Jump Force

[inland peak]

Pretty sure it should be -2 instead of -3. Probably just a typo… Anyways what that equation does is calculate the y velocity required to make the player jump to a specific height.

@mint thistle

You can search them up, there’s 4 main kinematic equations

This is just one of them, and 3/4 of the variables are known. Meaning we can solve for the 4th

[mint thistle]

Thank you, even if I don’t know what the math means I think I understand a bit more. So if I switch the -3 to a -2 as you said it would make so the object jumps 1 unit, whatever that now is…?

[inland peak]

Yes

[inland peak]

plug in height, and gravity and you’ll figure out the initial y velocity needed to reach that height

[mint thistle]

Ohh, okay I think I understand. We first calculate the required velocity to reach the point we state in units (in this case 5) by multiplying the gravity with -2 (wich makes the number twice as large and positive) so the upwards velocity is greater than the downwards velocity and then we multiply that result with the amount of units.

@inland peak

[inland peak]

I wouldn’t worry too much about the -2, it just has to do with acceleration in general not gravity. But yeah you have the overall idea down

[mint thistle]

Sorry if my message was a mess and if it’s hard to understand, sometimes the head thinks faster than the hands can write 😅 lol

[inland peak]

No problem it’s something new

[mint thistle]

Okay, great. You helped me a lot today. I always thought these 3D movement stuff were complex but now, after today when I got a lot of help from nice people like you I finally understand it a bit better. Thank you

[inland peak]

@mint thistle here they are in case you didn’t know where I got the equation from

4 is the one that’s being used for this 😄