HelpProgrammingPhysics
I’m new to game making, and I’m having troubles making a movable box physics.
Among the many things that don’t work correctly, these are the main ones:
The box rolls instead of sliding
When it rolls, sometimes it kidnaps the player with it and launches it in the air (prob because the player walks on the box while it’s rolling and the game starts freaking out)
When many boxes are piled up, they stop moving for no apparent reason (even on flat floor)
I have no idea on where to start to fix any of these problems.
When the game starts, all the blocks go into a “pushable” group
This is the code that I have right now in the player:
#MOVEMENT
#use of rays to stop getting stuck on 1 pixel jumps
var direction = Input.get_axis("ui_left", "ui_right")
if direction:
velocity.x = direction * SPEED
if velocity.x > 0:
$Sprite2D.flip_h = false
$lowRay.target_position.x = 15
$highRay.target_position.x = 15
else:
$Sprite2D.flip_h = true
$lowRay.target_position.x = -15
$highRay.target_position.x = -15
if($lowRay.is_colliding() and !$highRay.is_colliding()): #ledge detection
velocity.y = -40
else:
velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, 0, SPEED)
#PUSHING BLOCKS
for i in get_slide_collision_count():
var collision = get_slide_collision(i)
var collision_box = collision.get_collider()
if collision_box.is_in_group("pushable") and abs(collision_box.get_linear_velocity().x) < MAX_PUSH:
collision_box.apply_central_impulse(collision.get_normal() * -PUSH_FORCE)
move_and_slide()
My plan for the game was to make boxes change materials (wood, iron, helium…) so they need different properties. I also want some of those boxes to not get pushed ever if they are made of a heavy material.
I tried deactivating “Can Sleep”, but it seemed to do nothing.
I think the problem might be somehow the collision with the floor, and it gets stuck in 0 pixel gaps from 2 different blocks somehow.
The Lock Rotation fixes the rolling problem, but if possible I would like the blocks to still be able to roll, just not while I push them. (like when they go down a slope, they’ll be slightly rotated to have all the bottom side of the box touch the slope)
What I mean is by activating the lock rotation I lose the slope mechanic, while deactivating it I lose the sliding mechanic. Isn’t there something in the middle?
I also found out that even single blocks get stuck on the floor randomly, so it must be something about the contact with the floor
UPDATE: I found out that the problem that causes literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of the problems I listed before is the way I did the floor (I used a tilemap where each tile had a physics layer).
I’ll try generating the floor hitbox programmatically and update you all on the result.
Ok, I changed the whole hitbox of the floor with a single big collisionPolygon and the blocks no longer get stuck on thin air.
The rolling problem on the other hand still stands. My new theory is that I push the block from the top, causing it to roll. If anyone has any idea on how to fix, all the ideas are appreciated.
Ok I have no idea on how to fix it, if anyone has any proposal just give it to me and i’ll try it
