It been over a week since I started using defold, and I’m enjoying every bit of it a different way of doing things but I dig it, haven’t ran into any problem untill apply_force
msg.post("#collision","apply_force", {force = vmath.vector3(0,1,0) * 50000, position= go.get_world_position()})
for the proposes of learning I gave myself the objective to make a jumping ball, simple enough right but it seem not to work how I expected it to, the ball jump heights are not predictable at all, it jumps at different heights almost everytime
and get even worse when I build it for the web
with hours of debugging (like 15 min) I found out the apply-force force is some how affected by the dt (delta time) the higher the value the more force is been applied to the ball(but it kinda looks like a rock doesn’t it), I was able to fix it by multiplying the dt(delta time) with a hundred and dividing that with my directional force
Is that simple (I’m not a very technical guy so please bear🐻 with me)
msg.post("#collision","apply_force", {force = (vmath.vector3(0,1,0) * 50000) / (dt * 100), position= go.get_world_position()})
And boom
It works even for my web build
Jumps at the same height every time I don’t know if this is how the defold physics engine was supposed to work or it’s a bug but anyways this is the way to fix it
I hope someone found this helpful