ball rolling movement system

[safe quest]

i have a game link on the inspo, in essence i want to recreate this movement, with the character being a ball

https://www.roblox.com/games/12311686019/The-absorving-ball

i am not entirely sure where to start, i tried making it a startercharacter, i tried welding a ball to the player, but neither was quite what im looking for

any guidance helps

also for reference i am a cs student and know how to code i just havent worked with roblox in a really long time and have no idea whats the best way to go about this

most of the forums also suggest the like "marble" movement system which isnt what im looking for

[jolly dagger]

is that an ellipse kind of movement

[blazing lantern]

I have some marble physics

You get a marble when u join the game

This is really messy but

Server

Then controlling on the client is like

And make Humanoid stand or set its state to Physics

Those Raycast Positions are for jumping but depends on how precise u wanna be ig

I would change quite a bit if I remade this now, and never got it to a state where I would say its completed lol

like the movement not even using deltaTime 💀

[safe quest]

thats pretty interesting

it doesnt look all that awful

[blazing lantern]

The physics are like this
https://medal.tv/games/roblox-studio/clips/1ObZyeb3Fspq_T/d1337KYSeKBm?invite=cr-MSxJTzcsMzg5MDM2ODAs

[safe quest]

and i like some of the ideas

[blazing lantern]

Why did I get double flagged lol

[safe quest]

lol not sure

thats pretty cool though

do you happen to know how i could actually make the character itself a ball?

or at least make it seem that way

https://www.roblox.com/games/5815351317/Marble-Chaos#!/about

[blazing lantern]

Mine is just welded inside the ball

[safe quest]

this game is another one where the movement is kinda what im looking for

yeah that makes sense

[blazing lantern]

Mine is based off my friends game

[safe quest]

yeahh

[blazing lantern]

https://www.roblox.com/games/162537373/Super-Blocky-Ball

This game has the best marble physics

imo

But too complex for me to make lolll

When I made the marble physics I showed it was my first time making any custom movement so it took me quite a while to research and figure out stuff too

[jolly dagger]

I think i have a system similar to this

[blazing lantern]

Noice

[safe quest]

yeahhh somethiong like that

turning the player into the ball yknow

[blazing lantern]

I think there is a sanic ball game the is uncopylocked but its super broken

https://www.roblox.com/games/56389082/Sanicball-Uncopylocked

Found it lol

I think I looked at it before and was too complex for me to understand + some things were broken

But that has a character as ball

[jolly dagger]

the rolling comes from ```lua
local instance : BasePart = self.Instance
local offset = (self._LastPosition - instance.Position) * Vector3.new(1, 0, 1)
local distance = offset.Magnitude

if distance > 0.01 then
    -- Axis of rotation perp to yAxis
    local axis = offset:Cross(Vector3.yAxis)
    self._orientationCF = CFrame.fromAxisAngle(axis, 2 * distance / instance.Size.Z) * self._orientationCF
end

instance.Torso.C0 = self._orientationCF * CFrame.Angles(0, 2*math.pi, 0)

moving it via vectorforce ```lua
function CharacterPhysics:Move(moveVector)
local desiredVelocityXZ = moveVector * SPEED
local currentVelocityXZ = self.Instance.AssemblyLinearVelocity * Vector3.new(1,0,1)
local accel = (desiredVelocityXZ - currentVelocityXZ) * 5
local Force = self.Instance:GetMass() * (accel:Dot(accel) > _accelMaxSqrd and accel.Unit * _accelMax or accel)
self:SetForce(self.MoveForce, Force)
end

[blazing lantern]

Math 😢

[hasty crater]

you can make starter characters

if you insert a model into StarterPlayer named "StarterCharacter" then each time you spawn as the model

[safe quest]

i tried it yeah

the rolling of the character and everything was fine but the movement was still choppy like walking around with a humanoid

[hasty crater]

fork the player module

and remove the movement related stuff

when you're playing the game go into the "Players" service, select your player go into "PlayerScripts" and copy the player module

[safe quest]

i used AssemblyLinearVelocity and it works fine for movement

now its just working out how to get the character to look how i imagine