angular force imparted onto the player

[torpid dove]

of the player is a baseball in the form of a characterbody3D
And the baseballbat is a rigidbody.
How would i implement the force or velocity imparted on the player when colliding a rigidbody into a characterbody at points of impact on that rigid body?

I've had some issues with this before in a pinball machine...
Maybe im just missapplying nodes...

But im currently working on a jetpack game with rotating obstacles and the question came to mind.

[narrow needle]

The main problem is that a Rigidbody will treat the Characterbody as static objects and fully stop when making contact, so your baseball bat can't swing through.

If that's an issue you need the ball to be Rigidbody as well

[torpid dove]

I figured i can do some magic through smart use of the collission point if i place my origins correctly.
(after a sleepless night)
since you can calculate the speed of the bat at those point by multiplying the distance from the origin by the angular rotation speed

[narrow needle]

Rigidbodies also have a function to get the velocity at a certain point afaik

[torpid dove]

oh really!
well why didn't you say so xD (i jest)
what am i looking for if i want to find that?

[narrow needle]

😄

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_physicsdirectbodystate3d.html#class-physicsdirectbodystate3d-method-get-contact-local-velocity-at-position

There's also one for contact position. But they may not play nice with angular velocities, so your custom solution might actually work better.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/7480

[torpid dove]

my question is how i'd ever find this on my own in this case
i'm hardly ever exposed to anything beyond the scene node level.
How'd you find this?

[narrow needle]

recently stumbled upon people talking about it after being involved with godot physics for years. didnt know about it at all

this is low-level stuff, you won't be aware of

but to re-discover it i just googled "godot rigidbody get velocity at point" or something

[torpid dove]

ah, i can't hold my breath for deep-dives, that might be why

[narrow needle]

it was in some thread within the first few answers

[torpid dove]

thanks you so much then, for the glimpse!
I'll mark it solved.