I have no idea how i can make the grenade launch the player in the correct direction upon explosion and what force to apply based on said collision
#Trying to make a Grenade bullet that launches the player.
rugged steppe
grim hearth
What do you have so far?
rapid helm
Are you trying to implement rocket jumping? That's what it sounds like
That's basically just knockback. It could look something like this:
var force: float = 15.0
var knockback: Vector3 = (explosion.global_position.direction_to(player.global_position) + Vector3.UP)
This is my implementation of it, which is simple but it works. In Team Fortress 2, Valve added a slight amount of upward force to explosion-based knockback to facilitate launching players so that's why I have Vector3.UP here
And then on the actor that you're pushing, in this case the player, you'd do something like this:
player.velocity += ((force * knockback))
Im doing it in 2d so do i just replace vector3 with vector 2?
rapid helm
That's right, it's the same concept
You find the direction between the explosion and the object being hit by the explosion, and you use that as the directional component of your knockback vector
And combine that with force as the magnitude
The Vector3.UP part is optional, and for 2D I would probably only use it in a sidescroller type game
rugged steppe
Thanks!