Bug/featue. physics, moving spinning objects dont curve

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Hi,

This actually isn’t a limitation of physics or a bug, but is instead how physics works.

Mythbusters did a whole segment on this a while back explaining this by using the movie “Wanted” as an example. If you’ve not seen the film the story involves being able able to sling your gun to get bullets to curve around corners as part of it’s story.

To better illustrate the Bernoulli and Magnus principles to explain why a curveball can be thrown with a baseball.

Even though in the Bernoulli and Magnus principles there is air that affects the curving baseball and in UE4 we do have the “Wind Directional Source” this will not currently affect physics actors.

Wind Directional Source may later on work with physics actors but at the moment it is not planned.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask!

Tim