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How to calculate a ball throw?
i want to make a game in which you can point at a location in the map and a tool will be thrown there with and parabola curve but i could not think of a way to do this in roblox
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https://developer.roblox.com/articles/Bezier-curves https://developer.roblox.com/articles/Raycasting those two wiki pages can help you Igoralexeymarengobr 365 — 5y
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https://scriptinghelpers.org/blog/modeling-a-projectiles-motion theres a page in the news section Fad99 286 — 5y
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there is easy way to do it.
- Roblox has gravity, when the ball moves, the gravity will pull the ball to the ground.
- You set a speed to the ball, the ball will move through the space without your control.
so one script
ball.Velocity = directionVector * speed
-- something like Vector3.new(0.5,0.2,0.5) * 200
will make your ball fly.
However, it you have to make the tool hit that target, it will not be easy. you need to build the formula,
- calculate how many seconds it takes the ball from current height to hit the ground
- how fast the speed needs to be in order for the ball to reach the target in that many seconds you just calculated above.
- make sure you ball fly out flat, if you throw the ball up an angle, you just make the calculation more complicated.