Can't jump

[full nacelle]

How do you make a rigidbody jump, I've tried like 50 different things and it hasn't worked.

[fickle panther]

Could you show an example of trying to get a rigidbody to jump and it not working?

i.e. show the scripts and nodetree and anything else relevant

We can't help much more than pointing you to the platformer tutorial without any more details

[high venture]

CharacterBody3D's better for character control purposes.

Or general control. RigidBodies are CharacterBodies but with much less control (like no Move and Slide)

[full nacelle]

Character body 3d?

What's that?

[high venture]

Search up character in the node search box

[full nacelle]

What does it do?

[full nacelle]

extends RigidBody3D

var on_ground = true

func _process(_delta):
if Input.is_action_pressed("Left"):
apply_force(Vector3(-10,0,0))

elif Input.is_action_pressed("Right"):
    apply_force(Vector3(10,0,0))

if Input.is_action_pressed("Jump"):
    if on_ground == true:
        apply_force(Vector3(0,400,0))
        on_ground = false

Issue is, I'm not sure how to detect when on ground

[fickle panther]

Haha, I'm pretty sure characterbody does that for you

[full nacelle]

so there is no way for a rigidbody to detect ground?

[fickle panther]

You can but you'll need to code it yourself

[full nacelle]

simple or no?

[fickle panther]

Well there's a whole spectrum

you can do some pretty simple detection, but it will work weird in some edge cases

doing proper ground detection is more complicated

[full nacelle]

💀

[fickle panther]

Hm, rigidbody does handle its own collision though

Is there a particular reason you want rigidbody specifically?

[full nacelle]

I want it to collide with things

[fickle panther]

Characterbody collides too

[full nacelle]

oh sweet

[fickle panther]

I'd reccomend going to your rigidbody3d, right click, change type, and searching characterbody3d

[full nacelle]

I'll have to look up what a character body does

[fickle panther]

It's got a special move_and_slide() function you call that handles collision and everything for you

It allows you to specify an up vector and has a variable telling you if it's on the ground iirc

[full nacelle]

Alright I'll have to see if that works, cheers

[fickle panther]

yeah

you just call any of these functions if you're using a characterbody3d

super useful

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_characterbody3d.html here's the full docs ofc

Good luck!!

[fickle panther]

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