.position.x);

Now to make the player grind I have this piece of script:

Player.cs

 private void Grind(RaycastHit2D[] hit)
 {
     var grindObject = hit.Where(x => x.collider.tag == "grindable").FirstOrDefault();

     if (grindObject.collider != null)
     {
         grinding = true;
         var wantedTransform = transform.position;
         var grindScript = grindObject.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Grind>();
         wantedTransform.y = grindScript.GetYPosition(gameObject.transform.position.x);
         if (transform.position.y > wantedTransform.y - 0.5f && transform.position.y < wantedTransform.y + 0.5f)
         {
             transform.position = wantedTransform;            grinding = true;
         }
         else
             grinding = false;
     }
     else
         grinding = false;
 }

And the whole grind script is basically this:

 public class Grind : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public Transform pointA;
     public Transform pointB;
     public float slope;
 
     public void Start()
     {
         slope = (pointB.position.y - pointA.position.y) / (pointB.position.x - pointA.position.x);
 
         Debug.Log(slope);
     }
 
     public float GetYPosition(float playerXPos)
     {
         return (slope * playerXPos) + (pointA.position.y - pointB.position.y);
     }
 }
 

This script works perfectly for the first rail, but if I make the rail any longer or rotate it a bit, it fails to work and it makes the player float above the rail.
(Both images are the player grinding, the animations are just not set up yet.)

Does somebody know what's going on and what I'm doing wrong?

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